Quiz | Czerny’s Systematische Anleitung

Just a little bit of fun, and basically to avoid the video becoming even longer and listier, here is a little quiz!

1) What do you need to be a good improviser?

2) Which part of this theme does Czerny think you should develop?

3) What was this prelude called in the Baroque period?

4) What makes a good theme for Variations?

Answers after this question mark:

 

Quiz Answer:

1)What do you need to be a good improviser?

According to Czerny:

1.Natural talent: inventiveness, lively imagination, big musical memory, fast mind, luckily organised fingers.

2.Good education in all parts of the science of harmony, surprising modulations, knowledge of counterpoint and all the forms and genres in composition.

3.Virtuosity or capability on your instrument. Ample practice on your instrument.

4.His book (NB: Czerny doesn’t add this in the row of answers to this question, but elsewhere does imply it)

 

2)Which part of this theme does Czerny think you should develop?

ANSWER:

Bar 2, top line.

3) What was this prelude called in the Baroque period?

Prelude non mesuré

4) What makes a good theme for Variations?

A theme for variations has a nice melody, few modulations, two equal parts and is rhythmically simple.