Halloween Favorites, Book 2

Anne Shannon Demarest

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

A type of articulation indicating the player to play short and light; notes not held for their full value.

Simple five-note scales whose notes fit within a comfortable hand shape; applied when more than one such scale appears in a piece.

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

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

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

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

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

Silence that equals the length of one quarter note.

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.

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

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 one note at a time that are not part of an accompaniment pattern.

The physical motion of crossing fingers 2, 3, 4, or 5 over the thumb; used when playing scalar passages or outside of five finger scales.

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

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

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

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 3rd intervals that are played in one hand, and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion.

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