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Advanced Multiple Voices in One Hand

Texture

A type of technically challenging and musically complex texture where one or both hands play several voices simultaneously.

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Blocked Intervals Accompaniment

Accompaniment Patterns

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

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Broken Chord Accompaniment With Leaps

Accompaniment Patterns

An accompaniment pattern where the hand regularly moves distances greater than an octave to play a series of broken chords.

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Clef Changes

Notes and Notation

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

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Extended Broken Chord Accompaniment

Accompaniment Patterns

An accompaniment pattern using broken chords that regularly extend beyond five finger patterns.

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Large Hand Stretches

Hand and Finger Techniques

Intervals and chords played in one hand that require significant stretching between at least two notes and where the outer intervals reach further than an octave.

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Left Hand Melody

Texture

A type of texture where the left hand plays the melody and the right hand plays the accompaniment for an extended period of time.

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Melody In Inner Voice

Texture

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Parallel Octaves with Inner Notes

Intervals

A series of blocked octaves that are played one hand at a time and where additional notes of different qualities are added in between the octaves.

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Rapid Leaps

Hand and Finger Techniques

Leaps greater than an octave that are to be executed at a fast speed and in succession.

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Two Note Slurs

Expression

Two notes connected together smoothly where the second note is played softer and lighter.

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