In Recital Ready, Set, Play! Halloween Songs

Timothy Brown

Simple intervals that introduce students to 2nds and use two adjacent white keys.

Simple intervals that introduce students to 3rds and use two white keys with one white key in between; skipping over one white key.

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

An indication instructing the player to play loudly.

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

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

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 2nd of any quality.

A type of primary-level notation where the pitch names are placed inside the noteheads; often used in combination with off-staff notation.

A type of notation that doesn't use staff lines; sometimes called "floating notes".

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

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

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