glissando
performed with a gliding effect by sliding one or more fingers rapidly over the keys of a piano or strings of a harp.
a glissando passage.
(in string playing) a slide.
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How to use glissando in a sentence
Her performance in A Star Is Born was a kind of glissando between skill sets.
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Violin Mastery | Frederick H. MartensVarious effects can be obtained on the harp: by harmonics, by damping, by guitar tones, by the glissando.
Will you describe the best method of holding the hand when playing glissando?
Piano Playing | Josef HofmannThe fact that the tone is passed over glissando eliminates it from the scale.
The Tinguian | Fay-Cooper Cole
In the second measure there is an almost inaudible tone at the end of the glissando.
The Tinguian | Fay-Cooper Cole
British Dictionary definitions for glissando
/ (ɡlɪˈsændəʊ) /
a rapidly executed series of notes on the harp or piano, each note of which is discretely audible
a portamento, esp as executed on the violin, viola, etc
Origin of glissando
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