Hi,

I´m currently writing a paper on what methods are being used to teach classical piano today, and I'm looking for some good books about the subject. I thought maybe someone here would know some good ones? I'm not looking for sheet music books, but textbooks about different teaching methods. (of course I don't mind if they have some notes in them, I guess that's bound to happen)

Thanks!

What do you have so far?

For the Suzuki method, you'll need to observe or participate in their teacher training classes. The Suzuki method is not described in any great detail in a publicly available book.

For traditional methods in the US, a number of books could be helpful - Practical Piano Teaching, The Well-Tempered Keyboard Teacher, Creative Piano Teaching, and Frances Clark's "Questions and Answers" all address the various flavors of what's called "traditional" teaching in the US.

Malwine Bree's book on the Leschetizky Method gives you the fundamentals on his approach (but doesn't have much detail on early training.)

The Piano Adventures teachers guide online at pianoadventures.com could be very helpful, as would the method itself.

Also look at the teachers' guides for The Music Tree, which introduced the intervallic reading approach to the masses.

And be sure and clarify what you mean by "method." For some, it means "how you teach", for others, it means "the series of books that you use."

Thanks for the suggestions Kreisler!

Actually I live in Sweden and I can't find many Swedish books here for my paper, so I'll have to get several English ones instead, which is why I' checking here for recommendations befory buying.

My focus is on researching the process of teaching/learning a new piece, what kind of teaching methods and teqnuiques are being employed and why, because I'm curious to know how different or similair they are between teachers (I'm going to interview several piano teachers from the Royal College of Music Stockholm for instance).

Do you know of any similar studies or books? I would greatly appreciate it!