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PRACTICE BOOKS/CHARTS:
Madeline Bruser, The Art of Practicing: A Guide
to Making Music from the Heart
Burton Kaplan, Musician's Practice Log
Burton Kaplan, A Rhythm Sight-Reader: Bk 1, Bk 2
Burton Kaplan, Practicing for Artistic Success:
The Musician's Guide to Self-Empowerment
Stuart Edward Dunkel, The Audition Process: Anxiety
Management and Coping Strategies
(Juilliard Performance Guides, No 3)
Margret Elson, Passionate Practice: The Musician's Guide
to Learning, Memorizing, and Performing
Jack Grassel, Power Practicing
Don Greene, Audition Success (A Theatre Arts Book)
Don Greene, Performance Success: Performing Your Best
Under Pressure (Theatre Arts)


Sheet Music
Suzuki Violin Books & CD's
Barbara Barber Books & CDs
Kerstin Wartberg Books
William & Constance Starr, String pedagogy New!
Student Violin Concertos
Violin Cadenzas
Violin Etudes
Violin Scale Books
Violin Sonatas

Suzuki Viola Books & CD's
Viola Etudes
Viola Scale Books
Viola da Gamba

Suzuki Piano Accompaniments
Suzuki MIDI Discs
Orchestral Excerpts
Scores
Violin, Viola and Piano Theory
Manuscript Paper
FREE Sheet Music
FREE Guitar music
FREE Viola music
FREE Fiddle music
FREE Anime

String Pedagogy
Jazz, Gypsy, Rock Violin
Fiddle Tunes
Fake Books
Suzuki Guitar Books & CD's
Guitar Sheet Music & CD's
Mandolin Sheet Music
Banjo Sheet Music
Popular Music

Suzuki Piano Books & CD's
Piano Etudes
Maurice Hinson, Piano pedagogy New!
Piano Scale Books
Jazz Piano
Advanced Chamber Literature
Advanced Piano Literature
Advanced Viola Literature
Advanced Violin Literature
Chamber Music - Easier
Duets: Vl/vl, Vl/vla, Vl/vc, Vla/vc, Vl/guitar
Trios with Viola
Four Violins New!

CD Sheet Music:
Violin Concertos: The Ultimate Collection [ Contents ]
Violin Methods: The Ultimate Collection [ Contents ]
Violin Sonatas: The Ultimate Collection [ Contents ]
Choral, Opera, Orchestral, Piano, Violin
Quartets

Composers:
Amy Beach: Representative Works
John Cage: Representative Works
Nannerl, Fanny, Clara
Women Composers New!



Bronstein, Raphael. The Science of Violin Playing

Bruser, Madeline and Yehudi Menuhin. The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart

Campbell, Margaret. The Great Violinists

Conable, Barbara. What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body: The Practical Application of Body Mapping & the Alexander Technique to Making Music

Costantakos, Chris. Demetrios Constantine Dounis: His Method in Teaching the Violin

Courvoisier, Karl. The Technique of Violin Playing: The Joachim Method New!

Donington, Robert. The History of Violin Playing from Its Origins to 1761 and Its Relationship to the Violin and Violin Music

Donington, Robert. String Playing in Baroque Music

Dounis, Demetrius Constantine. The Dounis Collection New!

Feinstein, Anthony. Michael Rabin: America's Virtuoso Violinist New!

Flesch, Carl. Art of Violin Playing: Book One

Flesch, Carl. Art of Violin Playing: Artistic Realization and Instruction/Book 2

Flesch, Carl. Memoirs of Carl Flesch

Freymuth, Malva. Mental Practice and Imagery for Musicians

Galamian, Ivan. Principles of Violin Playing and Teaching

Gerle, Robert. The Art of Bowing Practice: The Expressive Bow Technique

Gerle, Robert. Art of Practicing the Violin: With Useful Hints for All String Players

Gigante, Charles. Manual of Orchestral Bowing

Grappelli, Stephane. With Only My Violin: The Memoirs of Stephane Grappelli

Green, Elizabeth, Judith Galamian, Josef Gingold. Miraculous Teacher: Ivan Galamian & the Meadownmount Experience

Green, Elizabeth. Orchestral Bowings and Routines

Greene, Don. Audition Success: An Olympic Sports Psychologist Teaches Performing Artists How to Win

Mischakoff Heiles, Anne Mischa Mischakoff: Journeys of a Concertmaster New!

Kloss, Sherry. Jascha Heifetz Through My Eyes New!

Kozinn, Allan. Mischa Elman and the Romantic Style

Lieberman, Julie. You are Your Instrument

Malan, Roy. Efrem Zimbalist: A Life New!

Martens, Frederick. Violin Mastery: Interviews with Heifetz, Auer, Kreisler and Others New!

Menuhin, Yehudi. Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years Later

Menuhin, Yehudi and William Primrose. Violin & Viola (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides)

Milstein, Nathan. From Russia to the West: The Musical Memoirs and Reminiscences of Nathan Milstein

Mischakoff, Mischa. Journeys of a Concertmaster New!

Mozart, Leopold. A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing

Norris, Richard, M.D. The Musician's Survival Manual: A Guide to Preventing and Treating Injuries in Instrumentalists

Paull, Barbara. The Athletic Musician

Pougin, Arthur. The Life and Music of Pierre Rode, Containing an Account of Rode, French Violinist: Translation of Notice Sur Rode, Violiniste Francais, 1874 New!

Roth, Henry. Violin Virtuosos: From Paganini to the 21st Century

Salerno-Sonnenberg, Nadja. Nadja, on My Way

Sand, Barbara. Teaching Genius: Dorothy Delay and the Making of a Musician

Schueneman, Bruce. The French Violin School: Viotti, Rode, Kreutzer, Baillot and Their Contemporaries

Silvela, Zdenko. A New History of Violin Playing: The Vibrato and Lambert Massart's Revolutionary Discovery New!

Simon, Charnan. Midori: Brilliant Violinist

Steinhardt, Arnold. Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony

Steinhardt, Arnold. Violin Dreams New!

See also: Complete Quartets on Favorite Recordings page.

Stern, Isaac with Chaim Potok. My First 79 Years

Stolba, Marie. A History of the Violin Etude to About 1800

Stowell, Robin. Performing Beethoven

Stowell, Robin. Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Schwarz, Boris. Great Masters of the Violin

Szigeti, Joseph. Szigeti on the Violin

Szigeti, Joseph. With Strings Attached: Reminiscences and Reflections

Winthrop, Laurence. Arthur Grumiaux: gloire de l'école belge du violon

Yampolsky, I.M. Principles of Violin Fingering

Ysaye, Antoine. Ysaye: His Life, Work and Influence





Agopian, Edmond: The no time to practice technique companion

ASTA String Syllabus 2003

Bachman, A.: Encyclopedia of Violin

Baker, T.: Schirmer Pocket Manual of Musical Terms

Barlow: Easy Baroque Duets

Barnes, Gail: Applying Research to the Teachings and Playing of Stringed Instruments

Carolyn M. Barrett, Ph.D, The Magic of Matsumoto: The Suzuki Method of Education

Barrett, H.: The Viola

Bauman, Susan C.: In Search of the Japanese Spirit in Talent Education

Behrand, L & Sheila Keats: Suzuki Approach, The

Bigler, C & Lloyd-Watts: Studying Suzuki Piano: More than Music

Bigler, C & Lloyd-Watts: Ornamentation

Bodman, Lyman: Essays on Violin Pedagogy

Boyk, James: To Hear Ourselves as Others Hear Us

Bron, Zakhar: Art of the Etude, The

Bruser, Madeline: The Art of Practicing : A Guide to Making Music from the Heart

Butler, Mimi: The complete guide to running a private music studio

Butler, Mimi: The complete guide to making more money in the private music studio

Butler, Mimi: Mimi Butler's Homepage to purchase books if they are not available used, on Amazon

Cahill, Greg: Making Your Living as a String Player

Colquhoun, Frona; What the Students Taught the Teacher

Comeau, Gilles, Ph.D.: 10 Teachers' Viewpoints on Suzuki Piano

Clifford A. Cook, Suzuki Education in Action: A Story of Talent Training from Japan (An Exposition-university book)

Dalton, David: Playing the Viola, Conversations with William Primrose

Eiche, John F.: The Bach Chaconne for Solo Violin

Fest, Beverly Tucker: Suzuki Pianist's List of Supplementary Materials

Findlay, Elsa: Rhythm and Movement (Dalcroze Eurythmics)

Fink, Lorraine: A Parent's guide to String Instrument Study

Gerle, Robert: Art of Practicing the Violin, The

Gerle, Robert: Art of Bowing Practice, The

Gilligan, Judy & Wagstaff: Violin Verses

Goldberg, Milton: The violin column: A collection of articles for both teachers and parents focusing on care of the violin, practicing, technique, and motivation

Green, Barry: Inner Game of Music, The

Green, Barry: Mastery of Music, The

Grilli, Susan: Preschool in the Suzuki Spirit

Havas, Kato: New Approach to Violin Playing, A

Havas, Kato: Stage Fright

Havas, Kato: Twelve Lesson Course, The

Hermann, Evelyn: Shinichi Suzuki The Man and His Philosophy

Honda, Masaaki, M.D.: Shinichi Suzuki: Man of Love

Honda, Masaaki, M.D.: Suzuki Changed My Life

Honda, Masaaki, M.D.: Vehicle of Music, The

Horvath, Janet: Playing (less) Hurt

Hunt, Sandy: 101 Sizzling Tips for Excellence on the Violin

Ibuka, Masaru: Kindergarten Is Too Late!

Kataoka, Haruko: How to Teach Beginners

Kataoka, Haruko: Sensibility and Education

Kataoka, Haruko: My Thoughts on Suzuki Piano School

Kataoka, Haruko: My Thoughts on Suzuki Piano Technique

Kemper, Susan: Between Parent & Teacher

Kempter, Susan: How Muscles Learn

Kendall, Catherine Wolff: More Stories of Composers

Kendall, Catherine Wolff: Stories of Composers

Kendall, Catherine Wolff: Stories of Women Composers

Kendall, John: Suzuki Violin Method in American Music Education, The

Kennedy, Michael: Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music

Kenneson, Claude: Musical Prodigies

Kochevitsky, George: Art of Piano Playing

Kolneder, Walter: Amadeus Book of the Violin

Koppelman, Doris: Introducing Suzuki Piano

Kreitman, Edward: Teaching from the Balance Point

Landers, Ray: Is Suzuki Education Working in America

Landers, Ray: The Talent Education School of Shinichi Suzuki: An Analysis: Application of Its Philosophy and Methods to All Areas of Instruction (Exposition-Banner Book)

Lester, Joel: Bach's Works for Solo Violin

Liebermann, Julie Lyonn: Contemporary Violinist, The

Liebermann, Julie Lyonn: Improvising Violin

Liebermann, Julie Lyonn: Planet Musician

Liebermann, Julie Lyonn: You Are Your Instrument: The Definitive Musician's Guide

Loft, Abram: How to Succeed in an Ensemble

Meyer, Carolyn McCall: Group Lessons for Suzuki: Violin and Viola

Menuhin, William Primrose: Violin & Viola (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides)

Merrill & Brandt: Pre-Twinkle Book, The New

Mills, Elizabeth: In the Suzuki Style: A Manual for Raising Musical Consciousness in Children

Mills, Elizabeth, S. Therese Murphy: Suzuki Concept: An Introduction to a Successful Method for Early Music Education

Morris, Carroll: Suzuki Parent's Diary: Or How I Survived My First 10,000 Twinkles

Mozart, Leopold: A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing

Mullins, Shirley: Teaching Music, the Human Experience

Nathan, Amy: Young Musician's Survival Guide

Nelson, Sheila M.: Violin and Viola: History, Structure, Techniques

Norris, Richard, M.D.: Musician's Survival Guide

Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Library, Vol. 1

Perkins, Marianne Murry: A Comparison of Violin Playing Techniques: Kato Havas, Paul Rolland, and Shinichi Suzuki

Pernecky, Jack M. & Fink: Teaching the Fundaments of Violin Playing

Pomer, Vic: Le Violon Sans Douleur

Portafekas & Marlow: Making Music with Your Child

Powell, Mary C.: Focus on Suzuki Piano (About Suzuki)

Primrose, William: Walk on the North Side

Richards, Cynthia: How to Get Your Child to Practice without Resorting to Violence

Rickman, Shirlee: Parent Orientation Handbook

Riley, M.: History of the Viola, Vol. 1

Riley, M.: History of the Viola, Vol. 2

Rolland, Paul: Basic Principles of Violin Playing

Rolland, Paul: Teaching of Action in String Playing

Ross, Barry: A Violinist's Guide to Exquisite Intonation

Sand, Barbara Lourie:
Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay & the Making of a Musician

Schneiderman, Barbara: Confident Music Performance

Sherer, Lon: Practicing, a Liturgy of Self-Learning

Sherman, Marc: Non-Musical Notation for Suzuki Violin Parents (Vols. 1-3)

Sherman, Marc: Non-Musical Notation for Suzuki Violin Parents - Popular Songs for Violin

Sloan, Kay Collier: They're Rarely Too Young..and Never Too Old "To Twinkle"

Starr, William: Adventures in Music Reading for Violin, Bk. 1

Starr, William: Adventures in Music Reading for Violin, Bk. 2

Starr, William: The Suzuki Violinist: A Guide for Teachers and Parents

Starr, William, Constance Star: To Learn With Love: A Companion for Suzuki Parents

Steinhardt, Arnold: Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony

Steinschaden, Bruno: Ear Training and Violin Playing

Suzuki, Shinichi: Ability Development from Age Zero

Suzuki, Shinichi: Man and Talent: Search into the Unknown

Suzuki, Shinichi: Nurtured by Love

Suzuki, Shinichi: How to Teach Suzuki Piano

Suzuki, Waltraud: My Life with Suzuki

Swafford, Jan: Vintage Guide to Classical Music

Syllabus of Examinations 2003 Royal School of Music

Tanaka, Shigeki: Everything Depends on How You Raise Them

Timmerman, Craig: Journey Down the Kreisler Highway: Reflections on the Teachings of Shinichi Suzuki

Wagstaff, Diane: Games and Motivation for the Suzuki Violin Student

Wickes, Linda: The Genius of Simplicity: Suzuki Method (About Suzuki)

Wilson, Charlene: Teaching Suzuki Cello: A Manual for Teacher and Parents

Yelin, Joy: Movement that Fits (Dalcroze Eurythmics)

Young, Phillis: Playing the String Game

Young, Phillis: String Play, The

Yurko, Michiko: No H in Snake: Music Theory for Children

Shinichi Suzuki: His Speeches and Essays (About Suzuki)

Where Love Is Deep: The Writings of Shin'Ichi Suzuki by Kyoko Selden (Translator)




For Children:

Margaret Keith, I can play my violin just as well as Jeremy can!: The Suzuki way

Catherine Wolff Kendall, Stories of composers for young musicians

M. Parkinson, Mommy , Can We Practice Now?






** Features articles on keyboards, major instruments, and theory and history which are geared to assist private, studio, secondary and college or university teachers. See Music Teachers National Association homepage for back issues.






PIANO
Also see:
Suzuki piano books and CD's
Suzuki piano accompaniments (to violin and viola books)
Piano Literature
Advanced Piano Literature

  • Adams, Noah: Piano Lessons: Music, Love, & True Adventures

  • Agay, Denes: The Art of Teaching Piano

  • Agay, Denes: Teaching Piano : A Comprehensive Guide and Reference Book for the Instructor (2 Vol's)

  • Albergo, Cathy: Intermediate Piano Repertoire: A Guide for Teaching

  • Ascari, Dino: The Art of Effective Piano Teaching

  • Baker-Jordan, Martha: Practical Piano Pedagogy: The Definitive Text for Piano Teachers and Pedagogy Students

  • Bastien, James: How to teach piano successfully

  • Berman, Boris: Notes from the Pianist's Bench

  • Bernstein, Seymour: With Your Own Two Hands: Self-Discovery Through Music

  • Bree, Malwine: The Leschetizky Method : A Guide to Fine and Correct Piano Playing

  • Cooke, James Francis: Great Pianists on Piano Playing : Godowsky, Hofmann, Lhevinne, Paderewski and 24 Other Legendary Performers (Great Pianists: In Their Own Words)

  • Eigeldinger, Jean-Jacques: Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by his Pupils

  • Fink, Seymour: Mastering Piano Technique : A Guide for Students, Teachers and Performers

  • Friskin, James: Music for the Piano: A Handbook of Concert and Teaching Material from 1580 to 1952

  • Gieseking, Walter: Piano Technique [Consisting of the Two Complete Books: The Shortest Way to Pianistic Perfection and Rhythmics, Dynamics, Pedal and Other Problems of Piano]

  • Gordon, Stewart: Mastering the Art of Performance: A Primer for Musicians

  • Hofmann, Josef: Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered

  • Horowitz, Joseph: Arrau on Music and Performance (Great Pianists: In Their Own Words)

  • Lhevinne, Josef: Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing

  • Lyke, James: Creative Piano Teaching

  • Magrath, Jane: Pianist's Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature

  • Neuhaus, Heinrich: The Art of Piano Playing

  • Newsam, David and Barbara: Making Money Teaching Music

  • Rabin, Rhoda: At the Beginning: Teaching Piano to the Very Young Child

  • Rosenblum, Sandra: Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist

  • Rosen, Charles: Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications (Music-Scholarship and Performance)

  • Rubinstein, Anton, Teresa Carreno: The Art of Piano Pedaling: Two Classic Guides

  • Schonberg, Harold: The Great Pianists

  • Mach, Elyse: Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves (Dover Books on Music, Music History)

  • Uszler, Marienne: The Well-Tempered Keyboard Teacher

  • Westney, William: The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self

  • Wolff, Konrad: Masters of the Keyboard: Individual Style Elements in the Piano Music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin and Brahams (Midland Book)




    VIOLA





  • Alexanian, Diran: Complete Cello Technique : The Classic Treatise on Cello Theory and Practice

  • Chippendale, Lisa: Yo-Yo Ma: A Cello Superstar Brings Music to the World (People to Know)

  • Laird, Paul: The Baroque Cello Revival: An Oral History

  • Leogrande, Dennis: Cello Extensions for the Student

  • Ma, Yo-Yo: Yo-Yo Ma - Inspired by Bach No. 1, The Music Garden (Cello Suite 1) (1998) VHS

  • Mantel, Gerhard , Barbara Haimberger Thiem: Cello Technique: Principles and Forms of Movement

  • Pleeth, William: Cello (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides)

  • Potter, Louis: Art of Cello Playing

  • Sazer, Victor: New Directions in Cello Playing

  • Schonberg, Harold: The Cambridge Companion to the Cello (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Robin Stowell (Editor), Jonathan Cross (Editor)



    RESEARCH TOOLS

    Berlioz, Hector and Richard Strauss. Treatise on Instrumentation

    Berry, Wallace. Form in Music, Second Edition

    Burkhart, Charles. Anthology for Musical Analysis


    Burney, Charles: The following works are out of print though accessible via established music libraries or interlibrary loan (with fees attached, in some cases). But to get titles and ISPN numbers, Amazon.com offers the following:

    Music, men, and manners in France and Italy, 1770 : being the journal written by Charles Burney during a tour through those countries undertaken to collect material for a general history of music
    Memoirs of Dr Charles Burney, 1726-1769
    The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney: 1751-1784
    Dr. Charles Burney's Continental Travels, 1770-1772
    An eighteenth-century musical tour in Central Europe and the Netherlands: being Dr. Charles Burney's account of his musical experiences
    An eighteenth-century musical tour in Central Europe and the Netherlands : being Dr. Charles Burney's account of his musical experiences
    Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio, Including Translations of His Principal Letters.: Including Translations of His Principal Letters (Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series)
    A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period (1789)
    The great Dr. Burney; his life, his travels, his works, his family, and his friends by Percy Alfred Scholes
    Dr. Burney As Critic and Historian of Music by Kerry S. Grant
    The only book I could locate about Burney which is not out of print: Dr. Charles Burney: A Literary Biography by Roger H. Lonsdale


    Donington, Robert. Baroque Music, Style and Performance: A Handbook

    Fux, Joseph. Study of Counterpoint

    Grout, Donald and Claude V. Palisca. A History of Western Music, Sixth Edition. Newest ed. of the Grout, 7th ed., Burkholder

    Jeppesen, Knud. Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century

    Kennedy, Michael. The Oxford Dictionary of Music

    Machlis, Joseph. Introduction to Contemporary Music

    Neumann, Frederick. Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music: With Special Emphasis on J. S. Bach

    Perle, George. Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern

    Pincherle, Marc. Vivaldi: Genius of the Baroque

    Piston, Walter. Harmony

    Plantinga, Leon. Romantic Music: A History of Musical Style in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Norton Introduction to Music History)

    Rameau, Jean Philippe. Treatise on Harmony

    Randel, Don Michael. The New Harvard Dictionary of Music

    Rosen, Charles. Sonata Forms

    Rosen, Charles. The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven

    Slonimsky, Nicolas. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

    Turek, Ralph. The Elements of Music




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