overpedalv.
/ˌəʊvəˈpɛdl/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈpɛd(ə)l/ Music.
1. transitive. To play (a piano piece) with excessive use of the sustaining pedal, or (more generally) of the pedals.
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1922 Times 13 Nov. 9/3 Ravel's wit cuts like a knife, and to over-pedal his ‘Jeux d'eau’ is to abandon the contest.
1987 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 24 Aug. 5 The danger of smearing or overpedaling passages in a work as popular as Tchaikovsky's First is that audiences can immediately spot the weakness.
1995 Seattle Times (Nexis) 27 Feb. e3 He must have had to learn some of the program at short notice, but this was no excuse for overpedaling arias by Handel..and Mozart.
2. intransitive. To make excessive use of a piano's pedal or pedals.
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overpedal1954
1954 Times 10 May 9/3 If..she smudged some double octaves and over-pedalled, she also conveyed much of the greatness and imaginative power of the work.
1976 Gramophone June 69/1 Berman himself often overpedals in an over-resonant studio so that bigger climaxes are just a confused noise.
2002 Amer. Record Guide (Nexis) 1 Nov. 76 Her trills and embellishments are not always clean, and she tends to overpedal.
Derivatives
ˌoverˈpedalled adj.
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overpedalled1944
1944 Times 31 Oct. 8/2 Her performance of Dukas's..Piano Sonata in E flat minor, though over-pedalled, deserved credit as a feat of memory and endurance.
1991 Gramophone Jan. 1390/2 Even more disappointing is the finale of K282, lumpish, heavily articulated and overpedalled.
ˌoverˈpedalling n.
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overpedalling1934
1934 Times 28 May 8/5 Over-pedalling in the first movement of the Schubert destroyed what ought to have been as close an imitation as is possible on the pianoforte of the exact phrasing given by Mr. Feuermann.
1990 Gramophone May 2012/2 I admit I found strange at first..her overpedalling of the birdsong in No. 5.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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