Repertoire Manager. A practice companion for musicians
We musicians face a familiar challenge. We spend weeks mastering a piece until it becomes part of us. Then months pass as we explore new pieces, and when we return to play that work, we feel less certain in parts that were once solid, sensing the piece has begun to fade from our memory.
This is part of musical life. Repertoire that once felt solid becomes less reliable without regular attention. Pieces we’ve performed well need refreshing when we return to them months later.
Memory and Music
Memory research, including Hermann Ebbinghaus’s work on forgetting curves and modern spaced repetition studies, shows that reviewing material at increasing intervals helps move knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. This principle, used in learning tools like Anki, works well for maintaining musical repertoire.
Repertoire Manager tracks when each piece was last practiced and uses spaced repetition timing to suggest when pieces might benefit from attention. A piece learned last week needs review at a different interval than one mastered months ago.
Progress Made Visible
Musicians can see at a glance the memory retention level and flow/tempo progress for every work in their library, along with whether pieces are candidates for future learning, currently being learned, or already mastered.
Watching a difficult piece progress from “learning” status with low percentages to “mastered” with strong retention scores provides concrete evidence of growth. Musicians can track how their repertoire collection grows over time – seeing more pieces move into the “mastered” category while maintaining good scores across their entire library.
Maintaining Your Musical World
With Repertoire Manager, repertoires become living collections that grow steadily over time. Musicians can maintain larger repertoires with less anxiety about pieces slipping away. The app works the same whether managing a few pieces or hundreds, helping maintain whatever repertoire musicians choose to track.
You can test Repertoire Manager free of charge for 14 days here. Download the Windows version via Microsoft Store the Mac version is on it’s way and will be in the Apple Store soon….
Download Repertoire Manager for Windows form the Microsoft Store
Alternatively, you can download it directly here (if you don’t mind the “security warnings” on the PC when installing from an unknown source. The App is exactly the same though..
Download Repertoire Manager for Windows directly from here.
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