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pedal point en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A sustained bass pitch.
   • In classical music there are, as the analytical programs tell us, first subjects and second subjects, free fantasias, recapitulations, and codas; there are fugues, with counter-subjects, strettos, and pedal points; there are passacaglias on ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente, and other ingenuities, which have, after all, stood or fallen by their prettiness as much as the simplest folk-tune. 1902 [1898], [George] Bernard Shaw, The Perfect Wagnerite […] , second edition, London: Grant Richards, page 3:

Forms

Synonyms

organ point · pedal note

Translations (4)

cmn 持續低音 /持续低音 (sustained bass pitch) · fi urkupiste (sustained bass pitch) · de Orgelpunkt (sustained bass pitch) · pl nuta pedałowa (sustained bass pitch)