Music Library | Piano Lessons London

📖 "Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend." Beethoven

Library for pupils


📖 “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” Roald Dahl


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Over ten years ago, I started acquiring books which would be of interest for pupils - children as well as adults - in order to create a lending library. Now there are general introductory books for people who know very little about music as well as various more specific categories of books about theory, instruments, composers, musical eras, history, philosophy, aesthetics and many other things. My collection of academic and other books on music etc is also available for pupils.


Borrowing books is free and fines do not exist but there is a library book in which pupils and teacher sign when books are taken out and returned.


The financial organisation of the studio does not allow offering pupils free access to subscription services such as Naxos, Oxford Music etc but pupils are encouraged to explore these options individually.


Since the inception of the project a remarkably insignificant quantity of books has been withheld by pupils who refused to return items to the library and so the project continues in the hope that these occurrences remain in the minority.


Library Catalogue


A certain proportion of the music-related books is catalogued on LibraryThing.




Selection of Latest Additions


📚 PreTime Piano: Popular: Primer Level (PreTime Piano Series)

📚 PreTime Piano Jazz & Blues.: Primer Level (PreTime Piano Series)

📚 Chee-Hwa Tan Piano Safari: A Child's Garden of Verses

📚 Beatrice Quoniam Pianissimo - The Pianist's Repertory for Beginners (Le répertoire du pianiste pour les premières années

📚 Khoury, Marielle Purcell: First Discovery Music (First Discovery in Music (ABRSM))

📚 Clary, Mildred Handel: First Discovery Music (First Discovery in Music (ABRSM))

📚 de Bouchet, Paul Schubert: First Discovery Music (First Discovery in Music (ABRSM))

📚 de Bouchet, Paul Bach: First Discovery Music (First Discovery in Music (ABRSM))

📚 Beaumont, Oliver Vivaldi: First Discovery Music (First Discovery in Music (ABRSM))

📚 Henley, Darren Famous Composers (Naxos)

📚 Henley, Darren More Famous Composers (Naxos)

📚 Ameriks, Karl The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism

📚 The Impressionists Handbook. The great works and the world that inspired them

📚 Immanuel Kant Die drei Kritiken - Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Kritik der praktischen Vernunft. Kritik der Urteilskraft

📚 Maureen Cox Harmony is fun in a nutshell (2015)

📚 Emile Jaques Dalcroze The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze

📚 Henry Giroux On Critical Pedagogy

📚 Johann Gottlieb Fichte Die Wissenschaftslehre: Zweiter Vortrag im Jahre 1804 vom 16. April - 8. Juni

📚 David Crombie Piano

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The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano by Elizabeth Busch and Marjorie Priceman

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DK Art A Children's Encyclopedia

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Oliver Condy Symphonies for the Soul - Classical Music to Cure any Ailment

📚 Anton Rubinstein Album for Piano

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Rubinstein, Anton Music and Its Masters (Classic Reprint)

📚 At the Piano With Women Composers (edited by Maurice Hinson)

📚 Catherine Weill Chopin (First Discovery: Music) (First Discovery in Music (ABRSM))

📚 Walcker, Yann Beethoven: First Discovery Music (First Discovery in Music (ABRSM))

📚 Yann Walcker Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (First Discovery: Music) (First Discovery in Music (ABRSM))

📚 O'Brien, Eileen Usborne Introduction to Music (Internet-linked)

📚 Roger Scruton Music As an Art


Latest update in February 2023


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