Yeah, I know what was meant, but the first thing your faculty members might say is, "It's spelled sostenuto." :-o br 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 To: caut at ptg.org 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 On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:39 PM, < 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100913/04340edb/attachment.htm>
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