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The Piano: An Inspirational Style Guide to the Piano and Its Place in History
by John Paul Williams  Publisher Comments An indispensable reference for every piano lover! The Piano provides a lavishly illustrated history of the instrument, presents a comprehensive survey of its best-known makes and manufacturers, and offers a complete guide to purchasing the right piano...
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Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking with CD (Audio)
by Nicolas Collins Publisher Comments Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction for students of electronic music, installation and sound-art to the craft of making (as well as creatively cannibalizing) electronic...
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Note by Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson
by Tricia Tunstall Publisher Comments In this luminous book, Tricia Tunstall explores the enduring fascination of the piano lesson. Even as everything else about the world of music changes, the piano lesson retains its appeal. Drawing on her own lifelong experience as a student and teacher...
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
by Thad Carhart 
Publisher Comments Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Pairs neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his...
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Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey
by Perri Knize Publisher Comments A fascinating, lyrical memoir about one woman's obsessive search for the perfect piano-and about finding and pursuing passion at any age How can a particular piano be so seductive that someone would turn her life upside down to answer its call? How does...
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Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer
by Boris Berman Publisher Comments Boris Berman, renowned concert pianist and teacher, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sergei Prokofiev. In this book, he draws on his intimate knowledge of Prokofiev’s work to guide music lovers and pianists through the composer...
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Piano Lessons: Music, Love, and True Adventures
by Noah Adams Publisher Comments Piano Lessons is Noah Adams's delightful and moving chronicle of his fifty-second year--a year already filled with long, fast workdays and too little spare time--as he answers at last a lifelong call: to learn to play the piano. The twelve monthly...
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George Winston Piano Solos
by George (crt) Winston Publisher Comments The All Music Guide says that pianist and composer George Winston is among the earliest and most successful proponents of contemporary instrumental music. Here is the first songbook ever notating his beloved piano pieces. Winston himself chose the songs...
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The Pianist's Problems: A Modern Approach to Efficient Practice and Musicianly Performance (Da Capo Paperback)
by William S Newman Publisher Comments ”The reader must have noted in the favorite magazines of the practicing pianist how often the same troubled queries reappear: How can memorizing be made easier and more secure? How can the fourth and fifth fingers be strengthened? What produces...
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The Piano (Pocket Manual)
by Michael Nyman Synopsis Composer's notes, biography, black-and-white film photos, and original compositions for solo piano from Michael Nyman. Includes: Big My Secret, The Mood That Passes Through You, Deep Sleep Playing, Silver-Fingered Fling, The Attraction Of The Pedalling...
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Alfred's Group Piano for Adults
by E. L. Lancaster Synopsis Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Book 1 is designed for non-keyboard music majors with little or no keyboard experience. Upon completion of the course, students will have a strong grasp of functional skills, keyboard technique and musical styles. The...
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Piano Music (Dover Music Series)
by Louis M. Gottschalk Publisher Comments Features 26 pieces (including covers) by early 19th-century American genius. "Bamboula," "The Banjo," other Creole, Negro-based material, through elegant salon music....
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Contemporary Class Piano
by Elyse Mach Publisher Comments Highly acclaimed for its creative approach to beginning piano, Contemporary Class Piano presents materials in an engaging manner and in a logical progression of difficulty. Easily accessible to students with no prior music or keyboard experience, the...
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Piano Technique
by Walter Gieseking Publisher Comments Two books bound together, by one of greatest pianists of all-time and his famed teacher: The Shortest Way to Pianistic Perfection, and Rhythmics, Dynamics, Pedal and Other Problems of Piano Playing....
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Ritual Fire Dance and Other Works for Solo Piano
by Manuel De Falla Publisher Comments This compact, attractive compilation of Falla's all-time favorites for piano is headed by the world-famous "Ritual Fire Dance" from the theater piece El amor brujo (Love, the sorcerer). Inspired mostly by Gypsy folk music of Andalusia, Falla's music...
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Mazurkas, Poemes, Impromptus and Other Works for Piano
by Alexander Scriabin Publisher Comments This unique volume of Alexander Scriabin's piano music combines all of the Russian composer's widely admired Poèmes, which exude the richness and complexity of his later style, with all of the earlier, more Chopinesque Mazurkas and Impromptus...
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Organ-Stops and Their Artistic Registration
by George Ashdown Audsley Publisher Comments This 1921 classic guide to the "Monarch of all Instruments" supplies various names of each stop in different languages, traces their origins, and describes their construction, tonal characteristics, and value in artistic combination and registration. A...
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After the Golden Age
by Kenneth Hamilton Publisher Comments Kenneth Hamilton's book engagingly and lucidly dissects the oft-invoked myth of a Great Tradition, or Golden Age of Pianism. It is written both for players and for members of their audiences by a pianist who believes that scholarship and readability can...
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Suzuki Piano School #1: Suzuki Piano School
by Shinichi Suzuki Synopsis Titles: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Variations (Shinichi Suzuki) * Lightly Row (German Folk Song) * The Honeybee (Bohemian Folk Song) * Cuckoo (German Folk Song) * Lightly Row (German Folk Song) * French Children's Song (French Folk Song) * London...
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The Piano Works of Claude Debussy
by Elie R. Schmitz Publisher Comments Part biography, part criticism, and part analysis, this fascinating study of one of music's greatest geniuses is above all an authoritative commentary on the entire corpus of Debussy's work for solo piano. Written with special insights for the performer....
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