Identifier: completetheoreti01czer (find matches)
Title: Complete theoretical and practical piano forte school : from the first rudiments of playing to the highest and most refined state of cultivation with the requisite numerous examples newly and expressly composed for the occasion, opera 500
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Czerny, Carl, 1791-1857 Hamilton, J. A. trl
Subjects: Piano
Publisher: London : R. Cocks
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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curs as often therefore, as the key-board contains groups of ,two blackkeys. The Pupil must now try to find out and strike one after anotherall the Cs on the instrument, for which purpose the following- representa-tion of the key- board will be found of assistance. After C follows (between the group of two black keys) the key D, whichlies next to it on the rig-ht. After this comes E; next to this F (whichis placed close to the group of three black keys.) Next comes G; then A, and lastly B. After this ag-ain comes a C, and then all the 7 keysare repeated ag*ain and ag-ain to the end of the key-board. § 20. The Pupil must now dilig-ently look out for all these keys, strikethem, and name them aloud; at first all the Cs, that are to be found onthe key-board, then all the Ds, next all the Es, and so on: he must thenlearn to name readily while striking- them, all the white keys in their re_g-ular order, first in ascending-, and afterwards also in descending, viz: C, B, A,G, F, E, D. 319S?.
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Distribution of the White Keys. § 21. All keys of the same name have also a great similarity in sound; and are onlydistinguishable from each other hy a difference of acuteness or gravity as to theirpitch. These similarly named keys, form each one as compared with the one imme_diately above or below it, what is termed an OCTAVE; they are thus eaUedJbecausein the space from one to the other inclusive, eight consecutive keys or notes arecontained. Thus the interval from any one C to the C nearest to it, is called anOctave; the same takes place from one D to the next D, from one E to thenext E, &c: &c: 5 22. To distinguish all these OCTAVES from one another, the octaves C, C, areindicated by numbers, with the exception of the lowest octave, which is called theDOUBLE OCTAVE. Next to this comes the First octave, then the second, then the3^,4^, and bV1 octaves, from C to C, and lastly the notes of the 61.11 octave, sofar as the key hoard extends. See the Representation of the Piano-

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