Trois Morceaux caractéristiques Op. 28

Amy Beach

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

A type of technically challenging and musically complex texture where one or both hands play several voices simultaneously.

Ornamentations that are notated in a smaller size than normal notes and played slightly before them.

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

A series of hand position expansions and contractions that are to be executed at a fast speed. 

8th notes whose lengths are increased by half; equal to three 16th notes.

Notes whose lengths are equal to one-sixteenth the value of a whole note or one quarter of a quarter note.

A technique that involves quickly shifting hands beyond an octave.

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses major and minor triads with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

Chords with alternate ordering of their tones where the root is placed either in the middle or at the top of the chord.

A four note chord consisting of a triad and a note that is a seventh (of any quality) above the root.

A type of accompaniment pattern that uses a persistent 16th note rhythm with broken chords, in varying note configurations.

More than key signature used in a single piece or movement.

The same chord played multiple times in succession. 