Sentence examples for pedal point from inspiring English sources
noun
A sustained bass pitch.
"I know (pedal point) He said.
"I know (pedal point)" I said.
Anybody who can define pedal point for us?
Even the pedal point of a Bach cantata has a drone going through it.
A chief unifying device is a repeated bass line or sustained pedal point.
Chords reminiscent of German chorale (hymn melody harmonizations) and tremolo or pizzicato (plucked) accompaniments occur along with organlike counterpoint and pedal points (sustained notes against changing harmonies).
Several of the tracks feature clean guitar arpeggios rotating over slightly dissonant bass pedal points, and build to glowing codas of resonant sound.
Measured treads and strongly emphasised pedal points suggested an underlay of ritual grandeur; transparency in strings and woodwind brought fervent inwardness to moments of repose and contemplation.
Here, indeed, in a piece grounded in drones, pedal points and ostinatos, she conjured a small riot of color from materials of little initial promise.
Modal playing, with its endless pedal points and one-chord bass ostinatos, allowed by definition no harmonic progression or forward movement and resulted in a structural stasis that only, maybe, the greatest improvisers could overcome.
