C is for Circus, Book 1

Elizabeth W. Greenleaf

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses repeating blocked 5ths in a single position with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

A simple scale that contains the first five notes of the C Major scale.

An indication instructing the player to go back to the beginning of a piece, then jump to the coda when "al coda" or "to coda" is reached.

A type of accompaniment pattern where only one note is played at a time, usually within a single five finger scale and with simple rhythms.

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

An Italian term meaning "delaying"; an indication instructing the player to decrease speed, often gradually.

A technique that requires the player to pick up and move their hand to a new position; usually from a five finger scale to another.

Also called the damper pedal, it is the rightmost pedal on the piano and used to sustain notes by moving the dampers away from the strings.

Symbols indicating that two notes are to be played as one with the value equal to their sum.

Symbols that indicate playing a note or range of notes either two octaves higher or lower than notated.