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  2. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Release pedal Tells the player to let the sustain pedal up. Variable pedal mark More accurately indicates the precise use of the sustain pedal. Initial depress and final release are indicated by the short vertical lines. The extended horizontal line tells the player to keep the sustain pedal depressed for all notes below which it appears.

  3. Sustain pedal - Wikipedia

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    An alternative (and older) notation is the use of indicating where the sustain pedal should be depressed, and an asterisk showing where it should be lifted. Occasionally there is a general direction at the start of a movement instructing that the sustain pedal be applied continuously throughout.

  4. Piano pedals - Wikipedia

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    Piano pedals from left to right: soft pedal, sostenuto pedal and sustain pedal An overview of the piano pedals, which are placed under the keyboard of the piano Piano pedals are foot-operated levers at the base of a piano that change the instrument's sound in various ways.

  5. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    On a piano, played with the soft pedal depressed Due corde: two strings: On a piano, played with the soft pedal depressed (For why both terms exist, see Piano#Pedals.) Tre corde or tutte le corde: three strings or all the strings: Cancels una corda Glissando: gliding, glossing: A sweeping glide from one pitch to another used for dramatic effect ...

  6. Piano - Wikipedia

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    Piano Grand piano Upright piano Keyboard instrument Hornbostel–Sachs classification 314.122-4-8 (Simple chordophone with keyboard sounded by hammers) Inventor(s) Bartolomeo Cristofori Developed Early 18th century Playing range The Well-Tempered Clavier, first prelude of Book I Played by Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka Problems playing this file? See media help. A piano is a keyboard instrument that ...

  7. Pedal point - Wikipedia

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    Pedal tone example. The repeated d in the first bar is the pedal point. [1] Play ⓘ. In music, a pedal point (also pedal note, organ point, pedal tone, or pedal) is a sustained tone, typically in the bass, during which at least one foreign (i.e. dissonant) harmony is sounded in the other parts.

  8. Soft pedal - Wikipedia

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    The soft pedal or una corda pedal (Italian for 'one string'), is one pedal on a piano, generally placed leftmost among the pedals. On a grand piano this pedal shifts the whole action (including the keyboard) slightly to the right, so that the hammers, which normally strike all three of the strings for a note, strike only two of them.

  9. Piano extended techniques - Wikipedia

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    whistling, singing or talking into the piano (with depressed sustain pedal) silently depressing one or more keys, allowing the corresponding strings to vibrate freely, thus creating harmonics of the struck or plucked strings. percussive use of different parts of the piano, such as the outer rim.