Brent Hugh's Piano Home Page

Piano Sites

This is a list of various piano-related pages that I maintain.

My www pages and email newsletter on piano practicing:
- A page on Useful Techniques and Methods of Piano Practice. Learn your music more securely and play more musically. Get more done in less time!
- Pep up your practice by getting an interesting and useful practice tip in your emailbox once every week. Click here to find out more about PIANO PRACTICE TIPS, my bi-weekly email newsletter.
- Practice Tips Archives--a wealth of ideas for piano practicing.
Notes from a masterclass with world-renowned pianist Claude Frank.
Notes from the 1998 World Piano Pedagogy Convention in Fort Worth, Texas:
- Jerome Lowenthal, Learning As Forgetting
- A Masterclass with renowned pianist Russell Sherman
A List of Piano-related Professional Organizations and Publications
A short history of the tune used in "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
EarTestonline, an online eartraining program.
Brent Hugh's Music Instruction Software Page--online, downloadable programs for your computer.
The homepage of the BrailleM email list, which discusses everything of interest to Braille music users and teachers. (You can also read the BrailleM list archives and the Braille Music FAQ.)
Practical, Simple, Useful Ways for Music Teachers to Use the Internet. You're a music teacher and you want to know why the internet is such a big deal. What can you really do on the internet? Click on this page to find out . . . (Includes a handy list of the best and most useful web sites for music teachers.)

Music as a Social and Functional Art: A Simple and Practical Way to Integrate Music into the Elementary and Pre-School Classroom (the basic idea can also be adapted for use at home, church, or day-care)
Music IQ Songs--songs I wrote for my own child to put into practice the ideas I found in my research (sheet music and recordings are available for free download on this page)
Teaching Young People to Be Musical has much more information, details, and helpful strategies for teachers and parents.
The abstract of my doctoral research project, "Can Musicians Alter the Music Preferences of Audiences? The Effect of Pre-Performance Informational Presentations on Music Preference"
The entire text of my doctoral research project, "Can Musicians Alter the Music Preferences of Their Audience? The Effect of Pre-Performance Informational Presentations on Music Preference", in PDF format.