Piano Lit Bibliography

Note: This bibliography is necessarily selective. Areas touched upon include general reference, the Baroque and Classical periods, and the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-centuries, ordered chronologically (and of course alphabetically within sections).

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SELECTED GENERAL REFERENCE 

Willi Apel, Masters of the Keyboard. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947).

Alfred Brendel, Alfred Brendel on Music: Collected Essays. (Chicago: A Cappella Books, 2001).

John Gillespie, Five Centuries of Keyboard Music. (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1972).

F. E. Kirby, Music for Piano: A Short History. (Portland: Amadeus Press, 1995).

David Rowland, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Piano. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Konrad Wolff, Masters of the Keyboard: Individual Style Elements in the Piano Music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983).

Konrad Wolff, Schnabel's Interpretation of Piano Music. (New York: Norton, 1972).

BAROQUE KEYBOARD LITERATURE SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Treatises of the time:

C.P.E. Bach, Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments, trans, ed. William J. Mitchell. (New York: Norton, 1949). Original editions of parts I and II published in 1753 and 1762.  [Note: out-of-print, but findable at libraries or via used-book venues]

Francois Couperin,  L'Art de toucher Clavecin (the Art of Playing the Harpsichord), ed, trans. Margery Halford. (Alfred Publishing, 1995). Based on the original editions of 1716 and 1717.

Johann Joachim Quantz, On Playing the Flute, trans. Edward R. Reilly. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1975). First German edition appeared in 1752.

Other:

Paul Badura-Skoda, Interpreting Bach on the Keyboard. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, first published in German in 1990).

Thurston Dart, The Interpretation of Music. (New York: Harper and Row, 1963, first published in 1954).

Robert Donington, Baroque Music: Style and Performance. (New York: Norton, 1982).

Ralph Kirkpatrick, Interpreting Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: A Performer�s Discourse of Method. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984).

Ralph Kirkpatrick, Domenico Scarlatti. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953).

Meredith Little and Natalie Jenne, Dance and the Music of J.S. Bach. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).

Robert L. Marshall, Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1994). 

Frederick Neumann, Performance Practices of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1993).

Anthony Newman, Bach and the Baroque. (New York: Pendragon Press, 1995).

David Rowland, Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

David Schulenberg. The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1992).

Alexander Silbiger, ed., Keyboard Music before 1700. (New York: Routledge, 2004)

 NINETEENTH-CENTURY PIANO LITERATURE SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

George Barth, The Pianist as Orator: Beethoven and the Transformation of Keyboard Style. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992).

John Daverio, Robert Schumann. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Kenneth Drake, The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).

Kenneth Drake, The Sonatas of Beethoven as he Played and Taught them. (Cincinnati: Music Teachers' National Association, 1972.)

Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Chopin: Pianist and Teacher as seen by his Pupils. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.)

Charles Fisk, Returning Cycles: Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert's Impromptus and Last Sonatas. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).

William Kinderman, Beethoven.(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).

William Kinderman, Beethoven's Diabelli Variation. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).

William S. Newman, Beethoven on Beethoven: Playing his Piano Music His Way. (New York: Norton, 1988).

Charles Rosen, Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).

Jim Samson, The Music of Chopin. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).

Robert Taub, Playing the Beethoven Sonatas. (Pompton Plains: Amadeus Press, 2002).

R. Larry Todd, ed. Nineteenth-Century Piano Music. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1990).

David Witten, Nineteenth-Century Piano Music: Essays in Performance and Analysis. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997).

TWENTIETH-CENTURY PIANO LITERATURE SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

-In progress-

General reference:

Burge, David, Twentieth-Century Piano Music. (New York: Schirmer, 1990).

Joel Lester, Analytic Approaches to Twentieth-Century Music. ( New York: Norton, 1989).

Joseph Kerman, Music at the Turn of the Century: a 19^th-century Music Reader. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).

Robert Morgan, Twentieth-Century Music  and Anthology. (New York: Norton, 1991).

Jim Samson, Music in Transion: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900-1920. (London: J.M. Dent, 1993).

Elliot Schwartz and Barney Childs, Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1998).

More specific resources:

Bela Bartok,  Essays (selected and edited by Benjamin Suchoff). (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992).

James R. Briscoe, ed. Debussy in Performance. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).

Malcolm Gillies, ed. The Bartok Companion. (Portland: Amadeus Press, 1994).

Roy Howat, Debussy in Proportion: A Musical Analysis. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.)

Charles Ives, ed Howard Boatwright. Essays before a Sonata, the Majority, and Other Writings. (New York: Norton, 1961).

Robert Sherlaw Johnson, Messiaen. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975).

Neil Minturn, The Music of Sergei Prokofiev. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).

Jean-Jacques Nattiez, ed. The Boulez-Cage Correspondence. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Roger Nichols, Ravel Remembered.  (London: Faber and Faber, 1987).

Paul Roberts, Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy. (Portland: Amadeus Press, 1996).

Peter Deane Roberts, Modernism in Russian Piano Music. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993).

Charles Rosen, Arnold Schoenberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.)

__________, The Musical Languages of Elliott Carter. (Washington: Music Division Research Services, Library of Congress, 1984).

E. Robert Schmitz, The Piano Works of Claude Debussy. (New York: Dover Publications, 1966).

Arnold Schoenberg, Style and Idea (selected writings of Arnold Schoenberg, edited by Leonard Stein). (Berkeley: University of California Press: 1975).

David Schiff, The Music of Elliott Carter. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988).

Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music: In the Form of Six Lessons (1939-40). Translated by Arthuer Knodel and Ingolf Dahl. (New York: Vintage Books, 1959).

Katherine Silberblatt Wolfthal, trans. Elliott Carter: In Conversation with Enzo Restagno for Settembre Musica 1989. (Brooklyn: Institute for Studies in American Music, 1991).