Music for Little Mozarts: Music Lesson Book 2

Christine H. Barden

A type of notation that uses two standard five-line staves combined together with a brace; usually indicating right hand and left hand notes.

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

A technique that involves only one hand playing at a time throughout most or all of a piece.

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

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

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

A hand position where either the right-hand or left-thumbs play middle C or where both thumbs share middle C.

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

Simple intervals that introduce students to 3rds and use two white keys with one white key in between; skipping over one white key.

Simple intervals that introduce students to 2nds and use two adjacent white keys.

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