In Recital Ready, Set, Play! Halloween Songs

Edwin Mclean

A simple hand position where only F#, G#, and A# are played; almost always notated with off-staff notation.

Simple intervals that introduce students to 2nds and use two adjacent white keys.

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

A technique that involves only one hand playing at a time throughout most or all of a piece.

Two notes played in succession, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 2nd of any quality.

Vertical lines on the staff that separate notated music into measures.

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

The same note that occurs several times in a row throughout a piece.

A type of notation that doesn't use staff lines; sometimes called "floating notes".

An indication instructing the player to play loudly.