Crossword clues for glissando
glissando
- Signature sound from a trombone
- Rapid up-scale sweep, e.g
- Pianist's finger-sliding passage
- Pianist's finger-sliding
- Notable feature of the opening clarinet solo in "Rhapsody in Blue"
- Harpist's flourish
- Effect produced by playing a series of notes very rapidly
- (Musically) a rapid series of ascending or descending notes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glissando \Glis*san"do\, n. & a. [As if It. = Fr. glissant sliding.] (Mus.) A gliding effect; gliding.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1873, Italianized form of French glissant, present participle of glisser (see glissade).
Wiktionary
n. (context music English) 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).
WordNet
n. a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale
adv. (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes); "this should be played glissando, please"
[also: glissandi (pl)]
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 colloquial equivalents are slide, sweep (referring to the 'discrete glissando' effects on guitar & harp respectively), bend, smear, rip (for a loud, violent gliss to the beginning of a note), lip (in jazz terminology, when executed by changing one's embouchure on a wind instrument), or falling hail (a glissando on a harp using the back of the fingernails).
From the standpoint of musical acoustics and scientific terminology, some instruments, such as slide trombones, unfretted bowed-string instruments, guitars played with slides and, of course, slide whistles, can change the frequency of their notes continuously, while others, notably acoustic keyboard instruments, are restricted to quantized (stepped) changes in pitch. (The clavichord's Bebung is the one exception, but that is essentially ornamentation of a single pitch, not a glide.) Some instruments, such as the clarinet and saxophone, can produce a continuous pitch (frequency) change, although their characteristic design is to provide distinct pitches.
Glissando is a 1982 Romanian drama film directed by Mircea Daneliuc. The film was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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.