Premier Piano Course, Lesson 2B

Dennis Alexander

Indications instructing the player to put special emphasis on notes.

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 3rd of any quality.

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 4th of any quality.

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 5th of any quality.

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 6th of any quality.

Chord tones played together that are not part of an accompaniment pattern.

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

Indications placed above or below notes instructing the player to hold those notes longer than their original notated length.

An indication instructing the player to play very loudly; louder than forte.

Notes whose lengths are equal to one half the value of a whole note.

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.

Notes whose lengths are equal to one-fourth the value of a whole note.

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.

A type of articulation indicating the player to play short and light; notes not held for their full value.

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.