Summer Keyboard Institute 2001
Bibliography of Books and Journals

Ref M 2 .W88 1996
Glickman, Sylvia and Martha Furman Schleifer.  Women Composers: Music Throught the Ages.  New York: G.K. Hall, 1996.
Multi-volume encyclopedia of women composers includes biographical information, bibliographical information, works lists, and a few musical compositions for each composer.  Volumes 2, 3, and 6 have information on keybard composers.

Ref ML 128 .E4 W53 1997
Wick, Robert L.  Electronic and Computer Music: An Annotated Bibliography.   Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Includes chapters on MIDI, electronic synthesizers, electronic music composition, and teaching electronic and computer music.

Ref ML 128 .H35 M43
Meggett, Joan M., comp.  Keyboard Music by Women Composers: A Catalog and Bibliography.  Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Ref ML 128 .P3 C48
Chang, Frederic Ming and Albert Faurot.  Team Piano Repertoire: A Manual of Music for Multiple Players at One or More Pianos.  Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1976.

Ref ML 128 .P3 H5
Hinson, Maurice.  Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire.   Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.
Arranged by composer and includes information about anthology contents.   Extensive bibliography.

Ref ML 128 .P3 H52 1983
Hinson, Maurice.  Music for More than One Piano.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

Ref ML 128 .P3 H534 1998
Hinson, Maurice.  The Pianist's Bookshelf: A Practical Guide to Books, Videos, and Other Resources.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Alphabetically-arranged bibliography with extensive annotations about each entry.   Includes books and dissertations or theses.  Subject indexes include accompanying, biographies, history and criticism, lists of piano music, pedagogy, performance anxiety, and others.  [Buy it from Amazon.com]

Ref ML 128 .P3 H53
Hinson, Maurice.  Music for Piano and Orchestra: An Annotated Guide.   Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Arranged by instrumentation.

Ref ML 128 .P3 M2
Hinson, Maurice.  Piano Duet Repertoire: Music Originally Written for One Piano, Four Hands.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Arranged alphabetically by composer.

Ref ML 128 .V7 M45 1998
McTyre, Ruthann Boles.  Library Resources for Singers, Coaches, and Accompanists: An Annotated Bibliography 1970-1997.  Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Includes information on books that discuss accompanying.

Ref ML 650 .C1 1998
Roland, David, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Piano. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Contains a variety of articles including acoustics, repertoire, concert life.

Biographies and Stories about Pianists

ML 417 .A23 1996
Adams, Noah.  Piano Lessons: Music, Love & True Adventures.   New York: Delacorte Press, 1996.
The host of NPR's All Things Considered tells about his adventure of beginning piano lessons as a 52 year-old.

ML 417 .H8 P6 1983
Plaskin, Glenn.  Horowitz: A Biography of Vladimir Horowitz.   New York: William Morrow, 1983.

ML 417 .A83 P4 1985
Parrott, Jasper. Beyond Frontiers.  New York: Atheneum, 1985.
Vladimir Ashkenazy.

ML 417 .L56 T4 1988
Tanasescu, Dragos and Grigore Bargauanu.  Lipatti.  London: Kahn & Averill, 1988.

ML 417 .M85 A33 1987b
Moore, Gerald.  Farewell Recital: Further Memoirs.  New York: Taplinger Publishing, 1978.

ML 417 .P25 A3 1998
Paperno, Dmitry. Notes of a Moscow Pianist.  Portland: Amadeus Press, 1998.

ML 417 .R79 A28
Rubinstein, Arthur.  My Many Years.  New York: Knopf, 1980.

History of the Piano

Oversised ML 650 .H5613 1981
Hirt, Franz Josef.  Stringed Keyboard Instruments. Dietkon-Zürich, Urs Graf Verlag, 1981.

ML 650. L64
Loesser, Arthur.  Men, Women and Pianos: A Social History.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954.

ML 650 .M25
Matthews, Denis, ed.  Keyboard Music.  New York: Praeger, 1972.
Essays by notable scholars on keyboard music, specific composers, and national schools.

Oversized ML 652 .B53 1984
Bielefeldt, Catherine C.  The Wonders of the Piano: The Anatomy of the Instrument.  Melville: Belwin-Mills Publishing, 1984.

ML 652 .G6 1982
Good, Edwin M.  Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos: A Technological History from Cristofori to the Modern Concert Grand.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982.

ML 655.C63 1998
Cole, Michael.  The Pianoforte in the Classical Era.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

ML 678 .W32 1982
Wainwright, David.  Broadwood by Appointment: A History.   London: Quiller Press, 1982.

History of Piano Music and Performance Practice

ML 700 .B38 1992
Barth, George.  The Pianist as Orator: Beethoven and the Transformation of Keyboard Style.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

ML 700 .K47 1966
Kirby, F. E.  A Short History of Keyboard Music.  New York: Schirmer, 1966.

ML 705 .E37 1994
Marshall, Robert L., ed.  Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music.   New York, Schirmer, 1994.

ML 705 .R67 1988
Rosenblum, Sandra P.  Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

ML 705 .W64 1983
Wolff, Konrad.  Masters of the Keyboard: Individual Style Elements in the Piano Music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert.  Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1983.

ML 706 .N56 1990
Todd, R. Larry, ed.  Nineteenth-Century Piano Music.  New York: Schirmer, 1990.

ML 707 .B87 1990
Burge, David.  Twentieth-Century Piano Music.  New York, Schirmer, 1990.

ML 711 .C6 1988
Clark, J. Bunker.  The Dawning of American Keyboard Music.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

ML 734 .R6 1993
Roberts, Peter Deane.  Modernism in Russian Piano Music.  (2 vols.)  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

MT 145 .B14 S415 1992
Schulenberg, David.  The Keyboard Music of J. S. Bach.  New York: Schirmer, 1992.

MT 145 .B4 K56 1987
Kinderman, William.  Beethoven's Diabelli Variations.  Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987.

Piano Pedagogy

MT 220 .K3
Kentner, Louis.  Piano.  New York: Schirmer, 1976.
Includes sections on understanding the piano, playing the piano, and great piano composers.

MT 220 .K57 1986
Kirshbaum, Bernard.  The Challenging World of Piano Teaching.   Framingham: Starrest Music Publishers, 1986.

MT 229 .W542 1997
Whiteside, Abby.  Abby Whiteside on Piano Playing: Indispensables of Piano Playing & Mastering the Chopin Etudes and Other Essays.  Portland: Amadeus Press, 1997.

MT 221 .O8 1981
Ortmann, Otto.  The Physiological Mechanics of Piano Technique: An Experimental Study of the Nature of Muscular Action as used in Piano Playing, and of the Effects Thereof upon the Piano Key and the Piano Tone.  New York: DaCapo Press, 1981.  Orig. publ. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1929.

MT 222 .L4983 1972
Gieseking, Walter and Karl Leimer.  Piano Technique, Consisting of the Two Complete Books: The Shortest Way to Pianistic Perfection and Rhythmics, Dynamics, Pedal and Other Problems of Piano Playing.  New York, Dover, 1972.

MT 224 .B132
Bach, C.P.E.  Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments.   Transl. William J. Mitchell.  New York: Norton, 1949.

MT 235 .S54
Siki, Béla.  Piano Repertoire: A Guide to Interpretation and Performance.   New York: Schirmer, 1981.

MT 239 .H4
Haerle, Dan. Jazz/Rock Voicings for the Contemporary Keyboard Player. Lebanon, IN: Studio P/R, 1974/.

MT 239 .L46 1989
Levine, Mark. The Jazz Piano Book. Petaluma, CA: Sher Music Co., 1989.

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