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In Recital with Popular Christmas Music, Book 1

An indication instructing the player to go back to the beginning of a piece, then jump to the coda when "al coda" or "to coda" is reached.

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

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

A simple melody line shared by both the right hand and the left hand.

A simple five-finger hand position where the thumbs rest on adjacent notes.

An indication instructing the player to play loudly.

A type of accompaniment pattern where only one note is played at a time, usually within a single five finger scale and with simple 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.