Keyboard Instruments

Since the publication of The London Pianoforte School (ed. Nicholas Temperley) twenty years ago, research has proliferated in the area of music for...

This book is based on detailed notes taken by the author during a decade of study under one of the renowned teachers of piano, whose pupils include...

'To Richter (no first name necessary), warm greetings to the best pianist in the Soviet Union - indeed in the whole world.' ProkofievThroughout a l...

Documents the craft of the organbuilder Gerhard Brunzema (1927-1992) in terms of the organs he built and how his instruments and his approach to or...

The great American pianist Sidney Foster—distinguished professor of piano at Indiana University, and the first Leventritt Award winner—is remembere...

Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was a prodigy who loathed the word, a brilliant pianist who disliked performing, and a public figure who craved solitude. W...

Player Piano Treasury brings to the reader the story of the vast player piano industry in America which at one point was almost a necessity in the ...

Radio and television broadcasts are an essential component in the career of jazz musician Thomas "Fats" Waller. The medium suited his character wel...

Steve Beresford's polymathic activities have formed a prism for the UK improv scene since the 1970s. He is internationally known as a free improvis...

Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name in the US, as a result of the 'Shearing sound' - t...

Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was a giant of twentieth-century classical music, but one whose eccentricities have sometimes obscured the moral seriousnes...

The comprehensive go-to guide for building keyboard skills Being able to play a tune on the piano can bring you a lifetime of sheer aesthetic pleas...

Developed over many years of classroom experience by members of the music faculty at Queens College, it offers a substantial body of graded keyboar...

In this provocative new study, William Newman presents to the reader “whatever intentions on Beethoven's part can be documented or can be supported...

The Canadian pianist Glenn Gould was a child prodigy and a musical genius whose 1955 recording of Bach's "Goldberg Variations" catapulted him to wo...

New facsimile edition of a Classic Text of Music Education. Anne Rodwell's book, subtitled 'A Mirror of Music for Infant Minds', is presented in t...

A translation of the only book that focuses solely on the pianistic aspect of Busoni's wide-ranging career. Ferruccio Busoni is most widely known ...

The first English-language book on Czerny, and the broadest survey of his activity in any language. Within the history of European music, Carl Cze...

Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier (or the 48 Preludes and Fugues) stands at the core of baroque keyboard music and has been a model and inspiration for ...

Performance today on either the pianoforte or the fortepiano can be at once joyful, musicianly, expressive, and historically informed. From this po...

Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992) was the most influential composer for the organ in the 20th century. Shaped by French tradition as well as the innovat...

In this landmark publication, the most comprehensive study written on Haydn's keyboard sonatas, a leading Haydn scholar presents novel ideas, corre...

This guide to the piano literature for the one-handed pianist surveys over 2,100 individual piano pieces which include not only concert literature ...

A discography and bibliography of music written for the modern harpsichord, this volume features more than 800 mass-marketed recordings of some 600...

For the first time, all data for recordings of non-classical piano made for issue on disc and cylinder records prior to 1935 are brought together i...

In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women in music, and information on the music of a handful of black women compose...

While much has been written about the repertoire of musical works for pianoforte duet, ensemble literature for the other classical, historical, and...