(paperback), Eigeldinger, $39.08Recommended Books, Videos, Sheet Music
Dec. 29, 2011
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Reviewed books (see P. 241 for reviews)
Chopin:
Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by his Pupils
The
Craft of Piano Playing: A New Approach to Piano Technique
Mastering
Piano Technique - A Guide for Students, Teachers and Performers
Piano
Technique
Guide
to the Pianist's Repertoire, third edition
Piano
Power, A Breakthrough Approach To Improving Your Technique
Super
Sight-Reading Secrets: An Innovative, Step-By-Step Program for
Musical Keyboard Players of All Levels
On
Piano Playing: Motion, Sound, and Expression
How
to Play Piano Despite Years of Lessons: What Music Is and How to Make
It at Home
How
to Play from a Fake Book (Keyboard Edition)
Books Reviewed in Addendum
Chopin: Pianist's Repertoire: A Graded Practical Guide, (paperback), Bailie, $49.95.
This
Is Your Brain on Music, The Science of a Human Obsession
Successful
Practising: A Handbook for Pupils, Parents and Music Teachers
The
Art of Piano Playing
Music
in your head (Mental practice, how to memorize piano music)
Pianism
The
Pianist's Talent:
Alexander and Raymond Thiberge, (paperback), Taylor, $13.95.
Videos
Craft
of Piano Playing
Mastering
Piano Technique - A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Performers
-DVD
Freeing
the Caged Bird - Developing Well-Coordinated, Injury-Preventive Piano
Technique
Sheet music books: most individual compositions in these books can be downloaded free from IMSLP, but most of these books are inexpensive and of better quality than your prints, have helpful comments, etc.
First
Lessons in Bach, Complete,
Johann
Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-869
(Pocket Score - Autograph Facsimile with all lost selections set
anew)
Bach:
The Well-Tempered Clavier: Books I and II, Complete
Ludwig
Van Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas Volume 1 (Nos. 1-15)
Ludwig
Van Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas Volume 2 (Nos. 16-32)
(Paperback), Schenker, (1975)
Chopin:
Mazurkas For The Piano (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics Vol.
28.)
Chopin:
Complete: 26 Preludes, 21 Nocturnes, 19 Waltzes
Chopin
Polonaises
Chopin
Ballades
Chopin
Etudes (Friedheim)
Debussey:
Favorite Piano Works (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics)
Gershwin:
Complete Works for Solo Piano (Alfred's Masterwork Editions)
Joplin
- Complete Rags for Piano (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics)
Vol. 2020
Mozart
19 Sonatas - Complete: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical
Classics, Vol. 1304)
Sonatina
Album: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics)
An inexpensive alternative is to purchase all-inclusive CDs and print yourself; these are useful when you want to quickly look up a composition without having to buy one.
Chopin:
Complete Works for Solo Piano - CD Sheet Music
Beethoven:
Complete Works for Solo Piano
More such CDs can be found at:
SheetMusicPlus (This is for Chopin – scroll down for others)