New books on the way!
I recently reviewed a book for Oxford University Press and was pleased to discover that I could request payment in the form of either a small stipend or a bunch of free books. I chose the books (natch), and spent a very pleasurable hour the other day browsing the Oxford University Press website.
Here's what I picked out:
Child Composers in the Old Conservatories: How Orphans Became Elite Musicians
The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography
Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn
The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance
The Positive Pianist: How Flow Can Bring Passion to Practice and Performance
Transformational Piano Teaching: Mentoring Students from All Walks of Life
Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas: A Handbook for Performers
After Debussy: Music, Language and the Margins of Philosophy
Managing Stage Fright: A Guide for Musicians and Music Teachers
After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance
Adaptive Strategies for Small-Handed Pianists
And these last three, at the request of a certain theologian in the family:
The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology
The Soul of Doubt: The Religious Roots of Unbelief from Luther to Marx
