Becoming: Suite for Solo Piano in Seven Movements

Amy Stephens

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.

Chord tones played together that are not part of an accompaniment pattern.

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

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.

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

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

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

Quarter notes whose lengths are increased by half; equal to three 8th notes.

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

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

An accompaniment pattern where the hand regularly moves distances greater than an octave to play a series of blocked chords.

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