Look up: glissando


  1. Glissando
    In music a glissando is a gliding effect.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/VG.HTM

  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
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=glissando

  3. Glissando
    Rapid slide through pitches of a scale.
    Found op http://www.cbso.co.uk/?page=concerts/glossary.html

  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 chan...
    Found op http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/music%20tech%20glossary/Music%20Tech%20Gl

  5. Glissando
    A slide from one pitch to another, sounding all pitches in between
    Found op http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange/projects/glossary/glossary.h

  6. Glissando
    Glis·san'do noun & adjective [ As if Italian = Fr. glissant sliding.] (Mus.) A gliding effect; gliding.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/33

  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 portamento. Some colloquial equivalents are slide, sweep (referri...
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  11. Glissando
    Sliding between two notes.
    Found op http://www.classicalworks.com/html/glossary.html

  12. glissando
    1) Air 2) Dramatic piano passage 3) Line 4) Melodic line 5) Melodic phrase 6) Melody 7) Musical flourish 8) Pianist's finger-sliding passage 9) Strain 10) Tune
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/glissando/1

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