The Big Digital Pre-Reading Christmas Book

Carol Matz

A technique that involves only one hand playing at a time throughout most or all of a piece.

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

The physical motion of crossing fingers 2, 3, 4, or 5 over the thumb; used when playing scalar passages or outside of five finger scales.

A simple melody line shared by both the right hand and the left hand.

Vertical lines on the staff that separate notated music into measures.

A symbol indicating that a section should be repeated.

An indication instructing the player to play moderately soft; between mezzo forte and piano.

An indication instructing the player to play loudly.

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

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

Half notes whose lengths are increased by half; equal to three quarter notes.

A type of notation that doesn't use staff lines; sometimes called "floating notes".

A type of primary-level notation where the pitch names are placed inside the noteheads; often used in combination with off-staff notation.

Simple intervals that introduce students to 2nds and use two adjacent white keys.

Simple intervals that introduce students to 3rds and use two white keys with one white key in between; skipping over one white key.