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Pauer’s concise primer addresses posture, hand position, touch, technical execution, practice, expression, ornaments, sight-reading, studies and repertory. It concludes with guidance on classical sonata study, stylistic schools and the history of the pianoforte and its predecessors.

Shawn’s biography is designed to integrate Bernstein’s life with the full range of his musical activity rather than allowing the conductor, celebrity or Broadway composer to eclipse the others. Written by a composer and pianist, it gives unusual weight to the scores themselves, moving from early formation at…

This dossier covers Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician, a significant bibliographic resource associated with Barry Seldes. The volume is useful because it helps place its subject within a wider historical, analytical or documentary context and complements the rest of the Library catalogue with a…

This dossier covers Leonard Bernstein, a significant bibliographic resource associated with Paul Myers. The volume is useful because it helps place its subject within a wider historical, analytical or documentary context and complements the rest of the Library catalogue with a clearly identified title-and-author record.

Leonard Bernstein: A Biography is a substantial biographical source on Leonard Bernstein. Comprehensive biography by a long-time colleague and television producer, integrating Bernstein’s conducting, composition, Broadway work, education, recordings, politics and private life with extensive first-hand access. The dossier treats the book not merely as a life narrative…

Bernstein: A Biography is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Leonard Bernstein. The dossier identifies the work by author and subject and places it within the history of performance, composition, institutions, repertory and reception where relevant. It is especially useful for distinguishing primary testimony, later recollection and…

Manual of Harmony is a historical teaching text in harmony / theory textbook, representing the conservatory-oriented theoretical practice of the nineteenth or early twentieth century. It is organized to move from definitions and worked examples toward increasingly complex compositional applications.

Treatise on Fugue is a historical teaching text in fugue / contrapuntal theory, representing the conservatory-oriented theoretical practice of the nineteenth or early twentieth century. It is organized to move from definitions and worked examples toward increasingly complex compositional applications.