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glissando
[ gli-sahn-doh ]
adjective
- performed with a gliding effect by sliding one or more fingers rapidly over the keys of a piano or strings of a harp.
noun
- a glissando passage.
- (in string playing) a slide.
glissando
/ ɡɪˈæԻəʊ /
noun
- a rapidly executed series of notes on the harp or piano, each note of which is discretely audible
- a portamento, esp as executed on the violin, viola, etc
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of glissando1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of glissando1
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Example Sentences
The new mix is stuffed like a Christmas turkey with harp glissandos and twinkly Christmas motifs.
His left hand hovers over the strings along the neck, a cylindrical tube held between his thumb and middle finger drawing the metallic tones into a smooth glissando when it touches steel.
Still, neither Nézet-Séguin nor the Philadelphia Orchestra are quite fluent in jazz, even given the principal clarinetist Ricardo Morales’s luxuriously, rapturously gooey upward glissando in the famous wail that opens “Rhapsody.”
Trombone glissandos and trumpet blares were downright polite.
The earlier glissandi turn downward for a descent.
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