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The most common kind of envelope generator has four stages: attack, decay, sustain, and release (ADSR). [2] Attack is the time taken for the rise of the level from nil to peak. Decay is the time taken for the level to reduce from the attack level to the sustain level. Sustain is the level maintained until the key is released.
In piano music (notably in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata), senza sordini or senza sordina (or some variant) is sometimes used to mean keep the sustain pedal depressed, since the sustain pedal lifts the dampers off the strings, with the effect that all notes are sustained indefinitely.
A suspended chord (or sus chord) is a musical chord in which the (major or minor) third is omitted and replaced with a perfect fourth or a major second. [1] The lack of a minor or a major third in the chord creates an open sound, while the dissonance between the fourth and fifth or second and root creates tension.
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
In musical notation, tenuto (Italian, past participle of tenere, "to hold"), denoted as a horizontal bar adjacent to a note, is a direction for the performer to hold or sustain a note for its full length. [1] [full citation needed]
Pedal tone example. The repeated d in the first bar is the pedal point. [1] Play ⓘ. In music, a pedal point (also pedal note, organ point, pedal tone, or pedal) is a sustained tone, typically in the bass, during which at least one foreign (i.e. dissonant) harmony is sounded in the other parts.
The speed of music; e.g. 120 BPM (beats per minute) (Tempo) rubato: robbed: Free flowing and exempt from steady rhythm Tenuto: sustained: Holding or sustaining a single note Vivace: vivacious: Fast and lively tempo (quicker than allegro)
Play ⓘ with sustain pedal on (bottom measures) Piano pedals from left to right: soft pedal, sostenuto pedal and sustain pedal Location of pedals under the keyboard of the grand piano. A sustain pedal or sustaining pedal (also called damper pedal, loud pedal, or open pedal [1]) is the most commonly used pedal in a modern piano. It is typically ...