This document provides a selective bibliography divided into several sections on topics related to piano improvisation, performance, theory, composition, and music history. Sections include resources on classical and jazz approaches to piano improvisation, styles like blues and Latin, classical piano playing, the history and construction of the piano, general musicianship, jazz and popular music theory, classical theory, history of classical music, classical composition, music analysis, ethnic music, free improvisation, contemporary performing arts, and general references. The bibliography cites over 100 books across these different musical domains.
This document provides a selective bibliography divided into several sections on topics related to piano improvisation, performance, theory, composition, and music history. Sections include resources on classical and jazz approaches to piano improvisation, styles like blues and Latin, classical piano playing, the history and construction of the piano, general musicianship, jazz and popular music theory, classical theory, history of classical music, classical composition, music analysis, ethnic music, free improvisation, contemporary performing arts, and general references. The bibliography cites over 100 books across these different musical domains.
This document provides a selective bibliography divided into several sections on topics related to piano improvisation, performance, theory, composition, and music history. Sections include resources on classical and jazz approaches to piano improvisation, styles like blues and Latin, classical piano playing, the history and construction of the piano, general musicianship, jazz and popular music theory, classical theory, history of classical music, classical composition, music analysis, ethnic music, free improvisation, contemporary performing arts, and general references. The bibliography cites over 100 books across these different musical domains.
C.P.E. Bach: Essay On The True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments. (Norton) S. Berkowitz: Improvisation Through Keyboard Harmony. (Prentice-Hall) B. Chung, D. Thurmond: Improvisation At The Piano (Alfred) L. Ferrara, K. E. Ferrara: Keyboard Harmony And Improvisation (Visionary Music) PIANO IMPROVISATION: THE JAZZ APPROACH D. Alldis: A Classical Approach To Jazz Piano Improvisation (Hal Leonard) J. Kember: The Jazz Piano Master: Jazz Techniques Through Pieces And Studies (Faber) M. Levine: The Jazz Piano Book (Sher Music Co.) T. Richards: Exploring Jazz Piano (Schott) David Sudnow: Ways Of The Hand. A Rewritten Account (MIT) PIANO IMPROVISATION: OTHER STYLES B. Burns: You Do It: Jazz, Rock, Pop, And Blues: Piano Improvisation (Kjos) C. Carlos: Latin Jazz Piano (A.D.G.) M. Harrison: Blues Piano (Hal Leonard) M. Mann: Improvising Blues Piano (Amsco) N. Morales: Latin-American Rhythms And Improvisations For Piano (Adler) J. Moser: Discovering Rock Piano (Schott) CLASSICAL PIANO PLAYING D. Ferguson: Piano Interpretation (Williams & Norgate) S. Harrison: The Young Persons Guide To Playing The Piano. (Faber) J. Last: The Young Pianist. (OUP) L. Philipp: Piano Technique: Tone, Touch, Phrasing And Dynamics. (Dover) D. Rowland (editor): The Cambridge Companion To The Piano (CUP) K. Taylor: Principles Of Piano Technique And Interpretation (Novello) HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE PIANO Cyril Ehrlich: The Piano, A History. (Oxford, Clarendon) Larry Fine: Piano Book. (Independent Publishers Group) K.T. Kennedy: Piano Action Repairs And Maintenance. (Kaye & Ward) GENERAL MUSICIANSHIP AND KEYBOARD SKILLS Paul Hindemith: Elementary Training For Musicians (Schott) Reginald Hunt: Harmony At The Keyboard (OUP) R.O. Morris: Figured Harmony At The Keyboard (OUP) G.E. Wittlich, D.S. Martin: Tonal Harmony For The Keyboard (Macmillan)
JAZZ AND POPULAR MUSIC THEORY
A. Bennett: Popular Music And Youth Culture (Palgrave Macmillan) P. Berliner: Thinking In Jazz: The Infinite Art Of Improvisation (Univ. of Chicago Press)J. Coker: Improvising Jazz (Simon and Schuster) A. Dankworth: Jazz: An Introduction To Its Musical Basis (Oxford University Press) S. Frith, W. Straw, J. Street (editors): The Cambridge Companion To Pop And Rock (CUP) S. Frith: The Sociology Of Rock (Constable) L. Grigson: Practical Jazz (Stainer and Bell) G. Keller: The Jazz Chord And Scale Book (Advance Music) M. Levine: The Jazz Theory Book (Sher Music Co.) G. Russell: The Lydian Chromatic Concept Of Tonal Organisation (Concept Publishing) G. Vulliamy, E. Lee (editors): Popular Music. A Teachers Guide (Routledge) CLASSICAL THEORY H.K. Andrews, R.O. Morris: The Oxford Harmony, Vols.1 & 2. (OUP) D. Stewart: The Musicians Guide To Reading And Writing Music (Miller Freeman) E. Taylor: The AB Guide To Music Theory (ABRSM) HISTORY OF CLASSICAL MUSIC C. Dahlhaus: Schoenberg And The New Music (CUP) P. Griffiths: Modern Music And After (OUP) D.J. Grout, C.V. Palisca: A History Of Western Music (Norton) CLASSICAL COMPOSITION O. Messiaen: The Technique Of My Musical Language (Leduc) V. Persischetti: Twentieth Century Harmony: Creative Aspects And Practice (Norton) W. Piston: Harmony (Gollancz) W. Piston: Counterpoint (Gollancz) G. Pratt: The Dynamics Of Harmony. Principles And Practice (OUP) A. Schoenberg: Fundamentals Of Musical Composition (Faber) A. Schoenberg: Theory of Harmony (Faber) A. Schoenberg: Structural Functions Of Harmony (Faber) A. Whittall: Musical Composition In The Twentieth Century (OUP) MUSIC ANALYSIS J. Dunsby, A. Whittall: Music Analysis In Theory And Practice (Faber & Faber) A. Forte, S. Gilbert: Introduction To Schenkerian Analysis (Norton) A. Forte: The Structure Of Atonal Music (Yale University Press) F. Lerdahl, R. Jackendoff: A Generative Theory of Tonal Music (MIT) ETHNIC MUSIC E. Axford: Traditional World Music Influences In Contemporary Solo Piano Literature (Scarecrow)
J. Blacking: Music, Culture And Experience (University of Chicago Press)
J. M. Chernoff: African Rhythm And African Sensuality (University of Chicago Press) B. Francis: African Music (Lawrence Hill) N. Ghosh: Fundamentals Of Rga And Tla (published by the author) A. Shiloah: Music In The World Of Islam (Scolar) FREE IMPROVISATION John Cage: Silence (Wesleyan University Press) Cornelius Cardew: Treatise Handbook (Peters Edition) Roger Dean: Creative Improvisation: Jazz, Contemporary Music And Beyond (Open University Press) CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS M. Huxley and N. Witts (editors): The Twentieth Century Performance Reader (Routledge) R. Laban: The Mastery Of Movement (Northcote House) J. Milling, G. Ley: Modern Theories Of Performance (Palgrave) J. Rink (editor): Musical Performance. A Guide to Understanding (CUP) R. Schechner: Performance Studies: An Introduction (Routledge) GENERAL REFERENCE S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell (editors): The New Revised Grove Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (OUP) C. Small: Music, Society, Education (Wesleyan University Press)