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The Art of Communication:
Nurturing Resourceful and Spirited Students

by Gail Berenson
Piano Pedagogy Forum, Vol. 1, No. 3, September 1998

This unique online journal was created in January 1998 as a pedagogical resource for teachers and students.

Ask the Professor

Janet Vogt, music and lyrics; Professor's comments by: Janet Vogt, Gail Berenson and Judith Strickland Minter. Heritage Press/Lorenz Publications.

Supplemental books to accompany Piano Discoveries Piano Method Books. This 2004 addition to the Piano Discoveries series contains outstanding performance repertoire that students will love. Alongside the compositions are answers to the typical questions that a young student might ask. The topics range from how to handle technical issues to dealing with the emotions of performance anxiety.

Available at Lorenz.com.

Midnight Express

by Christopher Fisher

This toccata-like solo is marked presto and literally seems to speed through the night. In C minor and 4/4 meter, it features a rhythmic ostinato in the left-hand accompaniment and melodic ostinato in the right-hand melody. In A-B-A form, harmonic fourths used in the B section imitate the mournful sound of the train whistle. The entire piece begins quietly, builds to forte, then fades quietly at the end.

Available at www.alfred.com

Music Medicine and Today's Piano Teacher

A chapter by Gail Berenson in
Creative Piano Teaching (third edition)
by James Lyke, Yvonne Enoch, Geoffrey Haydon,
Stipes Publications

Available at www.Amazon.com

Piano Discoveries Piano Method Books

by Janet Vogt and Leon Bates.
Gail Berenson was a contributor as a member of
Heritage Press/Lorenz Publications Advisory Board

The sixteen-book series, Piano Discoveries, was launched in 2001. It is a leading-edge piano method filled with delightful and sensitive repertoire and special features created and written to equip and encourage students to move forward successfully and musically with each new lesson.

Available at Lorenz.com.

Piano Safari Piano Method

by Julie Knerr and Katherine Fisher

Available at pianosafari.com

A Symposium
for Pianists and Teachers:
Strategies to Develop the
Mind and Body for
Optimal Performance

by Gail Berenson et al

A Symposium for Pianists and Teachers is a unique volume built on the selected areas of interest and expertise of ten different authors. More a compendium of thoughts dealing with the playing of the piano most easily, efficiently and without physical injury, than a 'this is the only way' approach. Concise and accessible, readers can glean something concrete and usable, some practical, 'down-to-earth' advice, from each chapter.

Available at amazon.com

Teaching Piano in Groups:
A Comprehensive Group Piano Pedagogy Textbook

by Christopher Fisher

Teaching Piano in Groups provides a one-stop compendium of information related to all aspects of group piano teaching. Motivated by an ever-growing interest in this instructional method and its widespread mandatory inclusion in piano pedagogy curricula, Christopher Fisher highlights the proven viability and success of group piano teaching, and arms front-line group piano instructors with the necessary tools for practical implementation of a system of instruction in their own teaching. 

Available from Oxford University Press