una corda
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of una corda
1840–50; < Italian: literally, one string, since depressing the soft pedal shifts the hammers so as to strike only two (originally one) of the strings provided for each note
Example Sentences
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Steibert called the una corda the celeste, which is more appropriate to it than Adam's application of this name to the harp-stop, by which the latter has gone ever since.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
Stein appears to have made use of the "una corda" shift.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
The closing measures, una corda and dolcissimo, afford a reminiscence of the haunting appeal of the chief melody.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
The soft pedal is indicated by "una corda."
From On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music by Saint-Saëns, Camille
Pater, Walter, remark on Romanticism, 161. pavane, 75; example from Ravel, 79. pedals of the pianoforte, the damper and the una corda, 192-195.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
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