Max Richter Piano Works

Max Richter

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

Indications instructing the player to play gradually louder (crescendo) or softer (diminuendo).

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

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

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.

Two notes played in succession, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 3rd of any quality.

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

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

An Italian term meaning "delaying"; an indication instructing the player to decrease speed, often gradually.

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.