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Streabbog: Twelve Melodious Studies, Op. 63

Twelve short studies (about 1870) by Louis Gobbaerts, who signed his teaching pieces Streabbog, his name spelled backwards. Each is a tune with a plain accompaniment, given to beginners once they read both clefs: in C, G and F major and A minor, in common, 3/4, 2/4 and 6/8 time, with staccato, grace notes and repeated chords to practise.

The library has all 12, levels 2 to 4.

Pieces

12

Levels

2 to 4

Key signatures

1 flat to 1 sharp

Length

27 to 44 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. 63 No. 1
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 29 bars
  No. 1 of 12; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 63 No. 2
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 40 bars
  No. 2 of 12; level 3
• Study in G, Op. 63 No. 3
  1 sharp, 3/4, 29 bars
  No. 3 of 12; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 63 No. 4
  no sharps or flats, 6/8, 32 bars
  No. 4 of 12; level 3
• Study in G, Op. 63 No. 5
  1 sharp, 3/4, 34 bars
  No. 5 of 12; level 3
• Study in C, Op. 63 No. 6
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 27 bars
  No. 6 of 12; level 3
• Study in F, Op. 63 No. 7
  1 flat, 4/4, 33 bars
  No. 7 of 12; level 3
• Study in C, Op. 63 No. 8
  no sharps or flats, 2/4, 40 bars
  No. 8 of 12; level 3
• Study in F, Op. 63 No. 9
  1 flat, 2/4, 44 bars
  No. 9 of 12; level 4
• Study in A minor, Op. 63 No. 10
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 30 bars
  No. 10 of 12; level 3
• Study in G, Op. 63 No. 11
  1 sharp, 4/4, 28 bars
  No. 11 of 12; level 3
• Study in C, Op. 63 No. 12
  no sharps or flats, 2/4, 36 bars
  No. 12 of 12; 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 Study in C, Op. 63 No. 1 · Study in G, Op. 63 No. 3
2. Level 3 Study in C, Op. 63 No. 6 · Study in A minor, Op. 63 No. 10 · Study in F, Op. 63 No. 7 · Study in G, Op. 63 No. 5 · Study in G, Op. 63 No. 11 · Study in C, Op. 63 No. 2 · Study in C, Op. 63 No. 4 · Study in C, Op. 63 No. 8 · Study in C, Op. 63 No. 12
3. Level 4 Study in F, Op. 63 No. 9

Other teaching books

Every book five or more library pieces are from.

• Köhler's Very Easiest Exercise Pieces, Op. 190 24
• Beyer's Vorschule im Klavierspiel, Op. 101 14
• Gurlitt's The First Lessons, Op. 117 34 of 34
• Duvernoy's École primaire, Op. 176 16 of 25
• Mozart's first pieces, K. 1a–1f 6 of 6
• Streabbog's Twelve Melodious Studies, Op. 63 12 of 12
• Burgmüller's 25 Easy Studies, Op. 100 25 of 25
• Le Couppey's L'Alphabet, Op. 17 25 of 25
• Anna Magdalena Bach's Notebook (1725) 20 of 20
• 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