Sostenuto
Sostenuto ( ital. "Held" for abbreviated "as sost. " Or " sosten. ") Referred to in the music , a performance instruction . The tones should be held longer and fade away, usually with a simultaneous delay in tempo.
use
Often the playing instruction Sostenuto is used as an addition to a tempo designation or as a sentence heading .
For example, a piece with the performance instructions Adagio Sostenuto should be played a little wider than an Adagio , as well as in legato . In addition, the notes are given more weight and the phrasing is longer.
Piano pedal
The middle pedal of a piano in the design of a blade is often according to its function as a sostenuto referred pedal.
This pedal, in contrast to the right pedal, which lifts all the dampers, only keeps the dampers of those notes still raised that are currently being played when the sostenuto pedal is pressed. The other, possibly following notes and their dampers are not affected by this. The special effect of the sostenuto pedal is that the note or chord played at the moment the pedal is pressed can reverberate into the other notes.
The French piano maker Jean Louis Boisselot in Marseille presented his invention of the sostenuto pedal at an exhibition in 1844. In the USA, Albert Steinway received a patent on a slightly modified sostenuto from the New York Patent Office on June 1, 1875.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Willibald Gurlitt, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (Ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon. Volume 3: factual part. 12., completely reworked. Edition. Schott, Mainz 1967.
- ^ Roy Kehl, David Kirkland: The Official Guide to Steinway Pianos. 1st edition. Amadeus Press, Hal Leonard, Milwaukee 2011, ISBN 978-1-57467-198-8 , p. 107.