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  • Bartók's Mikrokosmos

    Genesis, Pedagogy, and Style

    by Benjamin Suchoff ...
    Now available in paperback! BZla Bart-k's Mikrokosmos is a collection of 153 pieces for piano designed by the composer as a series graded according to difficulty. The pieces were written between 1926 and 1939, and have become by far the best-known series of teaching pieces by a major composer in the twentieth century. This in-depth study investigates Bart-k's Mikrokosmos from three main viewpoints ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Piano Lessons with Claudio Arrau

    A Guide to His Philosophy and Techniques

    by Victoria A. von Arx ...
    Piano Lessons with Claudio Arrau provides an insider's view of the art of piano performance as exemplified by one of the great artists of the twentieth century. Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau devoted his life to the piano and its music. As a child prodigy, he gained national recognition from government officials in Chile, including President Pedro Montt, who funded Arrau's education in Germany. ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Verdi

    by John Suchet ...
    Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy, the home of opera, has ever produced. Yet throughout his lifetime he claimed to detest composing and repeatedly rejected it. He was a landowner, a farmer, a politician and symbol of Italian independence; but his music tells a different story.An obsessive perfectionist, Verdi drove collaborators to despair but his works lauded from ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Piano Playing : with Piano Questions Answered

    by Josef Hofmann ...
    Josef Hofmann (1876–1957) was a master of piano technique and an artist who had few equals at the keyboard. A student of Anton Rubinstein and a leading exponent of the works of Chopin, Liszt, and Schumann, he always balanced his virtuoso playing with a firm adherence to the piece as written. It is this balanced approach to piano playing that he advocates in this highly regarded volume on piano ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Off the Record

    Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing

    by Neal Peres da Costa ...
    Off the Record is a revealing exploration of piano performing practices of the high Romantic era. Author and well-known keyboard player Neal Peres Da Costa bases his investigation on a range of early sound recordings (acoustic, piano roll and electric) that capture a generation of highly-esteemed pianists trained as far back as the mid-nineteenth-century. Placing general practices of late ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Moonlight Sonata - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor - Op. 27/No. 2 - For Solo Piano

    With a Biography by Joseph Otten

    by Ludwig Van Beethoven ...
    This wonderful piece "Moonlight Sonata" by Ludwig van Beethoven contains a score for solo piano. It is a fine example of the composer’s work and a fantastic addition to any classical musician’s repertoire. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) was a seminal German composer. He had a significant influence on the transition from the Classical to the Romantic era of music, and to this day he is ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Piano Teacher's Guide to Creative Composition (Music Instruction)

    by Carol Klose ...
    (Educational Piano Library). This book is meant to assist teachers who wish to introduce their students to creative composition but have limited lesson time available and feel the need for some direction in starting and continuing the process successfully. The process involves devoting as little as five minutes of lesson time to composition, but at every lesson over a period of, for example, six ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint

    by Thomas Benjamin ...
    First Published in 2003. The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint is an introductory text to the analysis and composition of tonal counterpoint. Using examples from the music of J.S. Bach - the master of this style - the author takes students through a series of carefully graded, cumulative exercises that stress both analysis and writing. Benjamin covers chromaticism and fugal writing in exceptional detail ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Mozart's Piano Music

    by William Kinderman ...
    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 served as medium for many of his finest compositions. In Mozart's Piano Music, William Kinderman reconsiders common assumptions about Mozart's life and art while offering comprehensive and incisive commentary on the solo music and concertos. After placing ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Composer's Landscape

    The Pianist as Explorer - Interpreting the Scores of Eight Masters

    by Carol Montparker ...
    Series series Amadeus
    Derived from a popular series of lecture-recitals presented by Carol Montparker over the past several years, The Composer's Landscape features eight insightful essays on the piano repertoire. Each chapter focuses on a single composer: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, and Mendelssohn. Montparker uses landscape as a metaphor for the score, whether it be a well-tended ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music

    New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis

    by Judy Lochhead ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Music Theory
    This bookstudies recent music in the western classical tradition, offering a critique of current analytical/theoretical approaches and proposing alternatives. The critique addresses the present fringe status of recent music sometimes described as crossover, postmodern, post-classical, post-minimalist, etc. and demonstrates that existing descriptive languages and analytical approaches do not ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Keyboard Music Before 1700

    Edited by Alexander Silbiger ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Musical Genres
    Keyboard Music Before 1700 begins with an overview of the development of keyboard music in Europe. Then, individual chapters by noted authorities in the field cover the key composers and repertory before 1700 in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain and Portugal. The book concludes with a chapter on performance practice, which addresses current issues in the interpretation ... Read more

    $80.99 USD