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With the sustaining pedal and the soft pedal together.
Printed below the piano staff, often at the start of a piece or section, meaning the damper (right) and soft (left, una corda) pedals together. It stays in force until a pedal change is marked — the soft pedal released, senza pedale, or new pedal marks.
It asks for a veiled, resonant sound: the damper pedal blends the harmonies while the soft pedal softens and darkens the tone. The French 2 Ped. (les deux pédales) and the Italian con due pedali say the same. It suits misty, atmospheric passages. Sustained damper pedal blurs changing harmonies, so either write the harmonic rhythm for the blur or add pedal changes.
Gurney, “I will go with my father a-ploughing”, piano, m. 1: “with both Pedals”, under the heading “Allegro”.
With both pedals is one of 1755 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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