Variations on Balkan Themes Op.60

Amy Beach

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

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

Notes that are either raised or lowered by two semitones.

A series of any amount or quality of blocked 6th intervals that are played in one hand, and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion.

Arpeggios played one hand at a time using predominantly 32nd note rhythms.

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

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

A blocked chord whose notes are played quickly in succession which gives the chord a harp-like sound.

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 loudly.

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

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

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

More than one tempo indication used in a single piece or movement.

A symbol indicating certain notes to be played by the left hand; often abbreviated as m.s.