Instrument Books

Make sure you hit all the right notes. Playing the piano is much more than just learning notes and reading music; having good dexterity, buildin...

One evening, journalist Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suitesand began an epic quest that would unravel three cent...

In this update of the Acoustic Guitar Answer Book, Sharon Isbin, the classical guitar virtuoso who heads the Juilliard School Guitar Department, an...

Quick – what's that chord? This compact reference guide includes: over 2,700 guitar chord diagrams in all 12 keys; 58 chord qualities and four voic...

by Graham Salter

A charming and deeply funny memoir of musical obsession, A Devil to Play is the story of Jasper Rees, a man who unearths his childhood French horn,...

A fascinating celebration of the piano, including tales of its masters from Mozart and Beethoven to Oscar Peterson and Jerry Lee Lewis, told with t...

The volume presents two book by Walter Gieseking, foremost pianist of his generation, and his teacher for five years, Karl Leimer, that have long ...

Most listeners can readily distinguish between the works of such keyboard giants as Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt and between various national school...

by Elizabeth Green A history of Galamian's summer school from its very beginning to the present. A section is devoted to a brief biography of t...

HE STARTED LEARNING to play the piano when he was three years old in Shenyang, China. Today he is one of the world’s most outstanding pianists. In ...

Learning from a virtuoso is something that any piano student would love to do. But while master classes are rare, this remarkable book allows us to...

  In recent years, efforts to achieve interpretations that do justice to the criteria of “historical performance practice” have become de rigueur...

Offers clear and simple explanations of key signatures and chords. Text provides information on major and minor scales, guidelines for scale finger...

By Eva Badura-Skoda, Paul Badura-Skoda Originally published in German as Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard in 1957, this definitive work on the p...

Long admired for his interpretation of Bach's six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin, Jaap Schröder, a leading international soloist, he...

This collection of interviews sparkles with the individual personalities of some of this century's most gifted cellists. With voices as unique as t...

This unique guide helps all musicians: open up new avenues of expression through a pain-free, healthy, fluid approach to music-making; overcome per...

by Albert R Rice Notes for Clarinetists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers important historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the ...

What Every Violinist Needs to Know about the Body is a comprehensive volume on using Body Mapping technique to help violinists prevent injury and d...

Adam Perlmutter (Revised by) The key to fast and fun piano proficiency!   Whether you’re a wannabe Mozart or are an experienced hand at tinkling t...

"This is an immensely valuable book and one which is clearly designed to appeal to all musicians—not just string players...Mr. Blum has captured in...