glissando
adjective
performed with a gliding effect by sliding one or more fingers rapidly over the keys of a piano or strings of a harp.
glissandi
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pluralof glissando.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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That’s reflected, Nally said, in the music, which has an “out-of-focusness” that comes from Gordon’s taste for glissandi and love of canons.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
The new concerto is a work of considerable beauty, with delicate, feathery glissandi in the two harps, a bewitching double cadenza, and intricate rhythmic patterns.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
Playing the jazz standard “Stella by Starlight,” his quick single-note lines blended together like piano glissandi — meanwhile, Brown’s piano solo took the percussive tack.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2018
Coates' Fourth Symphony, for instance, refashions Dido's Lament from Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" into uncanny glissandi and strange harmonies in which lamentation becomes a ritual of memory as an act of distortion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2014
The piano in it is put to various uses, with a fill of glissandi matching the diabolic mood.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
