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Lemoine: Études enfantines, 50 children's studies, Op. 37

Fifty short studies for children by Henry Lemoine, a Paris piano teacher and music publisher, still printed today.

The library has 29 of the book's 50 numbers, levels 2 to 5. Not in the library: Nos. 3, 8–11, 13, 18, 20, 23–27, 31, 36, 37, 41, 44, and 46–48.

Pieces

29

Levels

2 to 5

Key signatures

3 flats to 4 sharps

Length

16 to 88 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.

• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 1
  no sharps or flats, 2/2, 16 bars
  No. 1 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 2
  no sharps or flats, 2/2, 16 bars
  No. 2 of 50; level 2
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 4
  1 sharp, 2/4, 22 bars
  No. 4 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 5
  no sharps or flats, 2/4, 16 bars
  No. 5 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 6
  no sharps or flats, 3/8, 72 bars
  No. 6 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 7
  1 sharp, 3/4, 54 bars
  No. 7 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 12
  no sharps or flats, 2/4, 30 bars
  No. 12 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 14
  1 sharp, 2/2, 48 bars
  No. 14 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 15
  2 sharps, 2/4, 28 bars
  No. 15 of 50; level 4
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 16
  1 sharp, 2/4, 18 bars
  No. 16 of 50; level 4
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 17
  2 sharps, 2/4, 58 bars
  No. 17 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 19
  1 flat, 6/8, 56 bars
  No. 19 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 21
  3 sharps, 6/8, 73 bars
  No. 21 of 50; level 4
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 22
  1 sharp, 6/8, 28 bars
  No. 22 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 28
  no sharps or flats, 6/8, 48 bars
  No. 28 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 29
  1 flat, 2/4, 88 bars
  No. 29 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 30
  2 flats, 2/2, 32 bars
  No. 30 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 32
  2 sharps, 2/2, 64 bars
  No. 32 of 50; level 4
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 33
  1 sharp, 4/4, 24 bars
  No. 33 of 50; level 4
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 34
  1 sharp, 3/8, 76 bars
  No. 34 of 50; level 4
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 35
  no sharps or flats, 6/8, 24 bars
  No. 35 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 38
  no sharps or flats, 3/8, 56 bars
  No. 38 of 50; level 4
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 39
  4 sharps, 2/4, 40 bars
  No. 39 of 50; level 4
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 40
  3 sharps, 2/4, 35 bars
  No. 40 of 50; level 4
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 42
  1 sharp, 3/8, 56 bars
  No. 42 of 50; level 4
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 43
  3 flats, 2/4, 36 bars
  No. 43 of 50; level 4
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 45
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 28 bars
  No. 45 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 49
  1 sharp, 3/4, 32 bars
  No. 49 of 50; level 3
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 50
  3 flats, 2/4, 24 bars
  No. 50 of 50; 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 Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 2
2. Level 3 Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 1 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 4 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 5 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 6 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 7 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 12 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 14 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 17 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 19 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 22 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 28 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 29 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 30 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 35 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 45 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 49
3. Level 4 Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 15 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 16 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 21 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 32 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 33 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 34 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 38 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 39 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 40 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 42 · Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 43
4. Level 5 Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 50

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