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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    Czerny Op 740 #42, 3 Versions

    There’s a lot to recommend #42 to a ballet accompanist. If you fill out Czerny’s LH with a light waltz accompaniment it makes a solid...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    Czerny Op 740 #43, 5 Versions

    I can get Czerny’s arpeggiation up to around the quarter @90, and mm 1-16 with repeats make a lovely short Adagio (2 sets of 8 on each...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    Czerny Op 740 #44, 4 Versions

    I love the sparkle of Czerny’s note pattern here, and the music remains quite effective with the metronome at 100 rather than his 120....
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    Czerny Op 740 #45, 5 Versions

    The passionate rush of this gorgeously Mendelssohnian song without words makes it great Chaines and Pas de Couru music. You might even...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 740 #46, 2 Versions

    Several things recommend #46. There’s the division of labor between hands and the regularity of phrases and structure. It’s also...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 740 #47, 2 Versions

    The two textures of #47--the RH’s skittery-spidery 32nds, and the LH’s stolid stride--can each be projected with different characters...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 740 #48, 2 Versions

    This is another of the studies that I think of as “gestural” as opposed to “textural.” Other clear examples are #13 and #26, and in my...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 740 #49, 3 Versions

    I loved this study from the first time I played through it. The simple scalar material is very easy to read (and I’m not a sight reader)...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    Czerny Op 740 #50, 2 Versions

    At a tempo well under Czerny’s, this dark surging arpeggio study makes excellent Grands Battements music, and working it up for ballet...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    Czerny Op 740 #29, 3 Versions

    I can almost reach Czerny’s tempo (using his fingering and keeping my RH fixed but relaxed in position close to the keyboard), but as is...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 740 #30, 3 Versions

    My arrangements of #30 have the principle aim of shortening and simplifying Czerny’s study to make it more easily mastered, effective in...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 5 min

    Czerny Op 740 #31: 5 Versions

    This is one of those studies whose bottom-line recommendation is the workout for both hands and a regular phrase structure that makes for...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    Czerny Op 740 #32, Single Version

    Don’t take the repeat at m 8, insert a bar between m 15 and m 16, fashion a grand cadence at Czerny’s m 31, and #32 neatly resolves into...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 740 #33, 4 Versions

    This is another of those graceful, tuneful studies that make me think of Czerny as the Bournonville of the piano. In keeping with his...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    Czerny Op 740 #34, Single Version

    I think if you’re not careful you can injure yourself trying to get #34 to Czerny’s metronome marking, and the very slight music makes...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 740 #35, 2 Versions

    I like this study not for its music but for its technique. Changing fingers on repeated notes in both hands is good for warming up and of...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 740 #36, 3 Versions

    On the page #36 certainly looks like a barcarolle, but Czerny’s tempo is much faster than the typical19th Century “boat music.” If you...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 740 #37, 2 Versions

    I loved working on this study and getting it into my class repertory. It lies well in my hands and it’s always very exciting in class....
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    Czerny Op 740 #38, Single Version

    Part of the charm of this powerful toccata is the in-and-out-of focus meter, but, while there are a number of shortcuts and...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    Czerny Op 740 #39, 2 Versions

    This study will work for ballet class across a wide range of tempos slower than Czerny’s, but I find it sounds sluggish unless I project...
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