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(Musically) a rapid series of ascending or descending notes
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glissando
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In music , a glissando (plural: glissandi , abbreviated gliss. ) is a glide 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 continuous portamento . Some ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1873, Italianized form of French glissant , present participle of glisser (see glissade ).
Usage examples of glissando.
He had to substitute an arpeggiated chord for the triad, then make do with just the top note of the double glissando.
Calabria wheedling, remonstrating, cajoling and patronizing the new master by turns, now for his misguided notions of fairness in dealing with the striking miners, now for the uses of influence in getting ahead, breaking off for a highly theatrical interlude of mugging and arson and here came the playful glissando again as new comic possibilities emerged in the parade of petty thieves, rumpots, fugitives from wives and creditors and a brace of Chippewa Indians being cursorily questioned, pummeled, browbeaten, paid and fleeced as recruits for the Union army by the mine manager in his time away from raising stores of vermifuges, decorative sabres, trusses and mule feed cut with sand in the patriotic cause.
He had to substitute an arpeggiated chord for the triad, then make do with just the top note of the double glissando.
On the last verse he broke into a tremolo that soared above the music in a descant, embellished it with sly glissandos, rests and ritardandos, climbed ambitiously towards the highest and thinnest pitch of the instrument, and then fell back deliciously upon the sonorous middle range of the third and second strings.
Ivanello, head bent so that his chestnut curls glinted in the firelight, smiled and played glissandos on his lute.
The fourth, a wooden slidehorn, bleated, honked and produced wonderful squealing glissandos as well.