Glissando
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Glissando is a noun meaning (music) To play with a glissando or sliding effect.
Meaning
(music) To play with a glissando or sliding effect.
More Meanings
- (music) Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).
- A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.
Example Sentences
After another alternation of the two elements, there is a more playful episode, in which flute and bassoon take up the first element, with swooping glissando on the ondes Martenot.
Word Forms
- glissandi
- glissandos
- glissandoes
- glissandoing
- glissandoed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gliss, onglide, gracing, glift, glottal, upglide.
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