Definition of Glissando

1. Adverb. (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes). "This should be played glissando, please"

Category relationships: Music

2. Noun. A rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale.
Specialized synonyms: Slide, Swoop
Generic synonyms: Air, Line, Melodic Line, Melodic Phrase, Melody, Strain, Tune

Definition of Glissando

1. n. & a. A gliding effect; gliding.

Definition of Glissando

1. Noun. (music) A musical term that refers to either a continuous sliding one pitch to another (or "true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another (or "effective" glissando). ¹

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Definition of Glissando

1. [n -DOS or -DI]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glissando

gliquidone
glires
gliricidia
glirid
glirids
glisk
glisks
gliss
glissade
glissaded
glissader
glissaders
glissades
glissading
glissandi
glissando (current term)
glissandoes
glissandos
glissette
glissettes
glissonitis
glist
glisten
glistened
glistening
glisteningly
glistens
glister
glistered
glistering

Literary usage of Glissando

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Violin Playing as I Teach it by Leopold Auer (1921)
"THE Portamento OR glissando The connecting of two tones distant one from the other, whether produced on the same or on different strings, is, ..."

2. The Groundwork of the Leschetizky Method: With Forty-seven Illustrative Cuts by Malwine Brée (1902)
"In this case, however, the false pearls are fe genuine, because the former are far rounder and all es, further, that a glissando must sound smooth and ' W~ ..."

3. The Groundwork of the Leschetizky Method: Issued with His Approval by Malwine Brée, Theodore Baker (1903)
"||HE glissando is the ideal of a diatonic scale, as it sounds very swift and ... This implies, further, that a glissando must sound smooth and even. ..."

4. The Hand of the Pianist: A Systematic Method for the Attainment of a Sure by Marie Unschuld von Melasfeld, Theodor Leschetizky (1903)
"XI. glissando, Upwards the single glissando in the right hand is executed with the nail of the 3rd finger. Fig. 41. ..."

5. The Act of Touch in All Its Diversity: An Analysis and Synthesis of by Tobias Matthay (1903)
"glissando demands, that one or more" phalanges of the finger (or fingers) employed, must be left in so gently elastic a condition, as to enable that portion ..."

6. Violin Playing as I Teach it by Leopold Auer (1921)
"THE Portamento OR glissando The connecting of two tones distant one from the other, whether produced on the same or on different strings, is, ..."

7. The Groundwork of the Leschetizky Method: With Forty-seven Illustrative Cuts by Malwine Brée (1902)
"In this case, however, the false pearls are fe genuine, because the former are far rounder and all es, further, that a glissando must sound smooth and ' W~ ..."

8. The Groundwork of the Leschetizky Method: Issued with His Approval by Malwine Brée, Theodore Baker (1903)
"||HE glissando is the ideal of a diatonic scale, as it sounds very swift and ... This implies, further, that a glissando must sound smooth and even. ..."

9. The Hand of the Pianist: A Systematic Method for the Attainment of a Sure by Marie Unschuld von Melasfeld, Theodor Leschetizky (1903)
"XI. glissando, Upwards the single glissando in the right hand is executed with the nail of the 3rd finger. Fig. 41. ..."

10. The Act of Touch in All Its Diversity: An Analysis and Synthesis of by Tobias Matthay (1903)
"glissando demands, that one or more" phalanges of the finger (or fingers) employed, must be left in so gently elastic a condition, as to enable that portion ..."

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