Answer:
the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
"he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience"
Explanation:
In the text it says, "She taught me my scales and exercises, too, on the little parlor organ", "I struggled with the 'Harmonious Blacksmith'", and "<span>I had been doggedly beating out some easy passages from an old score of 'Euryanthe'". The boy mostly practiced scales and exercises, but he also played "Harmonius Blacksmith" and "Euryanthe".</span>
