Contents of reader:


“The piano since c.1825” from The Cambridge Companion to the Piano, ed. David Rowland. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 40-56. 1
“Actions” from Encyclopedia of the Piano, ed. Robert Palmieri. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1996, pp. 12-20. 10
“Ballad” “Barcarolle” “Berceuse” “Character piece” “Etude” “Études d’exécution transcendante” “Études symphoniques” “Impromptu” “Intermezzo” “Lieder ohne Worte” “Mazurka” “Nocturne” “Polonaise” “Prelude” “Rhapsody” “Variation” “Waltz” from Randel, Don Michael. The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Cambridge MA: Belknap of Harvard University Press, 1999. 19
“Fragments” from Rosen, Charles. The Romantic Generation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, pp. 41-115. 24
“Glimpses of Chopin Composing, playing the piano” from Weiss, Piero and Richard Taruskin. Music in the Western World: A History in Documents. New York: Schirmer Books, 1984, No. 106, pp. 369-371. 62
Plantinga, Leon, “The Piano and the Nineteenth Century” from Todd, R. Larry, ed. Nineteenth-Century Piano Music. New York: Schirmer, 1990, pp.1-15. 64
“1820s to 1870s: The Piano Calls the Tune” from Parakilas, James. Piano roles: A New History of the Piano. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 150-176. 72
“Beethoven” “The Early Nineteenth Century” “Schubert” “Mendelssohn” “Schumann” “Chopin” from Kirby, F. E. Music for Piano: A Short History. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1995. 86
“Clara Wieck: Soirées for Piano, Opus 6” from Schumann, Robert. Schumann on Music: A Selection from the Writings, trans. and ed. Henry Pleasants. New York: Dover pub., 1988, pp. 122-3. 115
“The ‘Music of the Future’ Controversy” from Weiss, Piero and Richard Taruskin. Music in the Western World: A History in Documents. New York: Schirmer Books, 1984, No. 110, pp. 380-385. 116
“The Concert and the Virtuoso” from Parakilas, James. Piano roles: A New History of the Piano. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 184-199. 119
Kallberg, Jeffrey, “Hearing Poland: Chopin and Nationalism” from Todd, R. Larry, ed. Nineteenth-Century Piano Music. New York: Schirmer, 1990, pp. 221-57 127
“Reactions to Chopin’s Op. 28” from Chopin, Frederick, Preludes, Op. 28, ed. Thomas Higgins. New York: W.W. Norton, 1973, pp. 91-99. 144
“Frédéric Chopin: Études, Opus 25” “Chopin: Two Nocturnes, Opus 37; Ballade, Opus 38: Waltz, Opus 42” from Schumann, Robert. Schumann on Music: A Selection from the Writings, trans. and ed. Henry Pleasants. New York: Dover pub., 1988, pp. 125-6, pp. 157-161. 149
“Franz Liszt: Concerts in Dresden and Leipzig” from Schumann, Robert. Schumann on Music: A Selection from the Writings, trans. and ed. Henry Pleasants. New York: Dover pub., 1988, pp. 157-161. 152
“Liszt, the All-Conquering Pianist” and “From the Writings of Liszt” from Weiss, Piero and Richard Taruskin. Music in the Western World: A History in Documents. New York: Schirmer Books, 1984, Nos. 104 and 105, pp. 363-369. 155
“Liszt and Brahms and Their Age” “Liszt” from Kirby, F. E. Music for Piano: A Short History. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1995, pp. 205-221. 159
Leppert, Richard, “Cultural Contradiction, idolatry, and the Piano Virtuoso: Franz Liszt” from Parakilas, James. Piano roles: A New History of the Piano. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 200-223. 166
“New Paths” from Schumann, Robert. Schumann on Music: A Selection from the Writings, trans. and ed. Henry Pleasants. New York: Dover pub., 1988, pp. 125-6, pp. 199-200. 178
“Brahms on Composing” and “The ‘Brahmin’ Point of View” from Weiss, Piero and Richard Taruskin. Music in the Western World: A History in Documents. New York: Schirmer Books, 1984, Nos. 116 and 117, pp. 401-405. 180
“Brahms” from Kirby, F. E. Music for Piano: A Short History. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1995, pp. 227-243. 183


Contents of score package
• Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Variations on “Ah vous dirai-je maman”
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Für Elisa
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Diabelli variations
• Franz Schubert: Erlkönig
• Franz Schubert: Impromptus Op. 90 No. 2 and Op. 142 No. 3
• Felix Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19 Nos. 3 and 6, Op. 30 No. 6, Op. 38 No. 6, Op. 53 No. 4, Op. 62 Nos. 3 and 5, Op. 67 No. 4
• Clara Schumann: Soirées Musicales op. 6
• Robert Schumann: from Album for the Young “Jägerliedchen”, “Wilder Reiter”, “Volksliedchen”, “Nordisches Lied”, “Sizilianisch”
• Robert Schumann: excerpts Kinderszenen op. 15 (Nos. 1, 7, and 13)
• Robert Schumann: excerpts from Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6
• AA-C: Notes for Carnaval by Robert Schumann
• Robert Schumann: excerpts from Carnaval op. 9 (Nos. 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17)
• Robert Schumann: excerpts Phantasiestücke op. 12 (Aufschwung and Warum?)
• Modest Musorgsky: Kartiny s vystavki (Pictures at an Exhibition)
• Frydryck Chopin: Berceuse op. 57
• Frydryck Chopin: Waltzes Nos. 5, 6, and 7
• Frydryck Chopin: Études Op. 10 Nos. 1, 3, 5, 12 and Op. 25 Nos. 1, 7
• Frydryck Chopin: Preludes Op. 28, Nos. 2, 4, 12, 24
• Frydryck Chopin: Mazurkas Op. 6 No. 1, Op. 7 Nos. 2 and 5, Op. 17 Nos. 3 and 4, Op. 30 No. 2, Op. 59 Nos. 1, 2, and 3, Op. 63 No. 2
• Frydryck Chopin: Nocturnes Op. 15 No. 3, Op. 27 No. 2, Op. 48 No. 1
• Franz Liszt: selected pieces from Années de pèlerinage: Première Année: La Suisse, Nos. 5 (Orage) and 9 (Les cloches de Genève), Deuxième année: L’Italie, Nos. 1 (Sposalizio), 3 (Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa) and 4 (Sonetto 47 del Petrarca), Troisième année: L’Italie, No. 4 (Jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este)
• Johannes Brahms: Rhapsody op. 79 No. 2
• Johannes Brahms: Intermezzi op. 117 Nos. 1 and 3