10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALF-PEDALLING»
Discover the use of
half-pedalling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
half-pedalling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A History of Pianoforte
Pedalling
Two of these have been called 'half pedalling' in some of the literature relating to
pedalling, but they are in fact different. In the first of these the pedal is released
and then depressed again very quickly in order to damp some of the sound of the
...
2
Musical interpretation, its laws and principles, and their ...
(Illustrated) Sometimes, however, it happens that this “half-damping” _IlaK-dflmr' (
or rather, “half-pedalling”) effect is actually required. mg emm' It is required
somewhat frequently, not only in modern music, but also in the Older masters.
However, what if a pianist's touch plays with subtle half-tints, half-pedalling, and
all sorts of voicings within parts and chords, responding to the inner balance
points of the action, and sometimes using a Bebung touch that operates on ...
Richard Langham Smith, 1997
This kind of pedalling has often been faultin described as “half-pedalling," which
would mean, either an insufi'icient raising of the dampers for them to leave the
strings, or else, an insufficient rising of the Pedal, insufiicient to allow the
dampers ...
Everyone in the boat could see him half-pedalling, half dragging his feet. Come
on, man, come on. Their collective effort of will seemed to work. He managed a
spurt of a few more yards. One of the Bosnians yelled out encouragement.
6
The Cambridge Companion to Debussy
It includes exercises for obtaining control in quiet playing, for half-pedalling,
bringing out different notes in large chords, and achieving a caressing touch by
dropping and sliding the hand with outstretched fingers. For quiet chords he ...
7
Relaxation studies in the muscular discriminations required ...
132 ON HALF-PEDALLING AND HALF-DAMPING ADDITIONAL NOTE ON HALF
-PEDALLING AND HALF-DAMPING. Reference has been made, on page 129, to
the many possibilities offered by allowing the Pedal to remain up too short a ...
8
Stravinsky: A Creative Spring : Russia and France, 1882-1934
But the argument had been defused by Rubinstein demonstrating certain effects
of half-pedalling in Petrushka, and Stravinsky had at once offered to make the
transcription. Now the pianist had tumed up in southwest France and the promise
...
9
The piano: its story from zither to grand
Half-pedalling comprises raising the pedal rapidly and quickly depressing it
again, the dampers touching the strings only briefly and lightly damping the
weaker treble strings while merely reduring the volume of the bass strings. Half-
pedalling ...
10
The Percy Grainger companion
He pioneered the use of such effects as half-pedalling : A very striking effect of
diminuendo, for instance, can be produced by what I call 'half- pedalling.' The
problem is to melt from forte to pianissimo through the use of the pedal.
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALF-PEDALLING»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
half-pedalling is used in the context of the following news items.
Nord Piano 2 HA88, with Free Stand, Stool, Headphone and Bag
The included Nord Triple Pedal offers Soft and Sostenuto pedals, and a Dynamic Sustain pedal that allows the use of half-pedalling and "release and catch" ... «Gear4music.com, Mar 11»
