Halloween Favorites, Book 4

Catherine Rollin

Chord tones played together that are not part of an accompaniment pattern.

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

Indications instructing the player to put special emphasis on notes.

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

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

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.

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

The same arpeggios played with both hands, where they alternate between the hands and the hands cross over one another.

Sharps, flats and naturals that do not appear in a key signature.

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.

Chord tones played one note at a time that are not part of an accompaniment pattern.

Two notes connected together smoothly where the second note is played softer and lighter.

Notes whose values are determined by a subdivision into three-note groupings instead of two or four.

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

The physical motion of crossing fingers 2, 3, 4, or 5 over the thumb; used when playing scalar passages or outside of five finger scales.

An indication instructing the player to go back to the "S" symbol, then jump to the coda when "al coda" or "to coda" is reached.

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 technique that involves one hand crossing over or under the other.

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.

A type of texture where the left hand plays the melody and the right hand plays the accompaniment for an extended period of time.