Premier Piano Course, Lesson 1B

Dennis Alexander

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

A simple scale that contains the first five notes of the C Major scale.

An indication instructing the player to play loudly.

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

Two notes played in succession, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 2nd of any quality.

Two notes played in succession, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 3rd of any quality.

The same note that occurs several times in a row throughout a piece.

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

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.