How to Teach Rebikov The Bear

Today we’re talking about how to teach The Bear by Vladimir Rebikov. This is a great example of a late elementary/early intermediate piece that evocatively uses 20th-century idioms like the whole tone scale and the interval of a tritone.

Recommended editions:

• Piano Adventures Lesson book 3B (Randall & Nancy Faber)

• Piano Safari Repertoire 3 (Katherine Fisher & Julie Knerr Hague)

• Masterwork Classics 3 (Jane Magrath)

• Festival Collection 2

Syllabus listings for difficulty level:

• Illinois AIM Level 4

• Jane Magrath Level 3

Related videos:

1. Play by Béla Bartók from For Children Volume 1

2. Sonatina in A Minor by Dmitri Kabalevsky

Topics highlighted in the video below:

• Broken octaves

• Articulation: staccatos and tenutos

• Whole steps / whole tone scale

• Lots of accidentals

• Double 3rds

• pesante marking - heavy like a lumbering bear (dynamics seem to be editorial)

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