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Meanings of pedal point in English
Sustained tone, typically in the bass, during which at least one foreign, i.e., dissonant harmony is sounded in the other parts.
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Examples for "pedal"
Examples for "pedal"
1
Right now I'm removing the right side break pedal and foot peg.
2
The problems could occur when the pedal mechanism becomes worn, it said.
3
Do you have to pedal all the way into town, I ask.
4
Utah kept pressing on the gas pedal well into the second quarter.
5
We're not just talking about how far you push the gas pedal.
1
The deep pedal -tones of a church organ often induce sympathetic resonance that may be felt beneath the feet of the listener.
1
Yet, through it all, like a throbbing pedal note, ran his need of this girl.
2
Suddenly the heavy vibration of a single pedal note burst from the organ upon the breathing silence, long drawn out, rich, voluminous, and imposing.
3
A mournful wind blew through the trees, and sounded in the chimney like the pedal notes of an organ.
4
The huge moors, glimmering pale and unreal beneath their snow, ran past them into the sky-silent forms corresponding to who knows what pedal notes?
1
As I stated the structure and function of an organ point to its possible maladies.
2
I actually put it on my desk and gently, deliberately accompanied you through the thickets of the organ point.
3
Our visual organs point out to us matter with different essences, forming a variety of combinations, endowed with various properties that discriminate them.
Usage of pedal point in English
1
Placed at the end of a sentence, the " pedal point" signifies a through that dissolves into a suggestive silence.
2
Counting from the double bar, the Elaboration lasts, including the pedal point upon the dominant which prepares for bringing back the Principal, sixty-one measures.