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Christmas Piano Solos – Level 4

Fred Kern

Mona Rejino

Philip Keveren

A type of accompaniment pattern where only one note is played at a time, usually within a single five finger scale and with simple rhythms.

Elementary Single Note Accompaniment

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

Blocked 3rds

Symbols indicating that two notes are to be played as one with the value equal to their sum.

Ties

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

Extended Hand Positions

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.

Shifting Hand Positions

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

Blocked 6ths

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

Clef Changes

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses repeating blocked 3rds in a single position with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

Blocked 3rds Accompaniment

More than key signature used in a single piece or movement.

Key Signature Changes

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

Sharp

A sign placed in front of a note that returns its pitch back to normal (returning to a white key).

Natural

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

Blocked Intervals Accompaniment

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.

Parallel 3rds

Chords with an alternate ordering of their tones where the root is placed on the top and the 3rd and 5th below.

First Inversion Chords

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

Octave Lower

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 7th of any quality.

Blocked 7ths

Notes whose lengths are equal to one-eighth the value of a whole note or half the value of a quarter note.

8th Notes

Silence that equals the length of one 8th note.

8th Rests

Quarter notes whose lengths are increased by half; equal to three 8th notes.

Dotted Quarter Notes

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

Dotted Half Notes

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

Staccato

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

Piano

Quarter rests whose lengths are increased by half; equal to three 8th notes, or one and a half beats.

Dotted Quarter Rest

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

Mezzo Piano

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

Legato

A passage where one hand plays legato while the other plays staccato.

Legato Versus Staccato

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

Mezzo Forte

A sign that tells the player to play gradually louder.

Crescendo

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

Flat

An indication instructing the player to play loudly.

Forte

Indications instructing the player to put special emphasis on notes.

March of the Toys

Fred Kern, Mona Rejino, Philip Keveren

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