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PFMJ Piano Performance

In the Library

Use the library catalog to search for music scores, recordings, books


TUTORIAL: Finding Scores & Recordings
Digital Scores
Classical Scores Library
over 21,000 scores available through this subscription database; scores can be viewed and printed (requires IC netpass login)

IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project)
an "internet-based collaborative music score library," linking to digitized scores online

Digital scores from the Eastman School of Music
full scans from public domain scores at Eastman's Sibley Music Library
Digital Audio
Naxos Music Library
comprehensive collection of classical music available online

DRAM
nearly 2300 albums from 15 independent labes covering American art music, folk, opera, jazz, etc.

Jazz Music Library

over 120,000 jazz tracks of all jazz genres and time periods.
Dates, Bios, & Definitions
Head to Oxford Music Online for composer dates, biographical notes, and musical term definitions. All 3 databases below are searchable jointly or independently:
  • Grove music online
    the major music encyclopedia: authoritative (but long) entries; good starting point for research
Browse the stacks!
M21 
Collections of keyboard music
M22           
Collections of piano music by 1 composer
M23           
Piano sonatas
M24           
Suites 
M25-39      
Pieces (walzes, dances, marches, etc.)
M201-208    
Piano duets (piano 4 hands)
M211-215
Music for two pianos
M1010 
Piano concertos, full score
M1011
Piano concertos, solo w/piano red.
ML650   
Books about the piano 
ML700     
Books about piano and keyboard music
MT242-252  
Etudes, teaching pieces, treatises
Piano Performance DVDs
Performance Practices Series (by Maurice Hinson)
Baroque through early 20th century

Andras Schiff Masterclasses
Bach, Beethoven & Schubert