Piano Adventures Level 1 Christmas Book

Nancy and Randall Faber

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

A simple scale that contains the first five notes of the C Major scale.

An indication instructing the player to play loudly.

A simple melody line shared by both the right hand and the left hand.

A hand position where either the right-hand or left-thumbs play middle C or where both thumbs share middle C.

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.

Symbols indicating that two notes are to be played as one with the value equal to their sum.

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

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

Half notes whose lengths are increased by half; equal to three quarter notes.

A symbol indicating that a section should be repeated.