Piano: A Starting Guide

Solo piano (1 performer):

• Collections: M20-22
• Sonatas: M23
• Suites: M24
• Individual works: M25
• Piano one hand: M26
• Variations: M27
• Marches and dances: M28-32
• Arrangements for piano solo: M32.8-39.6

Piano 3 or more hands: M200-213
2 or more pianos: M214-216
Solo instrument with piano accompaniment: M219-285
Trios with piano: M310-344
          Piano trios (piano, violin, violoncello): M312
Quartets with piano: M410-449
          Piano quartets (piano, violin, viola, violoncello): M412
Quintets with piano: M510-549
          Piano quintets (piano, 2 violins, viola, violoncello): M512
Sextets with piano: M610-649
Septets with piano: M710-749
Octets with piano: M810-849
Nonets and larger combinations with piano: M910-949
Piano concertos:

• With orchestra: M1010
• With orchestra (2-piano scores): M1011
• With string orchestra: M1110
• With string orchestra (2-piano scores): M1111
• Cadenzas: M1010.5, M1110.5

Note: For concertos for other instruments with piano reduction, see the Pathfinder for that instrument.

Piano music for children:

• Solo piano: M1378-1380
• Piano 4 hands, 2 or more pianos: M1389-1390

Vocal music with piano:

• Operas and musicals (vocal scores with piano): M1503, 1507-1508
• Solo voice with orchestra (vocal scores): M1614, 1616, 1618
• Songs with piano: M1620-1622
• Popular music vocal collections with piano: M1630.18
• Oratorios (vocal scores): M2003, 2006-2007
• Masses (vocal scores): M2013
• Sacred choruses, cantatas, etc. (vocal scores): M2023, 2027-2028

Incidental music (piano reductions): M1517-1518
Ballets (piano scores): M1523, 1526
Piano (general works): ML650 (Lied Main Stacks)
History of the piano: ML651-661 (Lied Main Stacks)
Study (general works): MT220
Physiology of the hand: MT221
Methods: MT222
Beginning instruction: MT224
Studies and exercises:

• General: MT225
• Left hand: MT226
• Pedaling: MT227
• Touch: MT228
• Wrist: MT229
• Intervals: MT230
• Scales, arpeggios, etc.: MT231
• Fingering: MT232
• Rhythm: MT233
• Phrasing: MT235
• Other: MT236-252

Note: The headings below do not include the numerous chamber combinations of piano with other instruments. For more comprehensive results, perform a keyword search including the term piano or pianos along with other instruments sought.

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Online). London: Macmillan Reference; New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001-
Internet Access

Maurice Hinson Sources

Hinson, Maurice. Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, c2000.
Music Ref. ML128.P3 H5 2000

____________. Music for More Than One Piano : an Annotated Guide. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1983.
Music Ref. ML128.P3 H52 1983
EBook Access

____________. Music for Piano and Orchestra : an Annotated Guide. Enl. ed. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Music Ref. ML128.P3 H53 1993

____________. The Pianist's Guide to Transcriptions, Arrangements, and Paraphrases. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, c1990.
Music Ref. ML128.P3 H536 1990

____________. The Pianist's Reference Guide : a Bibliographical Survey. Los Angeles: Alfred Pub. Co., c1987.
Music Ref. ML128.P3 H54 1987

Other Piano-related Sources

Dees, Pamela Youngdahl. A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002-.
Lied Book Stacks ML102.P5 D44 2002

McGraw, Cameron. Piano Duet Repertoire : Music Originally Written for One Piano, Four Hands. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, c1981.
Music Ref. ML128.P3 M2

Palmieri, Robert. Piano: an Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Music Ref. ML102.P5 E53 2003

Patterson, Donald L. One Handed : a Guide to Piano Music for One Hand. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Music Ref. ML128.P3 P38 1999

Wolcott, Michiko Ishiyama. Piano, the Instrument: an Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001.
Lied Book Stacks ML128.P3 W65 2001

Wright, H. Stephen. Film Music at the Piano: an Index to Piano Arrangments of Instrumental Film and Television Music in Anthologies and Collections. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2003.
Lied Book Stacks ML128.M7 W75 2003

Ensemble Repertoire

Cobbett, Walter Willson. Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music. Oxford [England]; New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, c1963.
Music Ref. ML1100 .C7 1988

Cohn, Arthur. The Literature of Chamber Music. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Hinshaw, c1997.
Music Ref. ML1100 .C78 1997

Hinson, Maurice. The Piano in Chamber Ensemble : An Annotated Guide. 2nd ed. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, c2006.
Music Ref. ML128.C4 H5 2006

Part IV: Periodicals

Clavier
Lied Periodicals ML1 .C79

Contemporary Keyboard
Lied Periodicals ML1 .C9153

Keyboard
Lied Periodicals ML1 .C9153

Piano & Keyboard
Lied Periodicals ML1 .P66

The Piano Quarterly
Lied Periodicals ML1 .P66