In Recital with Christmas Favorites, Book 2

Kevin Costley

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses broken 5th intervals with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

A simple scale that contains the first five notes of the G Major scale.

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.

Simple five-note scales whose notes fit within a comfortable hand shape; applied when more than one such scale appears in a piece.

A sign placed in front of a note that raises its pitch by a half step.

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

Symbols that indicate playing a note or range of notes one octave higher than notated.

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 6th of any quality.

A type of articulation indicating the player to play smoothly and seamlessly, with the notes slightly overlapped.

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

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

An indication instructing the player to play moderately soft; between mezzo forte and piano.

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

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

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.

Silence that equals the length of one quarter note.

Silence that equals the length of one whole note or an entire measure in 4/4 or 3/4.

Silence that equals the length of one half note.

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

Half notes whose lengths are increased by half; equal to three quarter notes.

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