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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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ses on the 14 . Lesson — 145 Remarks on the Nature of Intervals 151 16 . LESSON. On the Time or Degree of Movement 156 List of Italian words relating thereto - 156 Continuation of the Finger-Exercises 158 76^ LESSON. On Graces or Notes of Embellishment, and the Signs employed to indicate them 1 Continuation of the 16 V1 Lesson. On Graces expressed by particular characters 163 Exercises on Graces and Embellishments - 166 17l.h LESSON. On the Shake - m Continuation of the 17V1 Lesson. Shakes with both hands, and Double Shakes 173 Practical Exercises on the Shake - 178 18V1 LESSON. On Style and Expression, and the characters used to indicate them 184 On the Forte and Piano 1 -- 184 On the Legato and Staccato - 186 On retarding and accelerating the degree of movement 189 19^LESSON. On the 24 Keys or Scales - - - 191 Practical Exercises on the more difficult Keys 202 Concluding Remarks on the First Part - 216 JflJVD OF VOL. J. 3192 NW. A lint of-Subscribers is (riven in the Third Volume.
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v></ FRIEDEL LITH. 252 TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD a„d „ -r He PO LYTETC H N IC INST309 RECENT STREET. PREFACE by the AUTHOR. Every succeedingyear, Pianoforte playing- is more widely cultivated and more highlyrated in public estimation. The instrument itself is constantly receiving-progressiveimprovements both as to its tone, and to the manner of treating- it. Melody, thatnoblest branch of the art, can now be expressed on it, in the fullest and richesttones, and most varied shades of expression; numerous composers and Virtuosi hour-ly invite us to practice, by the invention of new passag-es, and effects, not beforethoug-ht of; and every day serves more firmly to establish the conviction, that thePianoforte can never be displaced, nor even thrown into the shade by any other in-strument; as also, that it is the only one really adapted for the fair sex, while it isof all others, that of which the study is least likely to cause any injury to thehealth. , This continual advance in its g

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