Czerny

What is the order of Czerny's exercises in crescent difficult? Which Opus are easy and which are medium/difficult?

hat is the order of Czerny's exercises in crescent difficult? Which Opus are easy and which are medium/difficult?

[]s Fernando Rauber ICQ: 2281311

The following collection, published by Alfred, contains short studies from opp. 139, 261, 599, 821, 335, 636, 829, and 849 in approximate increasing level of difficulty. The School of Dexterity, School of Velocity, etc. are all valuable in themselves and are somewhat progressive in their own right—and etudes from the same opus number will tend to build upon one another in encouraging facility—but for a though-out overall picture of Czerny's exercises with intermixed selections from most of his best-known works, I recommend:

Czerny-Germer Selected Piano Studies Arranged in Systematic Order by Heinrich Germner Edited by William A. Palmer.

[p.s. I have never seen 'opp.' as the plural abbreviated form of 'op.', or opus (work). Is this standard and something I've just never noticed???]

First, I learn WoO, and now opp., from VFM. Thanks.

And the plural of Opus is Opera?

Deepak

I thought the plural of Opus was Opusses... Opi? Opie? Oprah?

(just kidding)

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If the singular is Operum.

<<> And the plural of Opus is Opera? If the singular is Operum.

Dwain >>

Well, actually, yes, it is opera; it's 3rd neuter; the genitive's operis. Don't we all love Latin grammar?

I suppose I don't normally refer to multiple opuses in the same phrase without naming each opus separately with the amendment 'op', and if such lumping of multiple 'opp.'s by others without repeating 'op' before each piece is common practice, then yes, it has certainly escaped my attention.

How so? Your guess is as good as mine.

Good catch. : P Someone knows his neuter nominative plurals. Of course, if we imagine that 'opus' were Greek and not Latin, like 'octopus' (whose proper plural is 'octopodes' then we have:

Opus

I thought that's what you say when you've got a headcold, and can't get the childproof cap off the medicine bottle:

'How the heck do you opodes darn things?!'

Actually the plural of opus is, indeed, opera, but you virtually never see it written that way. It's sort of a trivia question. Ostensibly this is due to the possible confusion with opera's other, singular meaning.

The abbreviation opp. is common as well as the word opuses. It is quite useful and necessary when discussing opus-numbered works as when one says, 'in opp. 10 and 25 of Chopin...' If you said, 'in opera 10 and 25 of Chopin...', it would be confusing. If Chopin had ever written any operas, it would be even more confusing.

Don