Building your library of repertoire does not just simply appear overnight. It takes months and even up to years of continuous development and growth to build your knowledge of various repertoire ranging from composers such as J.S Bach to Dmitri Shostakovich and so forth. With practice, this knowledge become accumulative because each composer, somewhat, take inspiration from composers that have lived and composed before them, even borrow from themselves to make new repertoire.
If you have worked through any exercise books such as the Carl Flesch Scale System and Kreutzer's 42 Studies, for example (for violins), you may have noticed familiar techniques and phrasing in other pieces of repertoire or individual practice. Surely, when working through certain pieces of music, especially baroque repertoire, phrases tend to repeat themselves either exactly the same or in a different key signature, but the idea remains the same. Even, some composers borrow from one another and rearrange the elements to make it their own work of music.
As your knowledge of many types of repertoire increases over time of playing your particular instrument, it becomes second nature to the individual because there are only limited possibilities fingerings and techniques to physically be able to perform at a certain level. Similar to those in the brass and woodwind, breathing techniques, setting the embouchure and fingerings for particular notes, it all tends to repeat itself. The only new objective to face, is just how prepare yourself for the upcoming note or phrase with the skill set you have already acquired. In the end, it is all about the consistency at which you practice to maintain your second nature to these techniques and accumulative skill set because these are skills that can be lost without the consistency it requires.
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