Look up: glissando

1. Glissando
   In music a glissando is a gliding effect.
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2. glissando
   [adv] - (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes) 2. [n] - a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale
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3. Glissando
   Rapid slide through pitches of a scale.
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4. Glissando
   A rapid slide through a series of consecutive tones in a scale like passage. On an E-mu Sytems Emulator III arpeggiator for example, when two notes are played with glissando on, every note in between the two notes will be played in a sequential order. Similar to portamento except that the pitch changes in semitone steps.
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5. Glissando
   A slide from one pitch to another, sounding all pitches in between
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6. Glissando
   Glis·san'do noun & adjective [ As if Italian = Fr. glissant sliding.] (Mus.) A gliding effect; gliding.
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7. glissando
   adverb (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes); `this should be played glissando, please`
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8. glissando
   noun a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale
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9. Glissando
   • (n. & a.) A gliding effect; gliding.
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10. Glissando
    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 `date=April 2010-->--> to distinguish the g...
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