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KLAVARSCORE BEYER PIANO COURSE



Contents:

Scale of E Major
-  Ornaments:  1 - On Graces indicated by Small Notes
-                         1a   Appogiatura
-                         1b  Mordent  or Transient Shake
Czerny Exercise 1
Czerny Exercise 2
Czerny Exercise 3
Additional Song "Song without Words - Romanza sin palabras"




Additional information and accompanying files for Lesson 80-89



For an explanation on how to use the Scrolling files as a valuable practice tool, see the Scrolling page

Music Vocabulary

Loco                            Play the notes as printed (used to Indicate, discontinuance of 8va).
Staccato (stacc.)      Cut off suddenly; short tones.



Scale of E Major

 

The scale of E major begins at the note "E". The pattern of whole and half steps for major scales has been explained on Page 60-60. Using that pattern, the E Major scale is built as follows:

Note:       E       F#    G#      A       B      C#      D#      E
No.:           1        2       3        4        5       6         7       8 (=1)
Distance:     1    -   1   -   ½  -   1    -   1    -    1   -   ½ 
In Words:    w  -  w   -   h   -   w  -   w  -  w  -   h


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Ornaments

Words of Instruction by the Composer/Teacher, Carl Czerny.

On Graces or Notes of Embellishment (Ornaments)

By Graces [also known as ornaments] are to be understood certain little additions which are added to the simple notes of a melody, to impart to it new charms, and without which it would appear too simple and bald.
Such embellishments are either indicated by small sized notes or by peculiar characters.

KlavarScore notation makes more use of small notes than standard notation, so there is no need to learn what a bunch of symbols (“peculiar characters”) for different types of graces mean.

The graces found on this website are according to Czerny’s instructions, shown exactly where he states they should be commenced, i.e. on the beat precisely where the full-sized note would be shown in Standard Music Notation. All the quotes were taken directly from Czerny’s “Complete Theoretical and Practical Piano Forte School” Opus 500.

1 - On Graces indicated by Small Notes

1a - Appoggiatura

The most simple Grace consists of one small note only, which is called an Appoggiatura.

According to the Rule, the short Appoggiatura, of which we shall treat first, must always be played so quick, that it does not take from the following large note any perceptible portion of its duration; it must therefore never be held down, but the finger which is to play it must be raised at the very instant that the following large note is struck.

 

When a simple Appoggiatura of this kind stands before a chord or a pair of double notes, it belongs only to that note which stands close to it. It must therefore be struck simultaneously with all the other notes; and that note which is next to it must be struck instantly afterwards. In a similar way, the Appoggiatura must be struck together with the accompaniment in the other hand.

 

Long Appoggiatura
The small stemmed note is shown small to indicate that it is a type of ornament and the duration (1 or 2 beats) is up to the player.

When this note is in a repeated part, the first time it is played the note is held for two beats, and on the repeat it should be held for one beat.


1b - Mordent  or Transient Shake


Also called upper mordent or Pralltriller (German) and Mordant (French)], which in the words of the teacher:  consists of two notes which are added to the written note so that this latter is struck twice, but between its repercussion, is placed an added note lying one degree higher in scale than the principal one itself  [or one degree lower in scale as is the case with what is modernly called the inverted mordent (or lower mordent) found mainly in the music of earlier classical composers].

In his Opus 500, Czerny, the teacher, describes the playing of the mordent exactly as he describes the playing of the appoggiatura with regards to its quickness, and where it begins (on the beat) but unlike the appoggiatura, there is no stemmed note after the ornament which receives the accent. Rather, the accent is given to the final small note which appears as simply a note head in Klavar notation. These are often shown in Klavar notation with a slur over the small notes to help indicate that this is an ornamented note, similar to how the note(s) of the appoggiatura are shown connected by a slur to the following note.


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Supplementary exercises by Carl Czerny (Opus 453) to complement the Beyer course

We have provided the scores in C and C# major according to Czerny's instructions: "The pupil should practice the first fourteen exercises transposed into C#, employing the same fingering even in places where some difficulty is encountered by doing so."


Exercise 1

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We have provided the scores in C and C# major according to Czerny's instructions: "The pupil should practice the first fourteen exercises transposed into C#, employing the same fingering even in places where some difficulty is encountered by doing so."

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To download this exercise in Scrolling format click here
To download the Audio file of this exercise click here

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Exercise 2

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We have provided the scores in C and C# major according to Czerny's instructions: "The pupil should practice the first fourteen exercises transposed into C#, employing the same fingering even in places where some difficulty is encountered by doing so."

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To download this exercise in Scrolling format click here
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Exercise 3

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We have provided the scores in C and C# major according to Czerny's instructions: "The pupil should practice the first fourteen exercises transposed into C#, employing the same fingering even in places where some difficulty is encountered by doing so."


To download the Audio file of this exercise click here
To download this exercise in Tablet format click here
To download this exercise in Scrolling format click here


 

 

 

 

 


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Additional Song

"Song without Words - Romanza sin palabras"


No. 4 from "Six short pieces for Recreation" in the Scharfenberg edition of the Beyer piano lessons, composed by the German pianist and composer Fritz Spindler (1817-1905).

 

Tempo 120 BPM

To download this exercise in
Tablet format:                click here
Scrolling format:           click here
Audio file:                        click here
Right Hand Audio file:  click here
Left Hand Audio file:    click here

Because the Right Hand and the Left Hand do not begin at the same time, COUNTING IS VERY IMPORTANT!

For practicing start the Video first, then the Audio.
This piece is in 3/4 measure, it has no upbeat: 3 ticks in advance.

The complete Song:

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Right Hand, you play the Left Hand:

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Left Hand, you play the Right Hand:

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