A double pedal is two pedal tones played at the same time.
A pedal tone has the pitch of its harmonic series' fundamental tone.
The new fundamental can be played, however, as a pedal tone.
He was a master of producing pedal tones and the technique of multiphonic effects.
There were also, often in combination with lullabies, the pedal tones used to set pastoral scenes.
The choral introduction is centered around the pitch class E, prominent as a pedal tone for much of the first movement.
Nicolas ends his solo on pitch class A, which becomes the new pedal tone for the choral prayer.
It begins audaciously, suspended in time by virtue of its reiterated pedal tones.
A drone differs from a pedal tone or point in degree or quality.
Low pedal tones through much of the movement ground the music, allowing the harmonies to roam.