[CAUT] sostonuto markings

[Porritt, David]

Rachmaninoff's C# minor prelude is the only place I've ever used it in my limited study of real music.  There wasn't any marking for it in the music but it seemed to me to be the only way to sustain the C# while changing the harmonies above.

dp

David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu


From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T Williams
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 3:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [CAUT] sostonuto markings

I've put the question forth to our co-chairs of the piano dept for interpretation.  Hopefully, they will answer it shortly. I'm thinking of Clair-de Lune now with that nice long bass sustaining octave singing while one could pedal the melody instead of just pedaling right through it.  Fred, have you done this?  I tried it and one can clear it up some.

Paul

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Dennis Johnson <johnsond at stolaf.edu>

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Date:

09/13/2010 03:03 PM

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Re: [CAUT] sostonuto markings


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Wim-

I've never seen a specific marking for it and always understood it to be logical interpretation of what needs to be done.  When the music calls for sustain of a note while other things are happening and there's no way you have either enough fingers or reach, that calls for sostenuto.

d.


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:39 PM, <tnrwim at aol.com<mailto:tnrwim at aol.com>> wrote:
This is for the pianists on this list.

In the last week I had to explain to two different customers what the sostonuto pedal was for. Both are somewhat accomplished piano players, but neither had ever heard of the pedal, much less knew how to use it. After the explanation, they both asked the same question, to which I had no answer. How is it marked in the music?

I know about the ped. and *  markings, for regular pedal markings, but is there something else that would indicate when the sostonuto pedal is to be used?

Wim


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