Mary Katherine Schober

Combines influence of Brahms with a modern popular style. Virtuosic, flashy, great recital closer.

Arpeggios played with predominantly 8th note rhythms.

8th Note Arpeggios

A series of blocked octaves that are played one hand at a time and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion using predominantly 8th note rhythms.

8th Note Parallel Octaves

8th Note Triplets

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

Accelerando

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

Accidentals

Complicated, dense, and rich harmonies involving complex chords, chord substitutions, modal mixture, upper structures, among other techniques.

Advanced Harmonies

An accompaniment pattern that uses mainly arpeggios in any configuration and with any rhythmic values.

Arpeggiated Accompaniment

Broken chords that have a minimum range of an octave and require thumb crossing.

Arpeggios

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

A Tempo

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

Blocked Octaves

Playing chords while simultaneously bringing out and phrasing one of the notes as a melody.

Chord Voicing

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

Clef Changes

Indications instructing the player to play gradually louder (crescendo) or softer (diminuendo).

Crescendo and Diminuendo

The same arpeggios played with both hands, where they alternate between the hands and the hands cross over one another.

Cross-Hand Arpeggios

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.

Large Hand Stretches

More than one time signature used in a single piece or movement.

Multiple Time Signatures

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

Octave Higher

Octaves played several times in a row, either as part of the accompaniment or melody.

Repeated Octaves

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

Ritardando

A blocked chord whose notes are played quickly in succession which gives the chord a harp-like sound.

Rolled Chords

A series of parallel octaves played simultaneously in both hands using predominantly triplet rhythms.

Triplet Double Octaves

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

Rhapsody in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1

Mary Katherine Schober

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