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BuRGMOLLER, CzERNY & HANON

41 Piano Studies Selected for Technique and Musicality
INGRID JACOBSON CLARFIELD
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BuRGMOLLER, CzERNY & HANON

41 Piano Studies Selected for Technique and Musicality

INGRID JACOBSON CtARFIELD

1ncludes favo
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Stephen Helle
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Acknowledgments
I must first express my sincere thanks to E. L. Lancaster and Morty Manus, who gave me the
original concept for this book. As always, their support and encouragement have inspired me.
I extend my gratitude to several other people who /Jrovided me with great assistance during the
various phases of the writing of this book. With ap/Jreciation and recognition to:
Dean Elder, Chisato Oey, Laura Amoriello, Lauren Kooistra, Gary Muhlbach
and especially Kelly Setler Scheer.
As always, my appreciation goes to my patient husband, Mel Mack, and two daughters, Julie
Clarfield and Amanda Clarfield Newell, for their su/Jport while I work on books.
S/Jecial thanks to my wonderful son-in-law, E.J. Newell, who comes over whenever I need him
to handle my computer crises.
This book is dedicated to my grandson,
Ryan Edgar Newell,
who is the sunshine of my life.

Copyright© MMV by Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Foreword to Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
About This Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
About the Composers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Johann Friedrich Burgmuller .................. 6
Carl Czerny ............................... 7
• Balancing melodies and accompaniments
with triplets
• Clarity and evenness of melodies with
scales over chordal accompaniments
1. Czerny Op.823, No.19 ................. 12
Legato Triplets Below a Single-Note Melody
2. Czerny Op. 139, No.15 ................. 13
Legato Triplets Above or Below
a Single-Note Melody
3. Burgmiiller Op.100, No.12 "Farewell" ..... 14
Legato Triplets Above or Below a Single-Note
Melody and Chordal Accompaniment
4. Czerny Op.599, No.63 ................. 16
Legato T iplet Scale Melody Over
r 4, Heller Op.47, No.14
a Broken-Chord Accompaniment
5. Heller Op.138, No.9 "Curious Story" ..... 17
RH Triplet Melody Against Accom/Janiment
with Varying Touches
6. Czerny Op. 139, No.19 ................. 20
Ascending and Descending Scales ( RH and LH)
Against a Chordal Accompaniment
7. Burgmiiller Op. 100, No.6 "Progress" ...... 21
Parallel- and Contrary-Motion Scales;
Broken Interval Facility in Varied Articulation
8. Hanon No.36 ........................ 22
T humb-Under Passing Facility in Both Hands
9. Hanon No.37 ........................ 22
T humb-Under Passing Facility in Both Hands
10.Czerny Op. 139, No.36 ................. 23
Rapid Scales ( RH and LH) and Broken Chords
Over Chordal Accompaniment
11.Czerny Op. 599, No.56 ................. 24
Chromatic Scales Over Staccato
Broken-Chord Accom/Janiment
12. Heller Op.45, No.18 "Impatience" ........ 25
RH Legato Scale Melody Over LH
Leaping Chordal Accompaniment
Charles-Louis Hanan ........................ 7
Stephen Heller............................. 8
Practicing Hanan to Promote Technical
and Musical Mastery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Practice Alternatives for Hanon Exercises & scales . . . . I 0
Additional Ways to Practice Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
• Voicing double-note and double-stemmed
melodies and accomJJaniments
• Control and continuity of melodies
divided between the hands
1. Czerny Op.139, No.38 ................. 28
RH Double-T hirds Melody Over Sustained
Bass and Broken-Chord Accom/Janiment
2. Czerny Op. 718, No.12 .................. 29
LH Legato Double-Thirds Accompaniment
Against a RH Melody
3. Czerny Op.599, No.57 ................. 30
RH Staccato Double-Notes Over Repeated-Chord
and Broken-Chord Accom/Janiment
"Etude in G Minor" (In Venice) ........... 31
Expressive RH Double-Note Melody Over
Broken-Chord and Repeated-Chord Accompaniment
5. Czerny Op. 139, No.23 ................. 33
Voicing and Sustaining Bass in Broken-Chord
Accom/Janiment with Single-Note RH Melody
6. Heller Op.47, No.2 "At the Brookside" .... 34
RH Single-Note Melody Over LH Sustained Bass
in Broken-Chord Accompaniment
7. Czerny Op. 849, No. 4 .................. 36
Voicing Double-Stemmed Note in RH Broken Chord
Against LH Legato Single-Note Line
8. Burgmiiller Op.100, No.13 "Consolation" .. 38
Voicing and Shaping Double-Stemmed
Melody Notes in RH and LH
9. Burgmiiller Op.109, No.1 "Confidence" .... 40
Voicing RH Double-Stemmed Triplet Melody;
Single-Note Melody Against Triplet Broken-Chord
Accom/Janiment
10.Czerny Op.849, No.10 ................. 42
Legato Broken Chords Divided Between the Hands
11.Czerny Op.849, No.29 ................. 44
Legato Scales Divided Between the Hands
12. Heller Op.45, No. 2 "The Avalanche"...... 45
Melody Divided Between the Hands
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• Clarity and shaping of melodies with

repeated notes over chordal accompaniments
•�1:: control of melodies
involving crossing hands
• Integrating grace notes, turns and trills • Clarity and evenness of broken-chord
with clarity into a melodic line melodies and accompaniments

1. Czerny Op. 599, No.68 ................. 48
RH Repeated-Note Melody Over
LH Broken-Chord Accompaniment
2. Czerny Op.599, No.44 ................. 49
RH Repeated-Note Melody Over
Repeated-Chord Accompaniment
3. Burgmiiller Op. 100, No. 17
"The Chatterbox". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 0
Melody with Repeated Notes Over a LH
Repeated-Chord Accompaniment; Double-Note Melody
Over Repeated-Note Accompaniment
4. Hanon No.46 (excerpt) ................. 52
Trills Emphasizing Agility and Strength
for All Fingers in Both Hands
5. Czerny Op. 599, No. 65 ................. 53
RH Melodic Trills Over a Sustained-Bass
and Broken-Chord Accompaniment
6. Czerny Op.599, No.74 ................. 54
RH Melodic Trills and Turns Over a
Sustained-Bass and Broken-Chord Accompaniment
7. Burgmiiller Op. 100, No. 8 "Gracefulness" .... 55
Melody with Turns (RH and LH)
Against Chordal Accompaniment
8. Czerny Op. 599, No.76 ................. 56
Single-Note Melody with Turns Over a
Sustained-Bass and Broken-Chord Accompaniment
9. Czerny Op. 599, No. 83 ................. 57
Grace-Note Melody Against a Staccato
Broken-Chord Accompaniment
10. Burgmiiller Op. 100, No. 14
"Austrian Dance" ...................... 58
RH Melody with Grace Notes and Varied Articulation,
and LH Broken-Chord Accompaniment
1. Burgmiiller Op. 100, No.24 "The Swallow" .. 60
LH Cross-Over Melody Against
RH Broken-Chords
2. Czerny Op. 599, No.86 ................. 62
Cross-Over Melody (RH and LH)
Against Triplet Broken Chords
3. Czerny Op. 599, No. 90 ................. 63
RH Broken-Chord Melody Over LH Staccato
Broken-Chord Accompaniment
4, Heller Op. 45, No. 1 "The Brook" ......... 64
Lyrical RH Broken Chords Over
LH Legato Single-Note Melody
5. Hanon No.20 ........................ 66
Broken-Chord Extension and
Contraction in Both Hands
6. Heller Op.45, No.24 "Over Hill and Dale" .. 67
RH Lyrical Broken-Chord Melody Over
LH Accompaniment
7. Burgmiiller Op. 100, No. 25
"The Knight Errant" ................... 70
Melody Using Staccato Chords, Chromatic Triplets and
Scale Passages; Accompaniment Using Staccato Chords,
Broken Chords with Sustained Bass Notes (Combines a
wide variety of the technical demands of this book)