Piano Literature, Pedagogy and Accompanying
The Literature and Pedagogy Guides are designed for use by music performance and pedagogy faculty and students. Included in these guides are listing of call number ranges and subject headings for browsing/accessing books, journals, scores, and audio/visual recordings by specific instruments, family of instruments, and major ensembles. Online resources such as links to notable professional organizations and commonly used web sites and blogs are also included.
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BROWSING AND CATALOG SEARCHING BY CALL NUMBER RANGES
Call Numbers
- M20-M32 Music for piano alone
- M23 Sonatas
- M24 Suites
- M27 Variations
- M32.8-M39 Arrangements for piano
- M200-M204 Piano, 4 hands
- M207-M213 Arrangements for 4-hand piano
- M214-M216 2-piano music
- M1010 Piano with orchestra (full score)
- M1011 Piano with orchestra (2-piano reduction)
- M1110 Piano with string orchestra (full score)
- M1111 Piano with string orchestra (2-piano reduction)
- ML128.P3 Piano music–Bibliography
- ML132.P3 Piano music–Graded lists
- ML650-ML747 General: history and construction; music and playing
- MT220-MT258 Piano techniques (including teaching materials)
- MT745-MT758 Instruction and study for children (little used)
- MT130-MT145 Analytical guides to piano music
Subject Headings
- CONCERTOS (PIANO)
- PIANO
- PIANO--BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PIANO--CONSTRUCTION
- PIANO--FINGERING
- PIANO--HISTORY
- PIANO--INSTRUCTION AND STUDY
- PIANO--METHODS
- PIANO--METHODS--GROUP INSTRUCTION
- PIANO--METHODS (JAZZ)
- PIANO--METHODS--SELF INSTRUCTION
- PIANO--PERFORMANCE
- PIANO--PEDALING
- PIANO AND _____ MUSIC (for music with various instruments and piano)
- PIANO MAKERS
- PIANO MUSIC
- PIANO MUSIC (4 HANDS)
- PIANO MUSIC (PIANOS (2))
- PIANO MUSIC--19TH CENTURY (and other time periods)
- PIANO MUSIC--ANALYSIS, APPRECIATION
- PIANO MUSIC--BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PIANO MUSIC--HISTORY AND CRITICISM
- PIANO MUSIC--INTERPRETATION (PHRASING, DYNAMICS, ETC.)
- PIANO MUSIC, ARRANGED
- PIANO MUSIC (JAZZ)
- PIANO MUSIC, JUVENILE
- SONATAS (PIANO)
- SUITES (PIANO)
PRINT RESOURCES (in the Reference Room)
Reference Books
Hinson, Maurice. Guide to the Pianist’s Repertoire. 3rd ed. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000.
-REF. STACKS – ML128.P3 H5 2000.
Magrath, Jane. Pianist’s Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing, 1995.
-REF. STACKS – ML128.P3 M24 1995.
Morhange-Motchane, Marthe, ed. Thematic Guide to Piano Literature. 5 vols. New York:Schirmer, 1982.
-REF. STACKS – ML132.P3 T47 V.1-5.
Journals
American Music Teacher – REF. (CURRENT PERIODICALS) ML1.T33
Clavier - REF. (CURRENT PERIODICALS) ML1.T33
International Piano - REF. (CURRENT PERIODICALS) ML1.T33
Keyboard - REF. (CURRENT PERIODICALS) ML1.T33
Piano Guild Notes - REF. (CURRENT PERIODICALS) ML1.T33
Teaching Music - REF. (CURRENT PERIODICALS) ML1.T33
Directories
Musical America: International Directory of the Performing Arts - REF. STACKS – ML13.M83 2005.
***Provides a comprehensive list of music schools, summer music camps, music festivals, competitions, performance venues, and scholarship and financial aid information.
AUDIO-VISUAL RESOURCES
The piano [videorecording] / a presentation of Films for the Humanities & Sciences ; [produced by] TransTel. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [2005], c1997.
-DVD. Ask at desk: ML652 .P53 2005
Glenn Gould [videorecording] : on and off the record.
-DVD. Ask at desk: ML417 .G68 G64 1999
Glenn Gould [videorecording] : the alchemist / a film by Bruno Monsaingeon ; réalisation, directed by François-Louis Ribadeau.
-DVD. Ask at desk: ML417 .G682 G54 2002
Daniel Barenboim [videorecording] : 50 years on stage.
-DVD. Ask at desk: ML417 .D36 2004
Daniel Barenboim [videorecording] : on Beethoven Masterclasses.
-DVD. Ask at desk: M23 .B4 B37 2006 v.1 – 6
Alfred Brendel [videorecording] : in portrait.
-DVD. Ask at desk: ML417 .B855 A64 2001
Alfred Brendel [videorecording].
-DVD. Ask at desk: M23 .B416 op.106 2003
Wilhelm Kempff [videorecording] : Schumann, Beethoven, Bartók.
-DVD. Ask at desk: M21 .W55 2003
Artur Rubinstein [videorecording] : historic film of Rubinstein in performance.
-DVD. Ask at desk: M20 .A78 2005
Martha Argerich and friends [videorecording] original production by LOFT Music ; DVD production by Media Hyperium.
-DVD. Ask at desk: M5.A65 M3 2000
Freeing the caged bird [videorecording] : developing well-coordinated, injury-preventive piano technique / [presented by] Wingsound ; executive producer & director, Barbara Lister-Sink. Winston-Salem, NC : Wingsound, c2005.
-DVD. Ask at desk: MT225 .F74 2005
The Verbier Festival & Academy 10th anniversary piano extravaganza [videorecording]
-DVD. Ask at desk: M216 .V46 2004
Two titans of the keyboard [videorecording] / CBC Home Video.
-DVD. Ask at desk: M21 .T85 2002
Lili Kraus in recital [videorecording] = Lili Kraus en récital / Société Radio-Canada.
-DVD. Ask at desk: M21 .L55 2005
Georges Cziffra [videorecording] / Ideale Audience International ; IMG Artists ; BBC.
-DVD. Ask at desk: M21 .C98 G42 2003
Samson François [videorecording] / Ideale Audience International ; IMG Artists.
-DVD. Ask at desk: M1010 .S355 2003
Knowing the score [videorecording] / with Malcolm Bilson.
-DVD. Ask at desk: ML417 .B55 A3 2005
Frédéric Chopin [videorecording] : a life to remember / presented and performed by Alan Kogosowski.
-DVD. Ask at desk: ML410 .C54 K64 2003
Frederic Chopin [videorecording] : a life to remember.
-DVD. Ask at desk: ML410 .C54 K64 2004
ONLINE RESOURCES
American Pianists Association – http://www.americanpianists.org
Piano Street – http://www.pianostreet.com
Playing the Piano, Playing with Fire? – http://eeshop.unl.edu/text/musicmed.txt
Piano Education Page – http://pianoeducation.org
Piano World – http://pianoworld.com
International Piano Archives - http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/IPAM/
Also see:
American Federation of Musicians – http://www.afm.org
National Association for Music Education – http://www.menc.org
Music Teachers National Association – http://www.mtna.org
*Call numbers apply to UT held items only
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Pauline Bayne and Nathalie Hristov, Revised August 2007

