The international library of music for home and studio : study material in two books : a manual of practical instruction in pianoforte playing combining all the essentials from the beginning of grade one through grade four / with original pieces, technical exercises and explanatory text by Charles Dennée.

Author/creator Dennée, Charles author, composer.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : The University Society, 1962.
Copyright Date©1955
Description2 volumes (207 pages each) : illustrations ; 28 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorBerens, Hermann, 1826-1880, composer.
Other author/creatorGurlitt, Cornelius, 1820-1901 composer.
Other author/creatorLoeschhorn, Carl Albert, 1819-1905 composer.
Other author/creatorOesten, Theodore composer.
Other author/creatorKöhler, Louis, 1820-1886, composer.
Other author/creatorWohlfahrt, Franz, composer.
Other author/creatorKullak, Theodor, 1818-1882, composer.
Other author/creatorBach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 composer.
Other author/creatorLemoine, Henry, 1786-1854, composer.
Other author/creatorSchmitt, Aloys, 1788-1866, composer.
Other author/creatorDuvernoy, J. B. (Jean Baptiste), -1880, composer.
Other author/creatorWilson, Mortimer, 1876-1932, composer.
Other author/creatorHasert, Rudolf, 1826-1877, composer.
Other author/creatorConcone, Giuseppe, 1801-1861, composer.
Other author/creatorLe Couppey, Félix, 1811-1887, composer.
Included WorkBeyer, Ferdinand, 1803-1863. Piano music. Selections.
Included WorkHummel, Johann Nepomuk, 1778-1837. Piano music. Selections.
Included WorkCzerny, Carl, 1791-1857. Piano music. Selections.
Included WorkBartók, Béla, 1881-1945. Piano music. Selections.
Included WorkMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Piano music. Selections.
Included WorkClementi, Muzio, 1752-1832. Piano music. Selections.
Included WorkBertini, Henri, 1798-1876. Piano music. Selections.
Included WorkCramer, J. B. (Johann Baptist), 1771-1858. Piano music. Selections.
Included WorkHeller, Stephen, 1813-1888. Piano music. Selections.
Included WorkFoster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864. Old Black Joe; arranged.
Contents Vol. 1. Grades one and two. Grade I A. Elements of music -- Rhythm -- The keyboard of a modern pianoforte -- Position at the pianoforte -- Robert Schumann's rules for young musicians -- Exercises for finger development and control -- Little studies built on slow trills -- Studies in contrary and parallel motion -- Five fingers take a stroll, left hand follows right -- Two melodious pieces (four hands) / Diebelli -- Up and down the piazza steps -- A good resolve / Dennée -- Study in intervals -- Study in contrary motion -- Left hand imitates the right / Dennée -- My first waltz / Dennée -- Three four-hand pieces / Beyer -- Homeward bound, Slow waltz, Primary school waltz -- Little studies for independence between the hands -- Little recreations in note values / Dennée -- The left hand explores the upper region -- The left hand gains courage -- Pussy cat at play, Answering voices, Two little canons -- Theme and variations / Hummel -- Morning recreation -- The daily round -- Song of the toiler -- Plaintive mood ; A little song ; Country boy's song ; A merry roundelay / Dennée -- Graceful dance / Fredric -- Fairy march / Fredric -- Three little duets (four hands) / Beyer -- A flute solo -- A bassoon solo -- Theme and variations / Muller -- Maypole dance -- Oral accent or impulse training -- Little Jack Horner -- London bridge -- The little oboe and the big trombone -- Taps -- The little lost dog -- Old black Joe / Foster -- Changing the key, modulation -- Elementary key analysis -- Simple broken thirds -- A twister -- Up the ladder and down the ladder / Dennée -- Answering echoes -- Tagging -- In graceful curves / Beyer -- Dolly's first waltz / Frederic -- The whistling farmer boy / Beyer -- Repeating a key with the same finger -- First attempt at speed -- The rain is falling (four hands) / Beyer -- Diatonic finger passages and simple broked triads -- Varied note values and intervals -- A little song / Frederic -- Study in elementary expansion / Loeschhorn -- Morning salute -- Happy song -- The hands go traveling / Dennée -- An evening barcarolle -- The hands make a tour in A major -- Dancing in a foreign land -- Homeward bound -- Hippety-hop, op. 70 / Berens -- Little puzzle -- A basket full / Loeschhorn -- Jig (four hands) (French folk song) -- The first antiponal -- The second antiphonal -- Staccato -- Beginning on a count other than "one" -- The Campbells are coming (Scotch air) -- Twelve easy pieces, without key signatures / Wohlfahrt -- Wooden shoe dance --
Contents Vol. 1. Grades one and two. Grade I B. Recollections of infant days -- A song -- Finger substitution -- Lightly tripping along, op. 70 / Berens -- At the circus -- Hand contraction -- First velocity study, op. 83, no. 1 / Gurlitt -- Exercise in double notes -- The fife and drum corps passing by / Oesten -- In a canoe -- Simple accompaniment models -- Slow dance -- Study in expansion / Loeschhorn -- Combination of held tones and staccato -- Theme and variations / Ehmant -- Second velocity, op. 83, no. 2 / Gurlitt -- Shifting keyboard position -- A rose garden / Köhler -- Dance of the clowns / Dennée -- Agile fingers / Fredric -- A little dialogue / Wohlfahrt -- Peasant's polka -- Schöne polka (Russian folk song) -- Study in little runs -- A simple story / Ascher -- Early morn / Beyer -- The cuckoo / Köhler -- A conversation, op. 82, no. 44 / Gurlitt -- Round dance / Fredric -- Study in double notes -- Morning song / Fredric -- Fundamental broken triads -- The spinning wheel -- Parade of the boy scouts / Pasconet -- Theme and variations / Kullak -- Familiar school day songs and hymn tunes -- Down in the meadow the grass is so green ; Kittens playing / Loeschhorn -- The juggler -- Exercises in moving legato double notes -- Traveling through the keys / Fredric -- The hand-organ -- Third velocity study, op. 83, no. 3 ; Fourth velocity study, op. 83, no. 4 / Gurlitt -- Two short studies in rolled chords / Dennée -- Keyboard shifting, rolled triads -- Song of the Hussars -- Mazurka ; Waltz / Czerny -- "Off side" A study in phrasing / Bela Bartok -- Two little voices / Wohlfahrt -- Study in broken thirds -- Country dance / Köhler -- Study in staccato sixths -- And He said, F major / Th. Gray -- Song, from Anna Magadalene's notebook / J. S. Bach -- Study in motion / Dennée -- The harp player -- Study, staccato broken triad figures / Wohlfahrt -- The mill, C major / Lemoine -- Song, G major / Mozart -- Simple scales -- The practice of the scale -- The easier major scales -- Skating / Fredric -- Learning to run / Wohlfahrt -- Study for independence and speed -- Children's ball -- Scale study -- The brook -- Fifth velocity study, op. 83, no. 5 ; Sixth velocity study, op. 83, no. 6 / Gurlitt -- Dolly's polka / Dennée -- Dutch dance -- Clown and pantaloon / Beyer -- Minuet, from Don Juan, F major / Mozart -- Study, scales and staccato -- Shepherd's pipe, from Sonatina op. 36 no. 3 / Clementi -- Study, op. 82, no. 34 / Gurlit -- Two easy scale studies, op. 151, no. 9 / Köhler -- Signs and abbreviations, musical terms, the pedals --
Contents Vol. 1. Grades one and two. Grade II. Technical studies. Five-finger figures in varied groupings / A. Schmitt, from op. 16 -- Figures moving around held keys -- Consecutive successions of double thirds -- Scales and cadences, in all major and minor keys -- Practical definitions for the musical terms used in this volume -- Embellishments -- Tonic and seventh chords and arpeggios in all keys -- Studies. Study, C major, op. 157, no. 3 / Köhler -- Study, C major, op. 176, no. 4 / Duvernoy -- Study, C major, op. 151, no. 1 & 2 / Köhler -- Study, C major / Bertini -- Study, D major, op. 139, no. 42 / Czerny -- Study, C major, op. 65, no. 4 / Loeschhorn -- Study, C major, op. 70, no. 34 / Berens -- Study, C major, op. 83, no. 13 & 14 / Gurlitt -- Study, C major, op. 37, no. 1 & 2 / Lemoine -- Study, G major, op. 100, no. 21 / Burgmüller -- Study, C major, op. 83, no. 19 & 20 / C. Gurlitt -- Study, F major, op. 70, no. 50 / Berens -- Study, C major, op. 777, no. 21 / Czerny -- Study, C major, op. 70, no. 44 / Berens -- Study, C major, op. 50, no. 9 & 10 / Köhler -- Etude, C major, op. 599, no. 18 ; Etude, C major, op. 139, no. 61 / Czerny -- Study, C major, op. 24, no. 24 / Concone -- Study, C major, op. 176, no. 23 & 13 / Duvernoy -- Study, C major, op. 157, no. 11 / Köhler -- Study, D major, op. 176, no. 9 / Duvernoy -- Study, G major, op. 37, no. 8 ; Study, A minor, op. 37, no. 10 / Lemoine -- Study, C major, op. 79, no. 19 & 20 / Berens -- Study, F major, op. 37, no. 20 / Lemoine -- Study, C major, op. 139, no. 19 ; Study, B-flat, op. 139, no. 45 / Czerny -- Study, C major -- Study, C major, op. 157, no. 8 / Köhler -- Study, G major, op. 83, no. 15 & 16 / C. Gurlitt -- Study, C major, op. 50, no. 3, 4 & 2 / Köhler -- Study, A minor, op. 66, no. 8 / Loeschhorn -- Study, D major, op. 139, no. 24 ; Study, D major, op. 821, no. 22 / Czerny -- Study, C major, op. 242, no. 10 / Köhler -- Study, G major, op. 68, no. 14 / Schumann -- Study, C major, op. 139, no. 53 / Czerny -- Study, C major, op. 120, no. 7 ; Study, G major ; Study, C major / Duvernoy -- Study, C major, op. 79, no. 16 & 15 / Berens -- Study, G major, op. 139, no. 25 ; Study, F major, op. 777, no. 20 ; Etude, F major, op. 599, no. 87 ; Etude, G major, op. 599, no. 59 ; Study, G major / Czerny -- Study, A major, op. 65, no. 46 / Loeschhorn -- Allegretto, op. 36 / Clementi -- Prelude, op. 100, no. 3 / Bertini -- March, C major / Czerny -- Etude joyeuse, C major / Köhler -- Etude, F major / Czerny -- On the train / Heller.
Contents Vol. 2. Grades three and four. Grade III. For the developing of finger independence, double notes, and progressive five-finger exercises / Schmitt, from op. 16 -- For perfecting the passing under of the thumb and crossing over of the fingers -- Chords and arpeggios -- Major scales in double thirds -- Minor scales in double thirds -- Studies. Study, G major, op. 120, no. 5 / Duvernoy -- Study, G major, op. 20, no. 4 / Le Couppey -- Study, C minor, op. 29, no. 7 / Bertini -- Prelude, F major ; Prelude, C minor / J. S. Bach -- Study, C major / Mortimer Wilson -- Study, G major / Lemoine -- Study, B-flat / Czerny -- Study, C major / Lemoine -- Etude, C major, op. 299, no. 3, 4, 6, 11, 17 / Czerny -- Study, A minor, op. 29, no. 18 / Bertini -- Study, B-flat, op. 20, no. 13 / Le Couppey -- Study, C minor, op. 29, no. 6 ; Study, G minor, op. 29, no. 3 / Bertini -- Study, C major, op. 61, no. 1 / Berens -- Study, C major, op. 299, no. 2 / Czerny -- Study, A minor, op. 45, no. 2 / Heller -- Study, B major, op. 821, no. 33 ; Study, E major, op. 821, no. 35 ; Study, B major, op. 821, no. 43 / Czerny -- Study, C major, op. 61, no. 5 & 9 ; Study, G major, op. 61, no. 11 / Berens -- Study, C major, op. 29, no. 22 (arr.) / Bertini -- Study, B- flat, op. 45, no. 16 / Heller -- Study, C major, op. 16, no. 8 / A. Schmitt -- Study, C major ,op. 120, no. 8 / Duvernoy -- Study, G major / Lemoine -- Study, G major, op. 37, no. 49 / Lemoine -- Study, E-flat, op. 636, no. 12 ; Study, C major, op. 299, no. 7 / Czerny -- Study, D minor, op. 45, no. 15 / Heller -- Study, C major, op. 821, no. 107 & 108 / Czerny -- Study, E minor, op. 50, no. 11 / Hasert -- Study, F major, op. 299, no. 12 ; Study, B-flat minor, op. 821, no. 76 / Czerny -- Study, C minor, op. 38, no. 23 / Loeschhorn -- Study, E-flat, op. 299, no. 25 ; Study, C major, op 299, no. 32 / Czerny -- Two-voice invention, C major, no. 1 ; Two-voice invention, F major, no. 8 / J. S. Bach -- Etude, E-flat, op. 16, no. 24 / Schmitt -- Study, C major / Bertini -- Etude, C major / Schmitt -- Study, D major ; Study, G major / Czerny -- Study, C major / Bertini -- Etude / Bela Bartok -- Study, G major / Schmitt -- Octave studies / Czerny --
Contents Vol. 2. Grades three and four. Grade IV. Technical exercises. Introductory remarks -- Exercises, by Tausig and Pischna -- Studies. Study, no. 1, C major ; Study, no. 13, A major ; Study, no. 22, F-sharp minor / Cramer -- Study, op. 740, no. 49 ; Study, A-flat / Czerny -- Study, no. 51, F minor / Cramer -- Study, E major ; Study, A minor ; Study, B-flat ; Study, E-flat / Schmitt -- Study, no. 9, G major / Cramer -- Study, C major, no. 31 / Clementi -- Study, F major, no. 68 ; Study, no. 12, A minor / Cramer -- Invention, two-voice, no. 4 (D minor), no. 14 (B-flat), no. 15 (B minor), no. 9 (F minor) / J. S. Bach -- Study, no. 18, D minor ; Study, no. 56, D major / Cramer -- Study, F-sharp minor / Schmitt -- Study, no. 65, E minor ; Study, no. 54, C major ; Study, no. 69, D minor / Cramer -- Exercise, D major ; Exercise, G major / Czerny -- Study, no. 37, B-flat major ; Study no. 32, D minor / Cramer -- Study, D minor, op. 740, no. 37 ; Study, F major, op. 740 / Czerny -- Study, C major, op. 16, no. 4 / Schmitt -- Study, no. 95, C major / Clementi -- Study, E-flat major, op. 740, no. 5 ; Study, A minor, op. 740, no. 41 ; Study, D major, op. 740, no. 21 / Czerny -- Study, no. 16, C major / Clementi -- Study, A minor, op. 40, no. 31 / Czerny -- Study, no. 17, C major / Clementi -- Invention, three-voice, no. 4, D minor ; Invention, three-voice, no. 6, E major / J.S. Bach -- Study, no. 78, G major ; Study, no. 44, F minor / Clementi.
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