pedal point

A drone differs from a pedal point in degree or quality.

But they can also evoke organs and mournful pedal points.

At first the ensemble is played against a jumbled pedal point of three popular television programs tuned in on stage.

Fugues often conclude with figures written over a bass pedal point.

Heavy metal songs often make extensive use of pedal point as a harmonic basis.

Throughout most of the song, the bass line remains on E as a pedal point, creating a drone.

Many of them have a constantly running cantus firmus or pedal point.

In a fish curve, the pedal point is at the focus for the special case of the eccentricity .

The collection also includes a Point d'orgue, a piece based on a long pedal point.

This can be useful for musical passages with pedal points and other otherwise tricky or impossible situations.

Pedal points "have a strong tonal effect, 'pulling' the harmony back to its root."

Pedal points are usually on either the tonic or the dominant (fifth note of the scale) tones.

Furthermore, no other Baroque composer used pedal point with such consistency in toccatas.

A rumbling pedal point and the mournful clarinet floating above set the tone.

Pedal points are somewhat problematic on the harpsichord or piano, which have only a limited sustain capability.

Throughout the third movement Mozart "makes use of a pedal point in the bass, thus giving the music an entrancing rustic effect."

The sixteenth-note figure that spreads throughout the work is introduced in measure 1 over a tonic pedal point.

Let D be the pedal point of the altitude on AB.

The first verse's baritonal pedal point is reversed at the end, with sustained tones in the women's voices.

The ventilation fans hummed in a drone above them, a muffled pedal point to Jenny's story.

Placed at the end of a sentence, the "pedal point" signifies a through that dissolves into a suggestive silence.

Megadeth's song "Hangar 18" in particular makes use of pedal point throughout the track until its ending solo sections.

The ascending scales above the pedal point at the close have been interpreted as departing angels or the elevation of the soul.

The piece moves in series of short scenes, each with its own repeated figures: trills, tremolos, racing scales, pedal points.

In the bass aria, instrumentation, triplets and extended pedal points are reminiscent of the opening chorus.