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1	Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano more books like this by James Parakilas add to wishlist The piano puts whole worlds of musical sound at the fingertips of one player, evoking the singing of a solo voice, the textural richness of an orchestra, and the rhythmic impetus of a dance band. It has been background or centre stage in concert-going, parlour singing, choir rehearsals, theatrical tryouts, and many other activities, forging a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.22! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Piano Handbook more books like this by Carl Humphries add to wishlist With clear and easy-to-understand exercises, The Piano Handbook is perfect for anyone interested in learning the piano. It provides fresh material and techniques, and gives brand-new players everything they need to learn and enjoy the piano. This book's innovative tutorial approach to piano covers classical and contemporary music styles in an ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $20.97! \| SVS
3	The Piano more books like this by Jeremy Siepmann add to wishlist For more than two centuries, the piano has been the world's most popular musical instrument. Throughout its history, it has served many different masters and found a niche in various social milieus. This work covers every aspect of the instrument's colourful and multi-faceted career, from sonatas to rhapsodies, from tin pan alley to the concert ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $11.98! \| first editions
4	Men, women and pianos; a social history. more books like this by Arthur Loesser add to wishlist As the "social anchor" in middle-class homes of the 19th century, the piano was simultaneously an elegant piece of drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity and a mean of introducing the young to music and entertaining their elders. In the admirably balanced and leisurely account of the popular instrument, the late, internationally ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Russian Piano Concerto: Volume I: The Nineteenth Century more books like this by Jeremy Norris add to wishlist Jeremy Norris traces the progress of the Russian piano concerto, which was at first inspired by a handful of dilettante concerto-style works and fantasias labelled 'for fortepiano or harpsichord'. Most early Russian piano concertos reflected stylistic features of Western European music, and several show evidence of plagiarism. Russian composers ... see all copies from $5.85! new only from $41.69! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Lives of the Piano more books like this by James R Gaines add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
7	The Piano: A History more books like this by Cyril Ehrlich add to wishlist The author follows the piano's history, from the fortepiano of Mozart's time to the most sophisticated modern products of the Japanese manufacturers and looks at the professional musicians, the hire-purchase touts and fashionable ladies, amongst others. see all copies from $12.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
8	The pianoforte more books like this by William Leslie Sumner add to wishlist see all copies from $2.42! new only from $20.14! \| first editions
9	The Piano more books like this by Cyril Ehrlich add to wishlist For more than a century the piano occupied a dominant place in music and society. Professor Ehrlich follows its fascinating history from the fortepiano of Mozart's time, through the Victorians' 'household orchestra and god', to the most sophisticated modern products of the Japanese manufacturers. His protagonists include barnstorming virtuosi, ... see all copies from $14.88! new only from $44.85! \| SVS
10	After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance more books like this by Dr. Kenneth Hamilton add to wishlist 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 go hand-in-hand. Hamilton discusses in meticulous yet lively detail the performance-style of ... see all copies from $20.50! new only from $21.37! \| SVS
11	History of the piano more books like this by Ernest Closson add to wishlist see all copies from $5.95! first editions
12	The Piano: Its Story from Zither to Grand more books like this by David S Grover add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
13	The Book of the Piano more books like this by Dominic Gill (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $4.07! first editions
14	Mozart's Piano Concertos more books like this by John Irving add to wishlist Mozart's piano concertos stand alongside his operas and symphonies as his most frequently performed and best loved music. They have attracted the attention of generations of musicologists who have explored their manifold meanings from a variety of viewpoints. In this study, John Irving brings together the various strands of scholarship surrounding ... see all copies from $59.61! new only from $110.14!
15	The Piano: The Story of the World's Most Popular Musical Instrument more books like this by Jeremy Siepmann add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $59.72! \| first editions
16	History of the American pianoforte; its technical development, and the trade. more books like this by Daniel Spillane add to wishlist see all copies from $26.68! new only from $26.68! \| SVS
17	The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Instruments, Performers and Repertoire more books like this by Therese Marie Ellsworth add to wishlist Since the publication of "The London Pianoforte School" (ed. Nicholas Temperley) twenty years ago, research has proliferated in the area of music for this most popular instrument during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and into developments in the musical life of London, for a time the centre of piano manufacturing, publishing and ... see all copies from $110.14! new only from $110.14!
18 view cover	The Pianoforte in the Classical Era more books like this by Michael Cole (Editor) add to wishlist In a period of only thirty years in the second half of the eighteenth century European musical culture underwent a remarkable transformation. In 1765 the harpsichord was the indispensable item in almost every concert and in every home where music was practised; the sound of the pianoforte was virtually unknown to most music lovers. Yet by 1795 the ... see all copies from $154.38! new only from $171.90!
19	The Piano; A Pictorial Account of Its a: A Pictorial Account of Its Ancestry and Development more books like this by Helen Rice Hollis add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
20	Early piano. more books like this by C F. Colt add to wishlist see all copies from $26.59! first editions
21 view cover	Structural Novelty and Tradition in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto more books like this by Stephan D Lindeman add to wishlist In the early nineteenth century, seven composers experimented with the design of the piano concerto at roughly the same time. Two mature figures -- Johann Baptist Cramer and Carl Maria von Weber -- and five young firebrands -- Felix Mendelssohn, Valentin Alkan, Clara Wieck, Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt -- probed the possibilities and challenged ... see all copies from $64.00! new only from $64.00!
22	The EMI-Everyman companion guide to the piano. more books like this by Jeremy Sipemann, EMI Records (UK) add to wishlist The object of this new series will be to pro vide intelligent, unpatronizing guidance to people who love music but have no technical knowledge of it, and long to be introduced to much more. Each volume will have attached to i t 3 compact discs ' see all copies from $14.13!
23	The history of the pianoforte, with an account of the theory of sound and also of the music and musical instruments of the ancients. more books like this by Edgar Brinsmead add to wishlist see all copies from $17.87! new only from $17.87!
24 view cover	The Living Piano: A Complete Guide to Listening, Learning, and Playing more books like this by Barrie Carson Turner add to wishlist An introduction to the piano and the music that it makes. Readers will learn how the piano is made, how it works, its origins and history, and finally its place in the orchestra. Also included is biographical information about composers as well as tips on how to play the piano. Each book comes packaged with a CD that presents some well-known music ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $69.00! \| first editions
25	The Piano: A Pictorial Account of Its Ancestry and Development more books like this by Helen R. Hollis add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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