For those who are interested in learning more about piano playing, teaching or music learning, here is a short Selected Book List for your reading interest and pleasure:

FOR SERIOUS PIANISTS AND PIANO TEACHERS

PIANO HISTORY –
Title: The New Grove: The Piano
Publishing Information: W.W. Norton and Company, New York, London.

PIANO TECHNIQUE –
Title: On Piano Playing: Motion, Sound, and Expression
Author: György Sándor
Publishing Information: New York: Schirmer Books, 1981.

Title: With Your Own Two Hands
Author: Seymour Bernstein

Title: Piano
Author: Louis Kentner
Publishing Information: Kahn & Averill Publishers, 2001

Title: Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments
(Original Title in German: “Ein Versuch über die wahre Art das Klavier zu Spielen”)
Author: C.P.E. Bach
Publishing Date: 1753

Title: A History of Theories of Teaching Piano Technic
Author: Roger Crager Boardman
Publishing Information: PhD Dissertation, New York University, 1954.

Title: Great Pianists on Piano Playing: Godowsky, Hofmann, Lhevinne, Paderewski, and 24 Other Legendary Performers
Compiled by: James Francis Cooke
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc., New York

PIANO PEDAGOGY –
Title: The Well-Tempered Keyboard Teacher
Authors: Marieene Uszler, Stewart Gordon, Scott McBride Smith
Publisher: Schirmer Books, New York

PIANO PERFORMANCE AND PRACTICE –
Title: The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music From The Heart
Author: Madeline Bruser
Publisher: Bell Tower, New York

Title: The Pianist’s Talent: A New Approach To Piano Playing Based On The Principles Of F Matthias Alexander and Raymond Thiberge
Author: Harold Taylor
Publisher Information: Kahn & Averill, London

Title: The Inner Game of Music
Author: Barry Green, W. Timothy Gallwey
Publisher Information: Pan Books, 1986.

Title: The Complete Pianist: Body, Mind, Synthesis
Author: Ruth C. Friedberg
Publisher Information: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1993.

SIGHT-READING –
Article Title: “Sight Reading- A Trying Time for Teacher and Pupil”
Author: Paul Richardson
Website Link: http://www.musicteachers.co.uk/resources/sightr.pdf

TEACHING –
Title: The Art of Successful Teaching: A Blend of Content and Context
Author: Tim Lautzenheiser

PHILOSOPHY
Title: Music: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Nicholas Cook
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Title: Source Readings In Music History, Volume I: Greek Views Of Music
Editor: Thomas J. Mathiesen
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York
(Greek philosophers -Plato, Aristotle, Cleonides etc.- on music; NOT an easy reading)

Title: Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Edward Craig
Publisher: Oxford University Press

LANGUAGE –
Title: German For Musicians
Author: Josephine Barber
Publisher: Faber Music, London

Title: Graded French Reader: Première étape
Author: Camille Bauer
Publisher: D.C. Heath and Company

Title: Better Reading French
Author: Annie Heminway
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

DICTION / SINGING–
Title: The Singer’s Manual of English Diction
Author: Madeleine Marshall
Publisher: Schirmer Books

Title: On Studying Singing
Author: Sergius Kagen
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc., New York

MUSIC EDUCATION-
Title: Music, Gender and Education
Author: Lucy Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,

FOR SERIOUS PARENTS

MUSIC EDUCATION –
Title: Your Musical Child: Inspiring Kids to Play and Sing for Keeps
Author: Jessica Baron Turner
(Highly recommended)

Title: Music, Gender, Education
Author: Lucy Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

FOR GENERAL READING

MUSIC –
Title: Music: Healing The Rift
Author: Ivan Hewitt
Publisher: Continuum, New York, London

POSITIVITY–
Title: Positive Thinking
Author: Vera Peiffer
Publisher Information: Element, Harper Collins Publishers Limited

Title: You Can Heal Your Life
Author: Louise L. Hay
Publisher Information: Hay HOuse, Inc., 2004.

Title: How To Have A Beautiful Mind
Author: Edward de Bono
Publisher: Random House, London.