Write a program

At universities and affiliated high schools, when students take practical exams, they are required to write their own performance programs, have them checked by their lesson teachers, and submit them. Even if you know the pieces you usually practice, it is surprisingly difficult to write them down accurately when it comes to writing them down, and you will become better at writing them as you practice each time you take an exam.

Students learn various things to be careful of, such as making sure to spell the composer's name correctly, or when extracting a sonata movement, forgetting to write the movement means that the entire movement will be played, etc.

Incidentally, regarding the question of which should be written first, the key (e.g., C major) or the work number, music critic Mr. Hiroyuki Iwai once explained to me at a competition selection meeting that “the key is an integral part of the piece, so it should be written first, and the work number should come after that. It was so easy to understand that I have been telling my students this ever since.

This is an important lesson for students to be able to write a proper program when the graduate from school, give their own concerts, or hold class presentations in the future.