Velislava Franta

A hauntingly beautiful arrangement of Coventry Carol with mournful bell sounds.

Complicated, dense, and rich harmonies involving complex chords, chord substitutions, modal mixture, upper structures, among other techniques.

Advanced Harmonies

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 2nd of any quality.

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

An indication instructing the player to play very softly; softer than piano.

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.

A type of articulation indicating the player to play smoothly and seamlessly, with the notes slightly overlapped.

Hand positions that require stretching beyond a five finger scale; usually to play intervals that are 6ths or greater.

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

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

A sign that tells the player to play gradually softer.

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

Silence that equals the length of one quarter note.

Silence that equals the length of one whole note or an entire measure in 4/4 or 3/4.

An indication instructing the player to play extremely softly; softer than pianissimo.

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

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

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

An accompaniment that uses a variety of blocked intervals with a relatively equal rate of occurrence. 