Florence Price: Rediscovered Gems for Piano Solo

Florence Price

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.

Passages with constant step-wise motion and mainly 16th note rhythmic values.

Arpeggios played with predominantly 8th note rhythms.

A series of any amount or quality of blocked 3rd intervals that are played in one hand and move up or down in primarily 8th note rhythms.

An Italian term meaning "hastening"; an indication instructing the player to increase the speed gradually.

A type of technically challenging and musically complex texture where one or both hands play several voices simultaneously.

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

Notes that are either raised or lowered by two semitones.

An accompaniment pattern that uses primarily broken intervals greater than a 5th.

Ornamentations that are notated in a smaller size than normal notes and played slightly before them.

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

When one hand plays above or below the other for an extended period of time, often used alongside Hand Crossing.

More than key signature used in a single piece or movement.

A technique that involves quickly shifting hands beyond an octave.

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

A series of hand position expansions and contractions that are to be executed at a fast speed. 

Hand position changes, less than an octave, that are to be executed at a fast speed and in succession. 

A change from one tonal center to another, with or without an accompanying key change.

Leaps greater than an octave that are to be executed at a fast speed and in succession. 

A section of a piece, or an entire piece, where there is a continuous series of notes of equal length, usually at a rapid tempo.