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pedal points

pedal points is the plural of pedal point.

Meaning of pedal point

Noun

pedal point (plural pedal points)

  1. A sustained bass pitch.
    • In classical music there are, as the analytical programs tell us, first subjects and second subjects, free fantasias, recapitulations, and codas; there are fugues, with counter-subjects, strettos, and pedal points; there are passacaglias on ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente, and other...1902 [1898], [George] Bernard Shaw, The Perfect Wagnerite […] , second edition, London: Grant Richards, page 3

Questions about pedal points

What is pedal points the plural of?
Pedal points is the plural of pedal point.

Words near pedal points in the dictionary

  1. pedal keyboard
  2. pedal keyboards
  3. pedal note
  4. pedal notes
  5. pedal point
  6. pedal points
  7. pedal pub
  8. pedal pubs
  9. pedal pusher
  10. pedal pushers
  11. pedal squares

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