Mood Moments

Clinton Pratt

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.

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

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

A technique that requires the player to pick up and move their hand to a new position; usually from a five finger scale to another.

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

Indications placed above or below notes instructing the player to hold those notes longer than their original notated length.

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

Half notes whose lengths are increased by half; equal to three quarter notes.