Florence Price: Rediscovered Gems for Piano Solo

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Arpeggios played with predominantly 8th note rhythms.

8th Note Arpeggios

A series of inverted blocked chords that are not part of an accompaniment pattern and use predominantly 8th note rhythms.

8th Note Blocked Chord Inversions

A type of accompaniment pattern that uses a persistent 8th note rhythm with broken chords, in varying note configurations.

8th Note Broken Chord Accompaniment

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

Advanced Multiple Voices in One Hand

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses major and minor triads with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

Blocked Chord Accompaniment

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

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

Extended Hand Positions

Ornamentations that are notated in a smaller size than normal notes and played slightly before them.

Grace Notes

A technique that involves one hand crossing over or under the other.

Hand Crossing

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

A technique that involves quickly shifting hands beyond an octave.

Leaps Greater Than an Octave

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.

Ledger Lines

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

Melody Between Hands

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.

Parallel Octaves with Inner Notes

An indication instructing the player to play very softly; softer than piano.

Pianissimo

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

Arpeggiated Accompaniment

Melody In Inner Voice

Chords played with four notes (including seventh chords) that usually require stretching beyond a five finger position.

Romance in D Major

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