Venetianisches Gondellied

May Flowers Op. 61

Theodor Oesten

Arpeggios played with predominantly 8th note rhythms.

8th Note Arpeggios

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

A Tempo

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 3rd of any quality.

Blocked 3rds

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

Blocked Chord Accompaniment

A time signature where the fundamental beat is subdivided in groupings of three instead of two.

Compound Time Signature

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

Crescendo and Diminuendo

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

Fermatas

An indication instructing the player to play loudly.

Forte

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

Legato

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

Pianissimo

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

Ritardando

An accompaniment that uses a variety of blocked intervals with a relatively equal rate of occurrence. 

Blocked Intervals Accompaniment

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses broken chords in varying note configurations, with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

Broken Chord Accompaniment

Chords with alternate ordering of their tones where the root is placed either in the middle or at the top of the chord.

Chord Inversions

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.

Shifting Hand Positions

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses repeating blocked 5ths in a single position with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

Blocked 5ths Accompaniment

A four note chord consisting of a triad and a note that is a seventh (of any quality) above the root.

Seventh Chords

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.

Parallel 3rds

Changing from one finger to another on the different notes of a series of repeated notes.

Finger Swap

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.

Crossing Over Thumb

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

Extended Hand Positions

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

Piano

A sign that tells the player to play gradually louder.

Crescendo

A sign that tells the player to play gradually softer.

Diminuendo

An indication instructing the player to play extremely softly; softer than pianissimo.

Pianississimo

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

Quarter Notes

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

Venetian Boat Song Op. 61, No. 11

Theodor Oesten

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