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pedal

A sustained note in a polyphonic composition, generally but not always in the bass. It often occurs at the climax of a fugue, above which the harmony changes in order to create tension.

See also pedals.



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There was a great deal more clapping when she finished, and when this was over, as an encore, she gave a piece which imitated the sea; there were little trills to represent the lapping waves and thundering chords, with the loud pedal down, to suggest a storm.
he cried, letting down the pedal of the washing basin in which he had been sousing his healthy red neck.
What I did was to turn in the opposite direction to the other gate, where we might so easily have been cut off, and to pedal for my life--up-hill!
 
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