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* A Practical Guide to Solo Piano Music, by Trevor Barnard and Elizabeth Gutierrez with foreword by Bruce Berr. Meredith Music Publications/G. W. Music, Inc. (4899 Lerch Creek Ct., Galesville, MD 20765), 2006. 157 pp. $19.95.
A Practical Guide to Solo Piano Music by Trevor Barnard and Elizabeth Gutierrez is the first in a series of piano reference books published by Meredith Music. This handy guide makes an excellent choice as a quick reference tool for the independent teacher and would also be ideal for the college teacher or performance major. This concise book is clearly laid out and is arranged alphabetically with an overview of the composer's output and the added bonus of publisher references and contact. Each piece of repertoire is assigned a level, starting with intermediate works (level 1), lower and upper level repertoire for college music majors (levels 2 and 3) and virtuosic works such as Islamey (levd 4). The supplemental index of composers listed chronologically and according to country of origin is an especially attractive feature.
A Practical Guide to Solo Piano Music is clearly the type of book teachers, students and performers would want to have at their finger tips when ...
Source: HighBeam Research, * A Practical Guide to Solo Piano Music.(Book review)