How big is your repertoire?

[rachmaninoff_forever]

How big is your repertoire?

I bet a lot of people have several days worth of repertoire lol.

[thalbergmad]

The pro's amongst us probably do have several days worth. I have 17 minutes which has taken me several weeks to learn.

Don't know how the big guns do it.

Thal

[49410enrique]

hmm like thal said i have no idea how those in the upper echelons manage but they can somehow keep probably a few hours in performance ready and probably twice that or more in mostly ready form (i.e probably a few small tweeks over a few hours to days and bingo hours more).

me i think i'm probably remarkable average and depending on the difficulty and period (i.e. modern music takes a bit longer to get in there and needs more maintenance and limits how much other music) i play around in the 12-20 minutes or so range, i can pop into the 30+ minute range but have never crossed into the +1 hour or >. usually becuase as soon as i learn a work to a sufficient standard (or very close, i.e. learning objective is met) i might or might not perform it and off the list it goes, i tend to back fill, FIFO (first in first out), and keep about my limits as a working repertoire list (i.e. my signature is most of the work i'll cover for 2012, but i still work a few minor solos on the side for my own learning goals sometimes they will get upgraded to full blown solos depending on the performance opportunity and appropriateness for the music). i also don't count music that isn't memorized i.e. accompanying pieces, if i count those i can sometimes double the total amount of playable music, but usually those parts are not very interesting (i mostly jump in on vocal works and concertos, i try to not to take on works specifically for piano and instrument since those are beefy parts and are many times solos for piano with instrumental accompanyment, i will drop one of my own solos if i take one of those on, and i'll charge handsomely becuase of it).

[pytheamateur]

What's the exact criteria that people normally use to determine whether a piece is in one's repertoire?

Is it a piece that has been learned and polished up to performance standard at one point in the past? Even though at present that person may not be able to play it without some serious practice?  For example, a concert pianist might have performed a difficult concerto 10 years ago and haven't played it since.  I supposed he would be out of practice now and may not be able to stand in for a soloist who has called in sick at short notice.

Or should it be limited to pieces that one can perform with minimal preparation at short notice?

[49410enrique]

@pytheamateur, i would think and hope, probably the latter. i don't see how it would be of benefit to claim a work in ones repertoire if it was not 'performable' in relative short order, i.e. me doesn't thinks it is of much worth to claim a piece that has to be relearned., though i'm prolly sure it is done all the time in bios and websites for promo purposes and such

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Okay, pieces that you can perform or if not ready to perform, can be polished up in a short amount of time.

[zezhyrule]

3 short and easy pieces  

Only started to get serious with piano stuffs after summer last year, so I'm still working on it  
At least I have a Beethoven sonata under my belt, if only one of the easy Op. 49 ones u_u

[rachmaninoff_forever]

3 short and easy pieces  

Only started to get serious with piano stuffs after summer last year, so I'm still working on it  
At least I have a Beethoven sonata under my belt, if only one of the easy Op. 49 ones u_u

Well it's always nice being able to have a sonata under your belt.  Whenever I say I can play a Sonata, I say it with triumph!  Because they're usually really long and difficult.

[j_menz]

Since I neither perform or memorise, I suppose I have zero repertoire 

If, however, I take it to mean pieces I can read and play to a satisfactory standard (whatever that may mean), It's about three feet of shelf space.  Five more feet (and several Gb of unprinted stuff) to go!