Essential Keyboard Études

Ed. Albert Mendoza

This essential collection of 100 piano études is divided into 15 units that survey the technical challenges at the early intermediate, intermediate, and late intermediate levels. The early units review technical issues that students experience at the elementary levels, such as five-finger patterns and articulations. The later units introduce more difficult technical challenges that prepare students for advanced repertoire, such as playing ornamentation, octaves, and large chords. Each unit contains between five and ten études written by master composers from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary periods. Within each unit, the études are arranged in order of difficulty. Each piece appears in its original form; notes have not been added or removed. The composers' original dynamics, tempo marks, phrase indications, and articulations have been preserved. Ornamentation is realized in footnotes. Added measure numbers provide easy reference, and editorial suggestions for fingering and pedaling have been provided. A concise foreword discusses technique at the intermediate levels. Two indexes are included: one by unit and technical skill, and another by level and composer.

Unit listing: Five-Finger Patterns * Articulation * Coordination between the Hands * Scales * Triads, Inversions, and Broken Chords * Double Notes * Left-Hand Development * Velocity * Arpeggios * Finger and Hand Independence * Repeated Notes * Accompaniment Patterns * Ornamentation * Octaves * Four- and Five-Note Chords.

Includes:

• Étude in C Major, Op. 108, No. 1 by Ludvig Schytte
• The Chase (Scherzo), Op. 17, No. 6 by Felix Le Couppey
• Étude in A Minor, Op. 101, No. 60 by Ferdinand Beyer
• Folk Melody, Sz. 53, No. 10 by Béla Bartók
• Étude in C Major, Op. 599, No. 18 by Carl Czerny
• The Dancing Master, Op. 61, No. 6 by Theodore Oesten
• Étude in G Major ("On the Green"), Op. 63, No. 3J by Jean-Louis Streabbog
• The BearVladimir Rebikov
• Étude in A Minor, Op. 108, No. 5Ludvig Schytte
• Bagatelle, Op. 125, No. 10Anton Diabelli
• Teasing Song, Sz. 42, Book II, No. 18Béla Bartók
• Chord Study, Op. 166, No. 6Henri Bertini
• Étude in D Minor, Op. 261, No. 53Carl Czerny
• Étude in A Minor ("The Avalanche"), Op. 45, No. 2Stephen Heller
• AcrobatVladimir Rebikov
• Préludes, Op. 67, Nos. 16 & 23Johann Nepomuk Hummel
• Étude in G Major, Op. 82, No. 34Cornelius Gurlitt
• Giga, Op. 12, No. 2Samuel Arnold
• Étude in C Major ("A Pleasant Morning"), Op. 63, No. 1Jean-Louis Streabbog
• Étude in C Major, Op. 599, No. 19Carl Czerny
• Étude in C Major, Op. 141, No. 4Cornelius Gurlitt
• Étude in C Major ("Progress"), Op. 100, No. 6Johann Friedrich Burgmüller
• Étude in C Major, Op. 101, No. 108Ferdinand Beyer
• Étude in A Major, Op. 47, No. 8Stephen Heller
• Étude in F Major, Op. 599, No. 56Carl Czerny
• Étude in C Major, Op. 249, No. 65Louis Köhler
• Étude in C Major, Op. 300, No. 75Louis Köhler
• ScherzoCarl Maria von Weber
• Little Étude, Op. 68, No. 14Robert Schumann
• Étude in C Major, Op. 242, No. 3Louis Köhler
• Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4Frédéric Chopin
• Prayer, Op. 130, No. 4Cornelius Gurlitt
• Prelude in F Major, BWV 927Johann Sebastian Bach
• Prelude in C Minor, BWV 999Johann Sebastian Bach
• Étude in C Major, Op. 101, No. 84Ferdinand Beyer
• Menuetto, Sz. 53, No. 16Béla Bartók
• Étude in C Major, Op. 176, No. 24Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy
• Spinning Song, Op. 14, No. 4Albert Ellmenreich
• Étude in Thirds, Op. 823, No. 68Carl Czerny
• Étude in D Major, Op. 599, No. 52Carl Czerny
• Étude in G Minor, Op. 47, No. 14Stephen Heller
• Étude in F Major, Op. 82, No. 39Cornelius Gurlitt
• Étude in G Major, Op. 108, No. 12Ludvig Schytte
• Étude in D Minor, Op. 82, No. 65Cornelius Gurlitt
• Étude in D Minor, Op. 89, Book II, No. 4Hermann Berens
• Étude in C Minor ("Ballade"), Op. 100, No. 15Johann Friedrich Burgmüller
• The Happy Farmer, Op. 68, No. 10Robert Schumann
• Étude in F Minor, Op. 89, Book II, No. 10Hermann Berens
• and more!

ISBN 10: 1-4706-2740-X
ISBN 13: 978-1-4706-2740-9
UPC: 038081508207