My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book C

Nancy and Randall Faber

Indications instructing the player to put special emphasis on notes.

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 5th of any quality.

Both hands playing at the same time in either Primary or Early Elementary level works.

Two notes played in succession, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 5th of any quality.

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

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

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.

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