Florence Price: Rediscovered Gems for Piano Solo

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

8th Notes

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

Blocked Chord Accompaniment

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

Chord Voicing

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

Dominant Seventh Chords

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

Extended Hand Positions

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

Imitation

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.

Intermediate Two Voices in One Hand

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.

Ledger Lines

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

Rolled Chords

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

Suspensions

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

Four Note Chords

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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