When Dusk Falls by Florence Price - Piano Music Database

8th Notes

Rhythm

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

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Blocked Chord Accompaniment

Accompaniment Patterns

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

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Chord Voicing

Chords

Playing chords while simultaneously bringing out and phrasing one of the notes as a melody.

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Dominant Seventh Chords

Chords

Chords comprised of the root, major 3rd, perfect 5th, and minor 7th. Sometimes they are found in close position with only three notes.

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Extended Hand Positions

Hand and Finger Techniques

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

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Four Note Chords

Chords

Chords played with four notes (including seventh chords) that usually require stretching beyond a five finger position.

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Imitation

Texture

A type of texture where one hand plays a series of notes that are mimicked in the other hand.

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Intermediate Two Voices in One Hand

Texture

A type of texture where one or both hands play more than one voice at a time with large intervals, many hand positions, and complex rhythms.

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Large Hand Stretches

Hand and Finger Techniques

Intervals and chords played in one hand that require significant stretching between at least two notes and where the outer intervals reach further than an octave.

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Ledger Lines

Notes and Notation

Additional lines added above or below the staff in order to place very high or very low notes that wouldn't normally fit on the staff.

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Rolled Chords

Chords

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

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Suspensions

Chords

Notes that are held while the harmony changes, often creating dissonance or tension.

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When Dusk Falls

Florence Price

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8th Notes

Blocked Chord Accompaniment

Chord Voicing

Dominant Seventh Chords

Extended Hand Positions

Four Note Chords

Imitation

Intermediate Two Voices in One Hand

Large Hand Stretches

Ledger Lines

Rolled Chords

Suspensions

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