My Lyrical Notebook

Angeline Bell

Arpeggios played with predominantly 16th note rhythms.

A type of accompaniment pattern that uses a persistent 16th note rhythm with broken chords, in varying note configurations.

Chords comprised of the root, major 3rd, perfect 5th, and minor 7th. Sometimes they are found in close position with only three notes.

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

A type of texture where one or both hands play more than one voice at a time with large intervals, many hand positions, and complex rhythms.

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.

A series of any amount or quality of blocked 5th intervals that are played in one hand, and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion.

Notes whose lengths are equal to one-sixteenth the value of a whole note or one quarter of a quarter note.

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

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

An indication instructing the player to play moderately soft; between mezzo forte and piano.

A type of articulation indicating the player to play smoothly and seamlessly, with the notes slightly overlapped.

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

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

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

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

A series of any amount or quality of blocked 4th intervals that are played in one hand, and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion.