Keyboard Instruments

The Night Circus meets Lonely Castle in the Mirror in this multi-award-winning Japanese bestseller, available finally in an English translation by ...

A technical volume on the construction of organs. Comprises an alphabetically arranged detailing of the various components of organs, their charact...

". . . [a] very readable dissection of all the different ways in which Herbie Hancock's 1973 album Head Hunters broke the mould. . . . An entertain...

In Sonata Fragments, Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical forebears, usi...

"[Wolff] is a remarkable pianist, an excellent theoretician, a learned teacher, a brilliant thinker and writer." —Artur Schnabel"This collection of...

A detailed look at Shostakovich as pianist and interpreter of his own music.

It was during the turbulent decade of the First World War that the intensely gifted and beautiful Harriet Cohen established herself as a pianist. E...

"Everything But Bach, Beethoven and Brahms," comprises this multicultural repertoire guide for pianists, composers, music teachers and students, wo...

Just as musical etudes focus on the development of skills and address the technical problems encountered in keyboard literature, the "etudes" in th...

Grand Tours is a chronicle of the American visits of five charismatic pianists--Leopold de Meyer, Henri Herz, Sigismund Thalberg, Anton Rubenstein,...

This is a provocative account of pianist Glenn Gould's intellectual and musical thought. Gould was a philosopher who incessantly pursued wisdom thr...

Because it has always represented a rich collaboration of the music, art, architecture, handicraft and science of its day, the organ, more than any...

Off the Record is a revealing exploration of piano performing practices of the high Romantic era. Author and well-known pianist Neal Peres Da Costa...

This is a collection of essays reflecting on the piano teacher's art and the many challenges involved in piano teaching and performance. The topics...

From the preface by Lorin Hollander: "...a remarkable piece of work by an equally remarkable teacher, philosopher, and healer. Ruth explores with ...

American organist David Craighead's influence in the United States and abroad is widespread and extensive: 37 years as professor of organ at the Ea...

Beginners can make music at the piano and play musically even during the earliest phases of piano study, and this books shows how. Written for begi...

Providing essential tools to transform college piano students into professional piano teachers, Courtney Crappell's Teaching Piano Pedagogy helps t...

Like the symphonies of Beethoven, Mozart's piano concertos constitute an extraordinary body of work that will never disappear from our culture. Yet...

Providing essential tools to transform college piano students into professional piano teachers, Courtney Crappell's Teaching Piano Pedagogy helps t...

“In Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music, Shim has provided a comprehensive biographical and analytical account of one of jazz’s most important and m...

"In this book, Barbara Owen has created a rich resource of historical information coupled with strategies for interpreting that information on toda...

Dass Claude Debussy in den phantasievollen Charakterstücken seiner beiden Préludes-Bände (1910-13) von einer hochgradig eigenwilligen harmonischen ...

Allan Evans's groundbreaking biography of Ignaz Friedman gives the reader the behind and the between of the life and career of this extraordinary p...

Now in paperback!The Pianist's Guide to Transcrip-tions, Arrange-ments, and Paraphrases Maurice HinsonLists transcriptions for piano from orchestra...

Now in paperback! Music for More than One Piano An Annotated Guide Maurice Hinson When one piano is simply not enough. "Maurice Hinson's [Musi...

Famous Pianists and Their Technique has been a standard in the field since its first publication in 1974. This widely used and acclaimed history of...

This book focuses on the lives, careers, and musical contributions of American pianists from the very beginnings of the nation until the present da...