| The Art of French piano music: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Chabrier Yale University Press, published in May 2009 (click here for the book's US listing) This page will soon feature sound tracks associated to the book. 3 can already be found on the book's Yale UK web page. Debussy in proportion, a musical analysis. Cambridge University Press, 1983 (paperback 1986). For more about this book, see the Debussy page. "Roy Howat's book represents the most important advance in unravelling the mysteries of Debussy's music that there has ever been." Robert Orledge, Music & Letters View on amazon.com or amazon.co.uk |
| BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS |
| Edited or translated by Roy Howat: Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Chopin, pianist and teacher; edited and co-translated by Roy Howat. Cambridge UP, 1986 (paperback 1988) "…indispensable to the serious student of Chopin" Notes (Journal of the Music Library Association) View on amazon.com or amazon.co.uk |
| Book chapters by Roy Howat (In English) "Modernisation: from Chabrier and Fauré and Chabrier to Debussy and Ravel", in French music since Berlioz, ed. Caroline Potter and Richard Langham Smith. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp. 197–221 "Performance as research and vice versa", in Music research: new directions for a new century, ed. Michael Ewans, Rosalind Halton and John A. Phillips. ISBN 1-904303-35-8. Amersham: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2004, pp. 1–14 "Reading between the lines of tempo and rhythm in the B-flat Sonata, D. 960", in Schubert the Progressive, ed. Brian Newbould. Aldesrhot: Ashgate, 2003, pp. 117–137 "Keyboard", in ABRSM Performer's Guide to Romantic Music, ed. Anthony Burton. London: Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, 2002, pp. 29–42 "Ravel and the piano", in The Cambridge Companion to Ravel, ed. Deborah Mawer. Cambridge UP, 2000, pp. 71–96 & 271–3 "Architecture as drama in late Schubert", in Schubert Studies, ed. Brian Newbould. London: Scolar Press (now Ashgate), 1998, pp. 168–92. On amazon.com or amazon.uk "Debussy's piano music: sources and performance", in Debussy Studies, ed. Richard Langham Smith. Cambridge UP, 1996, pp. 78–107. View on amazon.com or amazon.uk "What do we perform?", in The Practice of Performance: Studies in Musical Interpretation, ed. John Rink. Cambridge UP, 1995, pp. 3–20. View on amazon.com or amazon.uk "Debussy and the Orient", in Recovering the Orient, ed. Andrew Gerstle & Anthony Milner. Chur: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994, pp. 45–81 "Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion", in The Bartók Companion, ed. Malcolm Gillies. London: Faber, 1993, pp. 315–30. View on amazon.com or amazon.uk "Chopin's influence on the fin-de-siècle and beyond", in The Cambridge Companion to Chopin, ed. Jim Samson. Cambridge UP, 1992, pp. 246–79 & 325–7. On amazon.com or amazon.uk |