Halloween Favorites, Book 1

June C. Montgomery

A hand position where either the right-hand or left-thumbs play middle C or where both thumbs share middle C.

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

Silence that equals the length of one quarter note.

A technique that involves only one hand playing at a time throughout most or all of a piece.

Two notes played in succession, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 4th of any quality.

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

The same note that occurs several times in a row throughout a piece.

Indications instructing the player to put special emphasis on notes.

A type of articulation indicating the player to play short and light; notes not held for their full value.

A technique that requires the player to pick up and move their hand to a new position; usually from a five finger scale to another.

Chord tones played one note at a time that are not part of an accompaniment pattern.

A simple scale that contains the first five notes of the C Major scale.

An indication instructing the player to play loudly.

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