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Duvernoy: École primaire, 25 elementary studies, Op. 176

Twenty-five elementary studies for the first years of playing, a French teaching book still printed today.

The library has 16 of the book's 25 numbers, levels 2 to 4. Not in the library: Nos. 12, 14, 17, and 20–25.

Pieces

16

Levels

2 to 4

Key signatures

2 flats to 3 sharps

Length

21 to 56 bars

In the book's order

Each with its number and level, and easier versions made from the score itself, so you can start below a piece's level and work up to it as written.

• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 1
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 33 bars
  No. 1 of 25; level 2
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 2
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 25 bars
  No. 2 of 25; level 2
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 3
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 24 bars
  No. 3 of 25; level 2
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 4
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 31 bars
  No. 4 of 25; level 2
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 5
  1 sharp, 4/4, 22 bars
  No. 5 of 25; level 3
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 6
  1 sharp, 4/4, 21 bars
  No. 6 of 25; level 3
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 7
  1 flat, 4/4, 48 bars
  No. 7 of 25; level 3
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 8
  1 flat, 4/4, 40 bars
  No. 8 of 25; level 3
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 9
  2 sharps, 4/4, 22 bars
  No. 9 of 25; level 3
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 10
  2 sharps, 4/4, 24 bars
  No. 10 of 25; level 3
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 11
  1 sharp, 4/4, 25 bars
  No. 11 of 25; level 3
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 13
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 24 bars
  No. 13 of 25; level 3
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 15
  3 sharps, 2/2, 24 bars
  No. 15 of 25; level 3
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 16
  1 sharp, 4/4, 24 bars
  No. 16 of 25; level 4
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 18
  no sharps or flats, 3/4, 56 bars
  No. 18 of 25; level 3
• Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 19
  2 flats, 4/4, 40 bars
  No. 19 of 25; level 3

An order to learn them in

The same pieces from the easiest, by the level fitted to each score; within a level, in the book's order. Teachers skip about in these books, and so can you.

1. Level 2 Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 1 · Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 2 · Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 3 · Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 4
2. Level 3 Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 5 · Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 6 · Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 7 · Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 8 · Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 9 · Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 10 · Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 11 · Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 13 · Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 15 · Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 18 · Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 19
3. Level 4 Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 16

Other teaching books

Every book five or more library pieces are from.

• Köhler's Very Easiest Exercise Pieces, Op. 190 24
• Duvernoy's École primaire, Op. 176 16 of 25
• Mozart's first pieces, K. 1a–1f 6 of 6
• Anna Magdalena Bach's Notebook (1725) 10 of 20
• Burgmüller's 25 Easy Studies, Op. 100 16 of 25
• Le Couppey's L'Alphabet, Op. 17 25 of 25
• Lemoine's Études enfantines, Op. 37 29 of 50
• Czerny's 160 Eight-Measure Exercises, Op. 821 19 of 160
• Czerny's School of Velocity, Op. 299 6 of 40
• Clementi's Six Sonatinas, Op. 36 6 of 6
• Schumann's Album for the Young, Op. 68 21 of 43
• Schumann's Kinderszenen, Op. 15 7 of 13
• Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28 8 of 24