Short Story by Anna Blonsky - Piano Music Database

Accents

Expression

Indications instructing the player to put special emphasis on notes.

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Broken Octave Accompaniment

Accompaniment Patterns

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses broken octave intervals with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

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Dotted Quarter Notes

Rhythm

Quarter notes whose lengths are increased by half; equal to three 8th notes.

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Fermatas

Rhythm

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

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Left Hand Melody

Texture

A type of texture where the left hand plays the melody and the right hand plays the accompaniment for an extended period of time.

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Legato

Expression

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

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Octave Higher or Octave Lower

Notes and Notation

Symbols that indicate playing a note or range of notes either an octave higher or lower than notated.

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Ritardando

Meter

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

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Sforzando

Expression

Indications instructing the player to play with sudden emphasis.

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Simple Two Voices in One Hand

Texture

A type of texture where one or both hands play more than one voice at a time; usually briefly and with simple rhythms.

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Staccato

Expression

A type of articulation indicating the player to play short and light; notes not held for their full value.

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Sustain Pedal

Expression

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.

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Syncopation

Rhythm

Temporary displacement of established meter by the stressing of a weak beat.

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Ties

Rhythm

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

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Triplets

Rhythm

Notes whose values are determined by a subdivision into three-note groupings instead of two or four.

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Short Story

Anna Blonsky

Elements

Accents

Broken Octave Accompaniment

Dotted Quarter Notes

Fermatas

Left Hand Melody

Legato

Octave Higher or Octave Lower

Ritardando

Sforzando

Simple Two Voices in One Hand

Staccato

Sustain Pedal

Syncopation

Ties

Triplets

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