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23+ Essential Resources for Pianists Aspiring to Develop
"Compleat Musicianship at the Piano"
Best Analysis/Explanation of Piano Technique (and So Much More!)
"On Piano Playing: Motion, Sound, and Expression" - Gyorgy Sandor Pianism in Full (the Most Readable Book on All Aspects of Attaining Pianism)
"With Your Own Two Hands" - Seymour Bernstein General Pianism
"The Pianist’s Spectrum" - Ozan Marsh
Pianism for the Serious Amateur (but Nearly Everyone Could Learn from...)
"Playing the Piano for Pleasure" - Charles Cooke Classic Reprint (Superb on Mastering Trills/Ornamentation and Accompaniment)
"Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments" - C.P.E. Bach Most Inspiring, Informative Collection of Interviews w/ World-Class Pianists
"Reflections from the Keyboard" - David Dubal The Reference on Pianos - Their Mechanism, Operation, History and Value
"The Piano Book (4th Edition)" - Larry Fine The Classic Harmony Text, Unsurpassed Even Today!
"Harmony" - Walter PistonThe Most Innovative, Readable Harmony Text
(Best Balance of Practical "Hearing" and Theoretical Underpinnings of Harmony)
"Harmonic Experience" - W.A. Mathieu Most Thought-Provoking Volume on Harmony (Eclectic but Deep and Powerful!)
"Theory of Harmony" - A. Schoenberg No Perfect Introductory Text for Counterpoint, but I Prefer:
=> 16th-Century - Jeppesen, Soderlund
=> 17th-Century and later (despite Kennan's title)
..."Counterpoint: Based on Eighteenth-Century Practice"
- Kent Wheeler Kennan
For More Advanced Study of Counterpoint:
"The Study of Fugue" - Alfred Mann (Quite Good) Superb Advanced Counterpoint Text: "Convertible Counterpoint" - Serge Taneiev
For Form, Tovey & Rosen balance each other out
"The Forms of Music" - Sir Donald Tovey
"Sonata Forms" - Charles Rosen (get all of Rosen's work!) Mildred Portney Chase: Elegant, Expressive Insight on Mastering Music at the Piano "Improvisation: Music from the Inside Out"
"Just Being at the Piano"
Fabulous Book about the Complete Experience of Learning and Making Music!
"Making Music for the Joy of It" - Stephanie Judy The Books on Jazz Theory and Jazz Piano - both by Mark Levine...
"Jazz Piano"
"Jazz Theory"
Most Valuable Book on the Web (available for free download/printing, but I recommend the printed version, not to mention the upcoming CD-ROM version!):
"A Whole Approach to Jazz Improvisation," printed version of
"A Jazz Improvisation Primer" (free web book) - Marc Sabatella
Stellar Synthesis
"Emblems of Mind" - Edward RothsteinThoroughgoing Consideration of Everything Related to the Music Experience
"Music, the Brain & Ecstasy : How Music Captures Our Imagination"- Robert Jourdain
Coming Soon: A more thorough, Annotated Bibliography of Recommended Resources for Developing Compleat Musicianship at the Piano!
Sub-Categories to be Added: Improvisation, General Creativity, Orchestration, Music/Arts History, Music and Math/Logic, Music and Grammar/Linguistics, Reference... One Stellar Book from Distant Field (according with my approach to Compleat Musicianship at the Piano - analogical, polymathic, multi-disciplinary mastery)
One Mystery Book Chosen by "Filtered Randomizer"! (Supplements the effect of natural randomizers.)
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