Piano Terms

[beginner10]

I know a few works like "Ecole du Mecanisme", by le Couppey, and "Etudes de Mecanisme", by Czerny, but I don't understand the meaning of the word Mechanism. I know it is not related to the piano mechanism. It is rather related to the movements of the fingers, I think.  Can someone please explain what that word really mean?

[dcstudio]

Czerny is called the school of velocity    but also...   technique...   mechanized execution of different "cells" or groups of notes that are commonly used piano music...the idea is to make them so second nature that they roll right off the fingers

[imaginatorium]

I'm not really a French speaker, but I guess you can think of the French 'mecanisme' as equivalent to English "technique".

[ferron123]

Maybe I can help you a little bit about the word ''Mechanisme'' in french

Basically, ''Mecanisme'' means the same as mecanism in english. Like : ''an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.''

In French literature, poetry and in older French (like in Czerny's time), Mecanisme often refers to the mechanism of the body; it is compared to a machine.

''Etudes du Mecanisme'' would mean the exact same thing as ''Study of the mecanism''.
And ''ecole'' means school.

Can't help you much more than that, since I'm not sure what technique actually is hahahah


Have a nice day !
Mathieu