Subject Guide: Keyboard

• Chaffin, Roger.  Practicing Perfection: Memory and Piano Performance.  Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, c2002.
  [MT220.C473 2002] or [available as an electronic book ; click title to view]
• Dees, Pamela Youngdahl. Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
  [Music Reference ML128 P5 D44 2002]
• Gillespie, John.  Five Centuries of Keyboard Music; An Historical Survey of Music for Harpsichord or Piano.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1965.
  [ML 700.G47]
• Hinson, Maurice. Piano in Chamber Ensemble: An Annotated Guide. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1978.
  [Music Reference ML128 C4Z Z99 H66]
• Hinson, Maurice. Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 2000.
  [electronic book ; click title to view]
• McCalla, James.  Twentieth-century Chamber Music.  New York:  Schirmer Books, 1996.
  [ML1106.M33 1996]
• Rowland, David, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Piano. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998.
  [ML650 C3 1998]

These titles may be of special interest to keyboardists.  To locate other music titles, browse Pacificat for the subject "Music Periodicals".

• Clavier
• Early Music
• Keyboard
• Medical Problems of Performing Artists
• Piano & Keyboard

• The Piano Page – A site from the Piano Technicians Guild that has links to many other piano-related sites.
• The American Guild of Organists – The home page of the organization, this site offers links to many other organ-related sites.
• British Harpsichord Society - Includes links to information on the harpsichord, its mechanics, music resources, and links for ornamentation of Baroque music.

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• Violin and piano music
• Violin music
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