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This New Book traces keyboard playing from its beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century discusses all the instruments - organ, harpsichord, clavichord, piano quotes from letters, diaries, reviews, and method books contains full chapters on Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt includes major sections on great performers and composers from Frescobaldi and Couperin to Debussy and Rachmaninoff belongs in the library of every keyboard performer and teacher Available from Hinshaw Music, Inc. Download Table of Contents	This book is a model for an investigative approach to keyboard playing… Harald Vogel …a boon for all up-to-date keyboard players. Christopher Hogwood
	A New Edition of These Popular Teaching Pieces for Organ The edition includes an extensive Preface on eighteenth-century performance practices. Commentaries on each movement provide an excellent guide for students and teachers. Dr. Soderlund's handsomely produced volume presents the text with a well-pitched introduction, specific remarks, fingerings and partial phrasings, and as such does its job for the young organist very well.…the edition deserves to be consulted by teachers, students and specialists alike. The Organ Yearbook Available from Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. 8510 Triad Drive, Colfax, NC 27235 336-996-8445
A New Edition The Two-Part Inventions plus the Four Duets from Clavierübung III Extensive Preface with historical background on Bach's keyboard instruments, playing, and teaching Suitable for use on all keyboard instruments, including modern piano and organ  The light touch of Sandra Soderlund's writing…belies some careful thought and circumspect experience. The music and its sources, the instruments, fingering, tempo, ornaments and articulation are summarized, and each piece is discussed in turn, with generous illustration and useful lines of approach for the learner. The Organ Yearbook Available from Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. 8510 Triad Drive, Colfax, NC 27235 336-996-8445
	An Excellent Introduction to French Classic Music Extensive Preface on the French Classic style, including material on the organs, the performance technique, the ornamentation, and the dance rhythms Commentaries on each movement with realizations of all ornaments Every movement fingered  Clérambault's suites in the first and second tone were a good choice, being charming music that raises all the necessary questions, useful, therefore, for a whole range of music of the French school. The Organ Yearbook Available from Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. 8510 Triad Drive, Colfax, NC 27235 336-996-8445
It is not only a good basic introduction to the instrument for composers, but also for beginning organ students, and even for church conunittees involved in purchasing an instrument. Delbert Disselhorst A model of clarity and precision. Soderlund draws on her skills both at scholarship and performance to communicate the essentials. Daniel Pinkham The guide is the next best thing to having a fine organist in the room with you while you work. It is a wonderful resource. Libby Larsen This is a most welcome tract that packs a surprising amount of information in a compact space. The next stage for a composer would be to go to scores and instruments. The index, itself, is a great idea. William Albright Sandra Soderlund's guide is the most concise, easily understandable description of the organ and its possibilities that I have encountered in my experience as a performer, composer and teacher. Pamela Decker	A Guide to the Pipe Organ for Composers and Others Available from Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. 8510 Triad Drive, Colfax, NC 27235 336-996-8445
	Whimsical and educational, this introduction to the King of Instruments combines text with the delightful cartoons of Catherine Fischer.   Available from The American Guild of Organists   (may be viewed on the AGO website)
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