Halloween Favorites, Book 3

Dennis Alexander

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 5th of any quality.

An indication instructing the player to play loudly.

Indications instructing the player to play with sudden emphasis.

A series of any amount or quality of blocked 3rd intervals that are played in one hand, and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion.

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

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

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses repeating blocked 5ths in a single position with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

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

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

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

Additional lines added above or below the staff in order to place very high or very low notes that wouldn't normally fit on the staff.

Symbols that indicate playing a note or range of notes either an octave higher or lower than notated.

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

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.

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

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

Silence that equals the length of one 8th note.

An Italian term meaning "hastening";
an indication instructing the player to increase the speed,

often gradually.