Mosaic, Volume 3

Barbara Arens

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

Indications instructing the player to put special emphasis on notes.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Temporary displacement of established meter by the stressing of a weak beat.

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