100 Progressive Studies without Octaves, Op. 139: Piano Technique (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics, Vol. 153) [Paperback] Review

As the title indicates, these pieces are indeed progressive.The C major tonality wears somewhat tiresome in the first pages, but the last pages contain pieces written in difficult keys.

Much of the work is written according to the usual cliches found in intermediate piano solos, but much of it is original and ingenious also.The harmony grows somewhat more pungent in the second half.I counted 1 Phrygian cadence, 1 Italian sixth, 2 German sixths, and 3 Neopolitan sixths.

You will certainly get your money's worth in terms of quantity.A complete rendition of this book lasts about 2 hours.

This work is well-known here in Korea, and it is here that I first learned about it.

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Op. 139 begins with an easy level of pieces and gradually increases to a moderately difficult level. Some of the technical devices in these pieces include: right-hand melody with left-hand accompaniment; diatonic and chromatic scalar and arpeggio figurations; syncopated melodies and trills. Many of the studies can be transposed into other keys and practiced at varied tempos.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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