Florence Price: Rediscovered Gems for Piano Solo

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Arpeggios played with predominantly 8th note rhythms.

8th Note Arpeggios

Passages with constant step-wise motion and mainly 8th note rhythmic values.

8th Note Scale Passages

An accompaniment pattern where the hand regularly moves distances greater than an octave to play a series of blocked chords.

Blocked Chord Accompaniment With Leaps

More than one clef used in a staff in a single piece or movement.

Clef Changes

Hand positions that require stretching beyond a five finger scale; usually to play intervals that are 6ths or greater.

Extended Hand Positions

Using a different finger on the same notes or switching the finger while holding a note.

Finger Substitutions

A technique that involves one hand crossing over or under the other.

Hand Crossing

A type of texture where one or both hands play more than one voice at a time with large intervals, many hand positions, and complex rhythms.

Intermediate Two Voices in One Hand

Intervals and chords played in one hand that require significant stretching between at least two notes and where the outer intervals reach further than an octave.

Large Hand Stretches

Additional lines added above or below the staff in order to place very high or very low notes that wouldn't normally fit on the staff.

Ledger Lines

A type texture that occurs when the contour, distance, and speed of the notes in one hand matches that of the other hand as they play together.

Parallel Motion

A series of blocked octaves that are played one hand at a time and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion.

Parallel Octaves

Hand position changes, less than an octave, that are to be executed at a fast speed and in succession. 

Rapid Shifts

Two notes connected together smoothly where the second note is played softer and lighter.

Two Note Slurs

Chords played with four notes (including seventh chords) that usually require stretching beyond a five finger position.

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