LibGuides: Cello Resources: Books

How Do I Find Books About the Cello?

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Below are general call number ranges for information about the cello. You can browse the shelves or you can consult MaagNET for a listing of materials by call number. To search by call number in MaagNET, select LC Call Number and enter the beginning of a call number, ex. ML960.

Suggested Call Numbers for Books about the Violoncello
ML910 - ML915	history of cello music (ML910, ML911, ML912, ML913, ML914, ML915)
MT300 - MT318	studies and methods for cello (MT300, MT301, MT302, MT303, MT304, MT305, MT306, MT307, MT308, MT309, MT310, MT311, MT312, MT313, MT314, MT315, MT316, MT317, MT318)
MT306	orchestral excerpts (MT306)
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Books About the Cello

The Cambridge Companion to the Cello by Robin Stowell
Call Number: ML910 .C36 1999
Publication Date: 1999
Compact, composite and authoritative survey of the history and development of the cello and its repertory since the origins of the instrument. Comprises thirteen essays, written by a team of nine distinguished scholars and performers, and is intended to develop the cello's historical perspective in breadth and from every relevant angle, offering as comprehensive a coverage as possible.
A Cellist's Guide to the New Approach by Claude Kenneson (foreword by Kato Havas)
Call Number: MT300 .K45
Publication Date: 1974
A Comparative Study of Left Hand Technique in Cello Performance and Pedagogy through Discussions with Artist-Teachers Gordon Epperson, Robert Hladky, Fritz Magg, Gabor Rejto, and Janos Starker by Joyce Ann Nordvik Geeting
Call Number: MT310 .G43 1979a
Publication Date: 1979
The Countess of Stalein Restored by Nicholas Delbanco
Call Number: ML911 .D45 2001x
Publication Date: 2001
The craft of instrument repair remains rooted in tradition; its practitioners belong to a quasi-mediaeval guild. Morel began a complete restoration of the instrument, a painstaking and meticulous enterprise that took him nearly two years. This book tracks that process -- the intricacies, anxieties and pleasures that precede the cello's triumphal unveiling at the World Cello Congress in June 2000.
One Hundred Years of Violoncello: A History of Technique and Performance Practice, 1740-1840 by Valerie Walden; John Butt (Contribution by); Laurence Dreyfus (Contribution by)
Call Number: ML915 .W25 1998
Publication Date: 1998
This is the first book to address the full range of performance issues for the cello from the Baroque to the early Romantic period.