Florence Price: Rediscovered Gems for Piano Solo

Florence Price

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

16th Notes

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

Advanced Multiple Voices in One Hand

An accompaniment pattern where the hand regularly moves distances greater than an octave to play a series of blocked chords.

Blocked Chord Accompaniment With Leaps

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

Chord Voicing

A scale comprised of only semitones which uses all 12 notes.

Chromatic Scale

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

Clef Changes

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

Dotted 8th Notes

Notes that are either raised or lowered by two semitones.

Double Accidentals

An indication instructing the player to go back to the "S" symbol, then jump to the coda when "al coda" or "to coda" is reached.

D.S. al Coda

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

Grace Notes

A technique that involves one hand crossing over or under the other.

Hand Crossing

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

Key Signature Changes

Intervals and chords played in one hand that require significant stretching between at least two notes and where the outer intervals reach further than an octave.

Large Hand Stretches

A technique that involves quickly shifting hands beyond an octave.

Leaps Greater Than an Octave

A series of blocked octaves that are played one hand at a time and where additional notes of different qualities are added in between the octaves.

Parallel Octaves with Inner Notes

An accompaniment that uses a single bass note, octave, 7th, or tenth on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.

Stride Accompaniment

Notes whose values are determined by a subdivision into three-note groupings instead of two or four.

Triplets

Two notes connected together smoothly where the second note is played softer and lighter.

Two Note Slurs

Melody In Inner Voice

Chords played with four notes (including seventh chords) that usually require stretching beyond a five finger position.

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