This historical survey focuses on music for piano solo but also includes important compositions for piano duet and two pianos. Scholarly yet readable, it covers the...

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

The present book is the outgrowth of a course of instruction, used successfully with pupils from various parts of the United States and Canada, conducted partly...

Looks at the development of the piano and the composers and musicians who made it a revolutionary instrument. Hildebrandt, a German journalist, writes the story of the...

The memory feats of famous musicians seem almost superhuman. Can such extraordinary accomplishments be explained by the same principles that account for more ordinary, everyday memory...

Written by a renowned musician and teacher who served as a mentor to Leonard Bernstein, this classic guide explains pedaling's most important uses and helps students...

THE PERFORMANCE OF MUSIC A Study in Terms of the Pianoforte

This new edition of the award-winning encyclopedia has been thoroughly revised, updated and expanded to include new technological advances, scholarship and bibliographic information

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to playing the pianoforte, with information on everything from finding the right notes to playing legato and staccato. "The...

Organ, Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of...