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glissando::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, tune |
| Has types | swoop, slide |
glissando::adverb | Spocien Dictionary
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this should be played glissando, please.
Examples of glissando
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Vocally, she slithers through her lines with the glissando of a soprano trombone.
From the time.com
Glissando is an effect in which the fretting hand slides up or down the neck.
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Both portamento and glissando describe a slide between two notes or pitches.
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String-bending for example may be used to produce a glissando or portamento.
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This is commonly called a glissando, though this use of the term is not strictly correct.
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Ditto keyboardist Dillon O'Brian, who knows exactly the right moment to add an organ glissando.
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When the slide is limited to sounding individual notes between the two pitches, it is a glissando.
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The kind of glissando you are able to produce is determined by the limitations of your instrument.
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Michele Zukovsky got a whooping appreciation from the crowd for her juicy clarinet glissando at the start.
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- (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes); "this should be played glissando, please"
- A rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale
- In music, a glissando (plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a from one pitch to another. It is an Italianized musical term derived from the French glisser, to glide. In some contexts it is distinguished from the portamento. ...
- A musical term that refers to either a continuous sliding one pitch to another (or "true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another (or "effective" glissando)
- Glissando is an ornamental effect notated by a wavy or straight line between two notes, indicating a continuous slide in pitch.
- A technique adopted by string players for difficult runs.
- Slurred smoothly in a gliding manner
- Rapid slide through pitches of a scale.
- (Italian), "slide." A rapid succession of pitches made by sliding a finger up or down a string. Indicated with a straight line between note heads. Abbr.: gliss.
