Mosaic, Volume 3

Jaap Cramer

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

An Italian term meaning "in time"; an indication instructing the player to return to the original tempo after a deviation.

An Italian term meaning "hastening"; an indication instructing the player to increase the speed gradually.

Indications instructing the player to put special emphasis on notes.

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

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

An indication instructing the player to play very loudly; louder than forte.

A type of texture where one or both hands play more than one voice at a time with large intervals, many hand positions, and complex rhythms.

Additional lines added above or below the staff in order to place very high or very low notes that wouldn't normally fit on the staff.

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

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

A series of any amount or quality of blocked 4th intervals that are played in one hand, and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion.

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

Indications instructing the player to play with sudden emphasis.

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.

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

Notes whose values are determined by a subdivision into three-note groupings instead of two or four.