Margot Vesel

Sue Ruby (Editor)

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses broken chords in varying note configurations, with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

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.

An ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes, either a semitone or whole tone apart.

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

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