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glissando
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glissando
adj.
of a gliding effect created by sliding one's fingers over the keys of a piano or strings of a harp (Music)
n.
gliding effect created by sliding one's fingers over the keys of a piano or strings of a harp (Music)
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Glissando
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. 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).
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glissando
Noun
1. a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale
(hypernym) tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase
(hyponym) swoop, slide
Adverb
1. (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes); "this should be played glissando, please"
(classification) music
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Glissando (das)
n.
glissando, gliding effect created by sliding one's fingers over the keys of a piano or strings of a harp (Music)
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glissando
nm.
glissando, gliding effect created by sliding one's fingers over the keys of a piano or strings of a harp (Music)
