Florence Price: Rediscovered Gems for Piano Solo

Florence Price

A series of notes played in both hands, one at a time while alternating with each other, using predominantly 16th note rhythms.

A series of inverted broken chords that are not part of an accompaniment pattern and use predominantly 8th note rhythms.

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

Indications instructing the player to put special emphasis on notes.

An accompaniment that uses a variety of blocked intervals with a relatively equal rate of occurrence. 

An accompaniment pattern that uses a series of broken intervals of any distance or quality.

An accompaniment pattern that mainly uses the root, 5th, and octave, in varying order, and usually with steady rhythms. 

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

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

When one hand plays above or below the other for an extended period of time, often used alongside Hand Crossing.

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.

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.

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.

A series of hand position expansions and contractions that are to be executed at a fast speed. 

Hand position changes, less than an octave, that are to be executed at a fast speed and in succession. 

Playing chords while simultaneously bringing out and phrasing one of the notes as a melody.