Build your holiday wish list with our inspiring collection of piano teaching resources! From expert repertoire guides and diverse repertoire collections to practical teaching tools and personal essays by leading educators, our publications make the perfect gift to enrich your studio and spark creativity all year long. Read below for a special code to use for 20% off these resources!
Inspired Piano Teaching by Marvin Blickenstaff
Inspired Piano Teaching is filled with practical advice on teaching students at all levels. It is dedicated to keeping inspiration and artistry alive for every student in every lesson. After reading the book, teachers will feel like they have attended a multi-day workshop with Marvin. Topics range from proactive teaching, the interview, and the first lesson to technical gestures, guidelines to interpretation, and coaching a piece to performance. This is a book to be experienced, to be consumed, to be internalized—so that teachers can, in turn, pass musical and artistic concepts to students.
Piano Literature for Teaching and Performance by Jane Magrath
The most comprehensive, up-to-date guide for evaluating and selecting graded piano solo literature from Baroque to Contemporary periods. This publication includes significant listings from underrepresented and women composers in addition to an enlarged contemporary collection. Each composer is given a short biography, along with musical characteristics, pedagogical considerations, and a suggested grade level for each piece.
Recollections: A Pianist’s Essays on Teaching, Performing, and Living by Robert Weirich
Recollections: A Pianist’s Essays on Teaching, Performing, and Living gathers dozens of articles Robert Weirich wrote for various music journals, including Clavier, over the last four decades. The essays are linked by new writing that is both memoir and an exploration of the place of the arts in American society. There is much here to consider about how a musician makes a life and comes to terms with both success and failure. Ultimately it is about perseverance during a time of great change and the desire for relevance. This book will appeal to the general reader who is curious about the arts. It will be of special interest to musicians young and old. The writing will certainly engage teachers, not only of the piano but anyone of a self-reflective bent. While the subject matter is music-centric, advanced knowledge of music is not required. The writing style is straightforward and personal.
Special Holiday Offer: 20% off these three essential teaching guides using code HOLIDAY. Offer does not apply to other publications.
MORE FROM THE FRANCES CLARK CENTER
- BOOK: Piano Literature for Teaching and Performance by Jane Magrath
- BOOK: Recollections: A Pianist’s Essays on Teaching, Performing, and Living by Robert Weirich
- BOOK: Inspired Piano Teaching by Marvin Blickenstaff
- REPERTOIRE: Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? by Thomas H. Kerr Jr., edited by Susanna Garcia and William Chapman Nyaho
- REPERTOIRE: Dancétudes by Thomas H. Kerr Jr., edited by Susanna Garcia and William Chapman Nyaho
- REPERTOIRE: Easter Monday Swagger by Thomas H. Kerr Jr., edited by Susanna Garcia and William Chapman Nyaho
- REPERTOIRE: Weaving Sounds: Elementary Piano Pieces by Native and Indigenous Composers Compiled and Edited by Connor Chee and Renata Yazzie
- STUDENT PUBLICATION: Technique through Repertoire, Book 1 Selected and Edited by Christopher Madden and Jani Parsons
- STUDENT PUBLICATION: Technique through Repertoire, Book 2 Selected and Edited by Christopher Madden and Jani Parsons
- STUDENT PUBLICATION: From Rote to Note, Book 1 by E.L. Lancaster and Kevin Olson
- STUDENT PUBLICATION: From Rote to Note, Book 2 by E.L. Lancaster and Omar Roy
- BOOK: A Piano Teacher’s Legacy: Selected Writings by Richard Chronister edited by Edward Darling
- BOOK: Questions and Answers: Practical Advice for Piano Teachers by Frances Clark
- BOOK: The Success Factor in Piano Teaching: Making Practice Perfect by Elvina Pearce
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