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Topic: thoughts on using sostenuto for mozart's rondo alla turca?  (Read 3421 times)

Offline pianodude1

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thoughts on using sostenuto for mozart's rondo alla turca?
on: December 23, 2016, 05:18:52 PM
i'm playing in a competition soon and i wanted to use this piece and i was gonna use the sostenuto pedal on this piece. any thoughts?
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Offline cimirro

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Re: thoughts on using sostenuto for mozart's rondo alla turca?
Reply #1 on: December 24, 2016, 03:09:47 AM
Quote from: pianodude1 on December 23, 2016, 05:18:52 PM
i'm playing in a competition soon and i wanted to use this piece and i was gonna use the sostenuto pedal on this piece. any thoughts?

Where? and Why?
To me it sounds like someone trying to make something different without any knowledgement of the composition.
You need make very good music with your fingers, "pedal" will never be an "interpretation's start point"...
By the way, Mozart music don't need much pedals at all... unless you play a transcription...






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Re: thoughts on using sostenuto for mozart's rondo alla turca?
Reply #2 on: December 24, 2016, 11:50:31 AM
The sostenuto pedal hadn't been invented in Mozart's time.  Expect criticism from evaluators if you use it.
Besides, tonic run melodies sound smeared with sostenuto on.  Broken chord melodies can sound good with sostenuto.  I believe there is a lot of the first in Rondo Alla Turca. 
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Re: thoughts on using sostenuto for mozart's rondo alla turca?
Reply #3 on: December 24, 2016, 01:58:50 PM
Quote from: indianajo on December 24, 2016, 11:50:31 AM
Besides, tonic run melodies sound smeared with sostenuto on.  Broken chord melodies can sound good with sostenuto.  I believe there is a lot of the first in Rondo Alla Turca. 
Yes, and you can easily "hold it" with the finger... still no musical explanation at all to me...
Sostenuto is nice when you need hold a note and do something different like staccato, if not, it is just waste of time
you must remember using sostenuto will hold all notes you play at one point, not only the "bass". in this case of Mozart I think it is gong to sound very bad...
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