Keyboard Books

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

  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...

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...

A Guide to His Philosophy and Techniques Victoria A. von Arx Previously unpublished transcriptions of Arrau's lessons A comprehensive and detailed...

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

In this newly revised edition of a comprehensive guide to piano technique, performance, and music interpretation, renowned performing musician, rec...

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 ...

A Practical Guide for the Collaborative Pianist Written by Dr. Heasook Rhee, faculty member in Piano Chamber Music and Accompanying at the Manhatta...

by J. Cree Fischer If you have a note that has dropped in pitch, do you have to call in the tuner? A stuck key? Sympathetic rattle? Missing bridles...

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...

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...

Derived from a popular series of lecture-recitals presented by Carol Montparker over the past several years, The Composer's Landscape features eig...

by William Brown Menahem Pressler is a world-renowned piano soloist, master class teacher, and member of the acclaimed Beaux Arts Trio. In this com...

Composer: Carl Czerny Editor: Paul Badura-Skoda

Sir John Stainer is remembered today as a pioneer of English musicology. Beyond his duties as organist of London's St. Paul's Cathedral, he was a f...

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...

A Workbook in Theory and Keyboard Harmonyby Dorothy Priesing and Libbie Tecklin

Among the world's instruments, the piano stands out as the most versatile, powerful, and misunderstood -- even by those who have spent much of thei...

Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire continues to be the go-to source for piano performers, teachers, and students. Newly updated and expanded with mo...

This is the only complete and up-to-date book profiling every major pianist (thousands) and their essential repertoire and recordings. This third e...

Keyboard artists in the time of J.S. Bach were simultaneously performers, composers, and improvisers. By the twentieth century, however, the art of...