Piano Piano means softly. The instrument we call a piano was originally named the piano-forte, which meant it could play softly and loudly .
Fortepiano While playing or singing, make a quick change from loud to soft.
Mezzo-Piano Play moderately softly.
Aeolian Mode A medieval mode whose scale pattern is that of playing A to A on the white keys of a piano. This scale is also called the natural minor scale.
Chord shapes The diagrams often shown above the staff which give the fingering for chords on the guitar, piano, organ, and other instruments.
Concerto A concerto (from the Italian: concerto, plural concerti or, often, the anglicised form concertos) as a musical work is a composition usually in three parts or movements, in which (usually) one solo instrument (for instance, a piano or violin) is accompanied by an orchestra
Frequency the number of vibrations per second. A high note has a greater frequency than a low note. The lowest note of a piano has an approximate frequency of 30: the highest note has an approximate frequency of 4000.
Glissando sliding quickly up or down a scale when playing a piano or harp
Locrian Mode A mode whose scale pattern is that of playing B to B on the white keys of a piano. While this mode theoretically existed in medieval times, it was never used.
Pedal A pedal sign (Ped.___________|) means to press down the right pedal (sustain) on the piano.
Sonata In the Baroque, the term 'sonata' was applied to a variety of works for solo instrument such as keyboard or violin, and for groups of instruments. In the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, the term sonata underwent a change in usage, coming to mean a chamber-music genre for either a solo instrument (usually a keyboard), or a solo melody instrument with piano. Increasingly after 1800, the term applied to a form of large-scale musical argument, and it was generally used in this sense in musicology and musical analysis.
