Pianists Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature

By Jane Magrath

Book Overview

This reference book is an invaluable resource for teachers, students and performers for evaluating and selecting piano solo literature. Concise and thoroughly researched, thousands of works, from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882846558
• ISBN13: 9780882846552
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Alfred Music
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Love This Book

I can't believe how much I use this book. Don't know how I got along without it. At 57 I still take piano lessons, just to keep me going back to the piano with something new. I love looking up all the new music in this book and seeing the difficulty level and recommendations for other similar works. Every composer is included and I am very impressed with the detail about all of their compositions.

Excellent Source

This is an outstanding source book for the piano teacher. I have to respond to earlier reviewers in criticizing the collection because it contains only elementary music. If someone purchases this guide thinking they are going to have a list of elementary piano repertoire, they will be very disappointed. The book contains standard teaching literature that is considered elementary through early advanced. Magrath even titles the book "Pianist's Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature". The term "standard teaching and performance literature" implies that this is not a source of advanced literature. Although, for the average piano student in the United States, this source will cover literature that would be appropriate for them through high school (except for the very precocious). Each piece or collection is given a level of difficulty number, a brief synopsis and the publisher is listed. If you are a piano teacher, you will welcome many of the obscure or forgotten pieces that are classified in the book. There are many excellent teaching pieces that are not normally seen in the best selling collections.

Great book on solo literature for the piano

As a music teacher, I found this book to be a perfect guide to the selection of piano literature from elementary through advanced repertoire. The coverage is comprehensive, representing four periods of music history. It's a pretty solid guide for the experienced piano instructor as well as an important handbook for thw beginning instructor. It is also a dependable sourcebook for the advancing piano student. Highly recommended.

The Creme de la Creme!

Amazing amount of information, great for teachers and performers! It grades the music from levels 1-10 so if your a teacher you can find the perfect song for your student. Explains all the required understanding of the performer and teaching tips for the piece. It's an invaluable resource for any pianist!