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PIANO IMPROVISATION: THE CLASSICAL APPROACH


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)

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