Halloween Favorites, Book 1

Martha Mier

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

Silence that equals the length of one whole note or an entire measure in 4/4 or 3/4.

Silence that equals the length of one quarter note.

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

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

A technique that involves only one hand playing at a time throughout most or all of a piece.

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

A technique that involves one hand crossing over or under the other.

Indications instructing the player to put special emphasis on notes.

Also called the damper pedal, it is the rightmost pedal on the piano and used to sustain notes by moving the dampers away from the strings.

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

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

Sharps, flats and naturals that do not appear in a key signature.

Sometimes called upbeats or pickup notes; a note or series of notes that precede and give stress to the first downbeat of a piece.

Chord tones played one note at a time that are not part of an accompaniment pattern.

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

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