sustaining pedal

Understandably, he used the sustaining pedal more heavily here than in the other works.

He liked to create blurred effects by using the sustaining pedal a lot.

The sustaining pedal, however lightly applied, further clutters things up.

The last echoes of music were silenced when she took her foot off the sustaining pedal.

He changed dynamics and timbre by controlling the sustaining pedal.

The solution, of course, is the sustaining pedal.

The effect of the sustaining pedal must always be most carefully taken into consideration when transcribing piano music.

When the music grew fast or complex, he tended to rush and to overuse the sustaining pedal.

Debussy wrote piano scores impossible for two hands alone to re-create without using the sustaining pedal in specific ways.

Rubato was employed sparingly and the sustaining pedal was never down for long.

Overall, he played with clarity, elegance and rhythmic crispness, using the sustaining pedal sparingly.

The players must share a bench, decide who takes charge of the sustaining pedal and negotiate the placement of elbows.

The sustaining pedal, the right pedal on the modern piano, has been called "the soul of the piano".

I particularly liked the way they're unafraid to use the sustaining pedal in its Minuet second movement, giving it charm as well as dignity.

Mr. Petrucciani had to be carried onto the stage, and he used a special attachment to work the sustaining pedal of the piano.

Forget gradual softs to louds; forget sustaining pedals and rainbows of sound.

Mr. Orkis will appear with a cast on his right foot and work the sustaining pedal with his left.

With liberal use of the sustaining pedal, Ms. Grimaud built up stormy clouds of sound in this formidable performance.

A recurrent feature of the pieces was an overlaying or stratification of sonorities, achieved by subtle use of the sustaining pedal.

A sustain pedal or sustaining pedal (also called damper pedal) is the most commonly used pedal in a modern piano.

There was the usual sustaining pedal, an action shift, a celeste, and a bassoon pedal (which put leather against the strings to make them buzz).

But in the fantasy part of the former work his phrasing, coloring and extended use of the sustaining pedal combined to create imposing gestures of brittle-resonant sound.

Mr. Nowick plucks at the keys as if on the strings themselves, using the sustaining pedal to give the notes full value, freeing his hands to conjure spirits.

(On two of the tracks, Mr. Lacy plays his instrument into a piano with his foot on the sustaining pedal, producing a richly baleful echo.)

Meanwhile, percussion instruments patter with other repeated figures and the rest of the orchestra supports held tones in an effect Feldman likened to that of a piano's sustaining pedal.