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Last Updated: 31-Oct-2012

Find recordings, printed music, books, and articles on playing and researching the piano.

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Recordings

Find circulating CDs in the SearchWorks catalog.

  • Narrow your search results to the music recordings format and the Music Library location.

Stream piano music from one of the streaming audio databases.

Research historical performances in the Archive of Recorded Sound.

Notable large recording sets:

[Netherlands?] : Philips Classics, p1999.
Music » Recordings » MCD 6672
200 CDs.
[S.l] : RCA Red Seal ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by BMG Classics, p1999.
Music » Recordings » MCD 22201 BOOK
94 CDs.

New CD arrivals:

  1. Medtner. 2012

    Music » Recordings » MCD 24641

  2. Beethoven. 2012

    Music » Recordings » MCD 24522

  3. Music » Recordings » MCD 24591

New DVD arrivals:

  1. Malcolm Bilson & Elizabeth Field ; produced by Park Productions, Ithaca College ; director & director of photography, Karen Rodriguez ; producer, Carol Jennings. 2011

    Music » Recordings » MDVD 1543

  2. Idéale Audience ... [et al.] ; in association with A Plus Image present ; a film by Gérald Caillat ; produced by Hélène Le Cœur, Marianna Rowińska, Joanna Plesnar ; a Franco-Poland co-production: Idéale Audience, Plesnar Films. 2010

    Music » Recordings » MDVD 1402

  3. Ludwig van Beethoven. 2010

    Music » Recordings » MDVD 1437

Printed music

View printable online score collections here.

Find circulating piano music in the SearchWorks catalog.

For adult beginners, try the Adult All-In-One course.

Browse in the stacks:

M 20 Miscellaneous collections
M 21 Collections of original compositions, multiple composers
M 22 Collections of original compositions, single composers
M 23 Sonatas
M 24 Suites
M 25 Other pieces
M 26 Piano, 1 hand
M 27-30 Variations; marches; dances
M 32-39 Arrangements; transcriptions
M 200-204 Piano, 4 hands
M 214 2 pianos, 2 performers
M 1010 Piano concerto scores
M 1011 Piano concertos, with orchestra arranged for 2nd piano
M 1380 Easy pieces; works for children

Reference works

2nd ed. New York : Routledge, 2003.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML102 .P5 E53 2003
Focuses on the piano as an instrument, including construction, individual makers, and companies.

Lists of published music:

3rd ed. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2000.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128 .P3 H5 2000
Enl. ed., 1st Midland ed. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1993.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128 .P3 H66 M9 1993
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1990.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128.P3H66 P57 1990
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128 .P3 P38 1999
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1981.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128.P3 M14
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1983.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128.P3 H66 M98 1983

See all piano reference books:

  1. Marcello Cofini. 1995

    Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128 .P3 C65 1995 ...

  2. Gosudarstvennai͡a biblioteka SSSR imeni V.I. Lenina, Otdel notnykh izdaniĭ i zvukozapiseĭ ; [sostaviteli G.B. Koltypina, L.V. Li, E.N. Filippova ; redaktor G.B. Koltypina].. 1983

    Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128 .P3 G67 1983

  3. by Keith C. Ward ; Michael J. Budds, editor. 2010

    Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128 .P3 W37 2010

  4. Gilles Comeau ; contributors, Nisreen Jardaneh ... [et al.].. 2009

    Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128 .P3 C66 2009

  5. Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128 .P3 H27 2008

Books and articles

Browse in the stacks:

ML 417 Biographies of pianists
ML 649-747 Books about pianos, piano makers, piano music, and playing
MT 220-258 Teaching systems, methods, exercises

New books on the piano:

  1. di Piero Rattalino. 2012

    Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML102 .P5 R37 2012

  2. bearbeitet von Elfrid Gleim ; mit einem Beitrag von Michael Latcham. 2012

    Music » Stacks » ML462 .N9 G457 2012

  3. Jon Verbalis. 2012

    Music » Stacks » MT232 .V47 2012

  4. Neal Peres da Costa. 2012

  5. edited by Richard Paul Anderson. 2012

    Music » Stacks » ML700 .P53 2012

Articles

Find articles on piano playing, pianists, instrument makers and more, using the online music indexes here.

See a list of keyboard periodicals here.