L'allee des cypres

One-Hit Wonders by Wonder Women

Annette Dieudonné 

Sue Ruby (Editor)

great prep for Debussy's prelude, The Sunken Cathedral. Part of "12 Images in Short Preludes"

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

Blocked Octaves

Playing chords while simultaneously bringing out and phrasing one of the notes as a melody.

Chord Voicing

More than one clef used in a staff in a single piece or movement.

Clef Changes

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

Parallel Octaves

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

Blocked Chords

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

Chord Inversions

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

Dotted Quarter Notes

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

8th Notes

A series of blocked octaves that are played one hand at a time and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion using predominantly 8th note rhythms.

Cypress Alley

Annette Dieudonné , Sue Ruby (Editor)

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