Keyboard Instruments

Eighteenth-century pianos shaped and influenced the music that was written for them. However, although organological studies probe the instrument i...

In this comprehensive study of performance practice in Haydn's keyboard music, Bernard Harrison confronts the important issues facing any performer...

The early piano has grown in popularity over recent years. It is now recognized as a window to the past and indispensable in revealing the sounds i...

The authors' new approach to learning two playing techniques offers a systematic method for mastering the modern, legato technique needed for organ...

Making Music on the Organ has already established itself as an indispensable guide to the art of organ playing. It records the ideas which underpin...

For more than a century the piano occupied a dominant place in music and society. Professor Ehrlich follows its fascinating history from the fortep...

In lucid and engaging style, Stinson explores Bach's 'Great Eighteen' Organ Chorales - among Bach's most celebrated works for organ - from a wide r...

Art Tatum was the greatest virtuoso performer in the history of jazz piano; his technique overwhelmed almost every jazz player who heard him and ca...

From the case designed for Glenn Gould with its flat rectilinear screens with a single window, allowing only his feet to be seen, to the lid for Ge...

The thirty-two Piano Sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven form one of the most important segments of piano literature. In this accessible, compact, and ...

The thirty-two Piano Sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven form one of the most important segments of piano literature. In this accessible, compact, and ...

The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture examines the powerful but often overlooked presence of the organ in synagogue music and the musica...

The Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120, represent Beethoven's most extraordinary achievement in the art of variation-writing. ...

On the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, this volume offers an in-depth look at the "Great Eighteen" organ chorales, among the most celebr...

Mozart's emergence as a mature artist coincides with the rise to prominence of the piano, an instrument that came alive under his fingers and serve...

Intended for the aspiring artist as well as the enthusiastic amateur, this invaluable guide to piano practice and performance covers every major as...

"The reader must have noted in the favourite magazines of the practicing pianist how often the same troubled queries reappear: How can memorizing b...

In this eloquent, intimate exploration of the delights and demands of the piano, world-renowned concert pianist and music writer Charles Rosen draw...

This comprehensive survey of jazz piano, beginning with a brief history of the instrument within the jazz tradition and concluding with interviews ...

For centuries, pipe organs stood at the summit of musical and technological achievement, admired as the most complex and intricate mechanisms the h...

Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician provides undergraduate music majors in class piano courses with the techniques and fundamentals they nee...

Harmony at the Piano adapts the traditional study of keyboard harmony to the practical needs of modern piano students, using innovative exercises t...

Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician provides undergraduate music majors in class piano courses with the techniques and fundamentals they nee...

Schoenberg's Op.23 for solo piano, written between 1920 and 1923, represented a move from his atonal music of the preceding twelve years to 12-note...

The book details the history of three organs, and provides a complete account of the organists, warts and all. Chichester has had its quota of ecce...

This extensively illustrated book is an introduction to the organ, its history, design and repertoire, and will be especially useful to the general...