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  2. Envelope (music) - Wikipedia

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    The General Instrument AY-3-8910 sound chip includes only a hold time parameter; the sustain level is not programmable. Another common variation in the same vein is the AHDSR (attack, hold, decay, sustain, release) envelope, in which the hold parameter controls how long the envelope stays at full volume before entering the decay phase.

  3. Sustain pedal - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    "Let ring", meaning allow the sound to continue, do not damp; used frequently in harp or guitar music, occasionally in piano or percussion. Abbreviated "lasc. suon." leap or skip A melodic interval greater than a major 2nd, as opposed to a step. Melodies which move by a leap are called "disjunct". Octave leaps are not uncommon in florid vocal ...

  6. Piano pedals - Wikipedia

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    This definition alone would make it sound as if the sostenuto pedal accomplishes the same thing as the damper, or "sustaining" pedal. The sostenuto pedal was originally called the "tone-sustaining" pedal. [10] That name would be more accurately descriptive of what the pedal accomplishes, i.e., sustainment of a single tone or group of tones.

  7. Piano - Wikipedia

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    The sustain pedal allows pianists to connect and overlay sound, and achieve expressive and colorful sonority. In the 19th century, influenced by Romantic music trends, the fortepiano underwent changes such as the use of a cast iron frame (which allowed much greater string tensions) and aliquot stringing which gave grand pianos a more powerful ...

  8. Sustain (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Sustain is a parameter of musical sound in time. Sustain may also refer to: Sustain, a 2007 album by ska punk band Buck-O-Nine; Sustain (composition) a 2018 orchestral composition by American composer Andrew Norman; Sustained (law), a ruling to disallow the question, testimony, or evidence, issued by a judge in the law of the United States of ...

  9. Vibraphone - Wikipedia

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    When the pedal is up, the bars produce a muted sound; when the pedal is down, the bars sustain for several seconds or until again muted with the pedal. The vibraphone is commonly used in jazz music, in which it often plays a featured role, and was a defining element of the sound of mid-20th-century " Tiki lounge " exotica , as popularized by ...