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单词 pedal note
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pedal noten.

Brit. /ˈpɛdl ˌnəʊt/, U.S. /ˈpɛd(ə)l ˌnoʊt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pedal n.1, note n.2
Etymology: < pedal n.1 + note n.2 With sense 1 compare pedal point n. at pedal n.1 Compounds 2. In sense after 2 after French note pédale (1843 in the passage translated in quot. 1856 at sense 2). Compare Spanish nota pedal (1779).
Music.
1. A long, sustained note held while movement continues in other parts of a piece; = pedal point n. at pedal n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts > sustained note
holding-note1776
point d'orgue?1779
pedal note1786
pedal point1814
pedal1854
organ point1865
sustention1883
sustain1951
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Pedal-note, a holding note, during which the harmony formed by the other parts of the composition is allowed to proceed independently.
1842 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 787 Harmony by notes not belonging to the chords may be produced by pedal notes. A pedal note (so called from its being generally played on the organ by the pedals), is a note in the bass, held on for several bars, while a series of different chords is heard along with it.
1892 G. B. Shaw Let. 21 Apr. (1965) I. 337 Her voice has become much more powerful—quite Hyde Parkian in its pedal notes.
1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor i. ii. 18 Ebenezer could be moved to shivers by..the roar of an organ's pedal-notes.
2003 Evening Standard (Nexis) 25 Sept. a52 Mundry's piece..is..built on a surface of still, quiet, sparely scored sounds—pedal notes—through which erupts and recedes a whole panoply of varied textures and colours.
2. The lowest note or fundamental of any of the harmonic series obtainable on certain wind instruments, esp. the trombone; = pedal n.1 7b.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > other scales > notes of other scales
1655
pedal note1856
1856 M. C. Clarke tr. H. Berlioz Treat. Mod. Instrumentation 153/2 All trombones..possess..three notes; which are..called pedals [Fr. pédales]... Supposing that the bass trombone possesses the first only of these pedal notes [Fr. notes pédales]..it would still be of great value for certain effects.
1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 953/2 The actual fundamental notes are not so easy to produce [on a trombone] as the harmonics above them; they are spoken of as Pedal Notes—possibly because they are considered to be useful for the holding of a ‘pedal’, in the sense in which the word is used in the terminology of harmony.., or else, as Berlioz suggests, from their resemblance to the low pedal notes of an organ.
1961 C. W. Monk in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages xi. 283 This gives E as the bottom note of the trombone's continuous scale, leaving a gap down to the less-used fundamental or ‘pedal’ notes from the first-position B′♭ downwards.
2003 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 31 Mar. 13 Subterranean trombone pedal notes added to a rich dazzle of colours allowing the imagination to fly in all directions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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