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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 17, 2019
    • 4 min

    Czerny Op 335 #1, 2 Versions

    It’s well to go into some detail analyzing my approach to this first study of Op 335; the analysis can serve as illustration of my approa...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 17, 2019
    • 1 min

    Czerny op 335 #2, 2 Versions

    This is certainly very modest music, and at Czerny’s deliberate tempo you have to work to keep it from sounding banal. But the clear 2-pa...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 17, 2019
    • 1 min

    Czerny Op 335 #3, Single Version

    This is great frappe music. The energetic staccato and the 8th note anacruses in the A Section powerfully energize the downbeats--the “st...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 17, 2019
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 335 #4, Single Version

    Almost all the studies of Op 335 feature polyphony in 2 or more voices, and often, as here, 3 and 4 voices. But with 4 voices Czerny tend...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 17, 2019
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 335 #5, 2 Versions

    Like many of the studies of op 335 this one is in simple binary form and four-square structure, making it ready-made for ballet class...e...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 4 min

    Czerny Op 335 #6, 6 versions

    In several ways this is the ideal Czerny study for a ballet accompanist. Its four-square binary structure is ready-made for ballet class,...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 335 #7, 2 Versions

    A certain amount of Baroque-sounding music and Baroque-sounding counterpoint, if not too dense or complicated, has always been welcome in...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 335 #8, 2 Versions

    The light drumming 4- and 8-note figures played at great speed, moving diatonically up and down the keyboard, and the fairly static harmo...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 1 min

    Czerny op 335 #9, 3 versions

    The part-writing of #9, even though often in 5 voices, is less dense and rigorous than that of #5. This is a demanding study in voicing, ...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 335 #10, 2 Versions

    The speed, the dotting, the descending LH octaves, the dense texture of staccato 16th’s, the triumphant harmonies--all that makes #10 a p...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 1 min

    Czerny Op 335 #11, Single Version

    The basic compositional principle of #11 is a contrast of textures: thick chords on each beat, contrasting with syncopated melodic materi...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 335 #12, 2 Versions

    Czerny spells out his polyphony with rigor here: the ties, rests and note-stems make the 4 voices clear to the eye, and the fingering mak...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 335 #13, Single Version

    I think of this study, and its companion variation in triplets, #14, as one of Op 335’s “abstractions.” In an unchanging rhythm and barel...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 1 min

    Czerny Op 335 #14, Single Version

    As I’ve explained in my commentary to #13, I think of this study as a kind of “abstraction” in which the “feel” of playing it (the handsh...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 4 min

    Czerny Op 335 #15, 2 versions

    In a collection full of interesting “character pieces” #15 stands out for its drama. Czerny marks it “molto allegro,” and the repeated ch...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 335 #16, 3 Versions

    This study actually “looks” like grands battements music, with it’s powerful two-handed chords in octave leaps. There are many ways a tea...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 335 #17, Single Version

    For me the great appeal of this tuneful study has nothing to do with its possible usefulness in ballet class. I like it because it’s very...
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    rudyapffel-czerny
    • Mar 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 335 #18, 2 Versions

    If you want to use this long and difficult study for ballet class you can take several shortcuts, among which is using only Czerny’s RH m...
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