One preconception, large-ish answer

I've been writing down thoughts for the blog (bought a small fun notebook to keep in my bag at all times). One of them is this prejudice: "The Suzuki flute repertoire is very narrow." Many times the phrase is presented by people who actually haven't been browsing the books (sheet music material) or don't know the method otherwise. As we Do use other material alongside the repertoire books. And the books themselves are, well, versatile.

1. The (flute) books 1-9 consist of work by quite a lot of composers.

• Ghys
• Suzuki
• Bayly
• Schubert
• Taki
• J.S.Bach
• Händel
• Gluck
• Beethoven
• Reichert
• Genin
• Telemann
• Mendelssohn
• Dvorak
• Drigo
• Andersen
• Woodall
• Szulc & Hennebains
• Bizet
• Blavet
• Cimarosa
• Godard
• Böhm
• Wetzger
• F.Doppler
• Quantz
• Fauré
• Mozart

2. There are three different eras of music covered.

• Baroque (German, French)
• Classicism
• Romanticism

3.Different forms of music are presented.

• Small pieces/songs
• Theme & variations
• Sonatas
• Concertos (solo and duet)
• Old dances (minuet, bourrée, gavotte, polonaise, rondo, sarabande)
• Virtuoso pieces (serenades, scherzino, fantasies etc.)
• Music from opera & orchestra suites & ballet (Orphée et Eurydice / Gluck, L'Arlésienne / Bizer, B minor Suite / J.S.Bach, Harlequinade / Drigo)
• Duets and trios (concerto for 2 flutes, the 2nd and 3rd flute parts for books 1 and 2 / the ensemble book)

4. There's also non-classical music.

• Folk songs (common and Irish)
• Children songs (common and Japanese)

 5. Some classical works (sheet music and recording) are hard to find elsewhere. (And they were completely new to me...)

• A.Woodall - Serenade
• P. Wetzger - By the Brook

Detail from a music poster at work. I love flute & ballet, so it kinda fits me... :)