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Le Couppey: L'Alphabet, 25 very easy studies, Op. 17

Twenty-five very easy studies for small hands by Félix Le Couppey, who taught piano at the Paris Conservatoire.

The library has all 25, levels 2 to 5.

Pieces

25

Levels

2 to 5

Key signatures

3 flats to 4 sharps

Length

16 to 65 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.

• Study in C, Op. 17 No. 1
  no sharps or flats, 2/2, 21 bars
  No. 1 of 25; level 3
• Study in A, Op. 17 No. 2
  3 sharps, 4/4, 24 bars
  No. 2 of 25; level 3
• Study in G, Op. 17 No. 3
  1 sharp, 3/4, 29 bars
  No. 3 of 25; level 3
• Study in C, Op. 17 No. 4
  no sharps or flats, 3/4, 48 bars
  No. 4 of 25; level 3
• Study in G, Op. 17 No. 5
  1 sharp, 2/2, 27 bars
  No. 5 of 25; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 17 No. 6
  no sharps or flats, 3/8, 33 bars
  No. 6 of 25; level 3
• Study in A, Op. 17 No. 7
  3 sharps, 4/4, 24 bars
  No. 7 of 25; level 4
• Study in F, Op. 17 No. 8
  1 flat, 4/4, 25 bars
  No. 8 of 25; level 3
• Study in C, Op. 17 No. 9
  no sharps or flats, 6/8, 34 bars
  No. 9 of 25; level 4
• Study in F, Op. 17 No. 10
  1 flat, 3/4, 33 bars
  No. 10 of 25; level 3
• Study in G, Op. 17 No. 11
  1 sharp, 2/2, 43 bars
  No. 11 of 25; level 4
• Study in E, Op. 17 No. 12
  4 sharps, 3/4, 48 bars
  No. 12 of 25; level 3
• Study in C, Op. 17 No. 13
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 39 bars
  No. 13 of 25; level 3
• Study in G, Op. 17 No. 14
  1 sharp, 4/4, 35 bars
  No. 14 of 25; level 3
• Study in F, Op. 17 No. 15
  1 flat, 4/4, 16 bars
  No. 15 of 25; level 3
• Study in C, Op. 17 No. 16
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 40 bars
  No. 16 of 25; level 3
• Study in F, Op. 17 No. 17
  1 flat, 4/4, 38 bars
  No. 17 of 25; level 3
• Study in C, Op. 17 No. 18
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 34 bars
  No. 18 of 25; level 3
• Study in F, Op. 17 No. 19
  1 flat, 4/4, 34 bars
  No. 19 of 25; level 3
• Study in E, Op. 17 No. 20
  4 sharps, 3/4, 28 bars
  No. 20 of 25; level 3
• Study in A, Op. 17 No. 21
  3 sharps, 3/4, 46 bars
  No. 21 of 25; level 4
• Study in G, Op. 17 No. 22
  1 sharp, 3/4, 16 bars
  No. 22 of 25; level 3
• Study in F, Op. 17 No. 23
  1 flat, 3/8, 65 bars
  No. 23 of 25; level 3
• Study in G, Op. 17 No. 24
  1 sharp, 2/4, 38 bars
  No. 24 of 25; level 3
• Study in E flat, Op. 17 No. 25
  3 flats, 3/4, 44 bars
  No. 25 of 25; level 5

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 Study in G, Op. 17 No. 5
2. Level 3 Study in C, Op. 17 No. 1 · Study in A, Op. 17 No. 2 · Study in F, Op. 17 No. 8 · Study in E, Op. 17 No. 20 · Study in G, Op. 17 No. 3 · Study in G, Op. 17 No. 22 · Study in C, Op. 17 No. 4 · Study in C, Op. 17 No. 6 · Study in F, Op. 17 No. 10 · Study in F, Op. 17 No. 15 · Study in F, Op. 17 No. 19 · Study in G, Op. 17 No. 14 · Study in F, Op. 17 No. 17 · Study in G, Op. 17 No. 24 · Study in C, Op. 17 No. 13 · Study in C, Op. 17 No. 16 · Study in C, Op. 17 No. 18 · Study in E, Op. 17 No. 12 · Study in F, Op. 17 No. 23
3. Level 4 Study in A, Op. 17 No. 7 · Study in C, Op. 17 No. 9 · Study in G, Op. 17 No. 11 · Study in A, Op. 17 No. 21
4. Level 5 Study in E flat, Op. 17 No. 25

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