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)