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Passages with constant step-wise motion in both hands simultaneously using predominantly 16th note rhythms.

16th Note Double Scale Passages

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

Advanced Multiple Voices in One Hand

Arpeggios of any speed or range played simultaneously in both hands.

Double Arpeggios

A series of parallel octaves played simultaneously in both hands.

Double Octaves

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

Grace Notes

A type of texture where one hand plays a series of notes that are mimicked in the other hand.

Imitation

A series of any amount or quality of blocked 6th intervals that are played in one hand, and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion.

Parallel 6ths

A trembling effect that is achieved by playing rapidly repeating notes in succession. 

Tremolo

A series of any amount or quality of blocked 3rd intervals that are played in one hand and move up or down in primarily 16th note rhythms.

16th Note Parallel 3rds

A series of any amount or quality of blocked 6th intervals that are played in one hand and move up or down in primarily 16th note rhythms.

16th Note Parallel 6ths

A series of blocked octaves that are played in one hand and move up or down in primarily 16th note rhythms.

16th Note Parallel Octaves

Arpeggios played simultaneously in both hands using predominantly 32nd note rhythms.

32nd Note Double Arpeggios

Arpeggios played with predominantly 16th note rhythms.

16th Note Arpeggios

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

Pianississimo

More than one tempo indication used in a single piece or movement.

Tempo Changes

A series of parallel octaves played simultaneously in both hands using predominantly triplet rhythms.

Triplet Double Octaves

A style of contrapuntal writing that uses three voices and where the musical material is built on a subject that is introduced in each voice at the beginning and recurs frequently throughout the piece.

Fantasia fugata Op. 87

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