The Piano

  • The Piano: Its Story, from Zither to Grand
    By David S. Grover

    The Piano: Its Story, from Zither to Grand

  • The Piano: A History in 100 Pieces
    The Piano: A History in 100 Pieces
    By Susan Tomes

    LUDWIG. VAN. BEETHOVEN. (1770–1827). 14. Sonata for Piano and Violin in F major, op. 24, 'Spring' By the turn of the nineteenth century, the piano had developed greater power and expressive range. There were many competing virtuosi who ...

  • The Piano
    The Piano
    By William Miller

    Set in the early 1900s South, a young African-American girl gets a great opportunity when her employer transforms her into a student of music by introducing her to the art of playing the piano.

  • The Piano: An Illustrated Step-by-step Instructional Guide
    The Piano: An Illustrated Step-by-step Instructional Guide
    By Frank Cappelli

    Illustrated with charts and diagrams throughout, this guide teaches the fundamentals of piano--from buying a piano and understanding its mechanisms to reading music and playing chords.

  • The Piano: A Novel
    The Piano: A Novel
    By Kate Pullinger, Jane Campion

    Delving deeply into the characters' pasts, this novel reveals why Ada has stopped speaking, the history of the piano and the secret of Flora's conception.

  • The Piano: An Encyclopedia
    The Piano: An Encyclopedia
    By Robert Palmieri

    In Dictionnaire des facteurs d'instruments de musique en Wallonie et à Bruxelles du 9e siècle à nos jours, edited by Malou Haine and Nicolas Meeùs. Liège and Brussels: Pierre Mardaga, 1986. Libin, Laurence. American Musical Instruments ...

  • The Piano
    By Jane Campion

    A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer there. After the marriage she meets another man, and...

  • The Piano
    The Piano
    By Rosemary Border

    In the middle of the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him, and the music moves his fingers.

  • The Piano: By Jane Campion and Kate Pullinger
    The Piano: By Jane Campion and Kate Pullinger
    By Jane Campion

    The Piano: By Jane Campion and Kate Pullinger

  • The Piano
    By Gail Jones

    The Piano written and directed by Jane Campion, is one of the most honoured films of the new Australian cinema, and is considered, by many critics, a modern masterpiece.

  • The Piano: A Novel
    The Piano: A Novel
    By Kate Pullinger, Jane Campion

    This is the screenplay of the film starring Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel. Ada, together with her nine-year-old illegitimate daughter Flora, and her piano, leave Scotland to arrive in the...

  • The Piano
    The Piano
    By Jeremy Siepmann

    This is the first popular book to cover every aspect of the instrument's dynamic history, including: origins, technical developments, novelties and experiments; piano music throughout the centuries; profiles of the instruments' musical ...