Definition of glissando in English:

glissando

nounPlural glissandi, Plural glissandos ɡlɪˈsandəʊɡləˈsɑndoʊ

Music

A continuous slide upwards or downwards between two notes.
Example sentencesExamples
- The initial ‘Meditation’ is very troubled, with hectic glissandos and fitful ostinatos.
- Within these prohibitive technical limitations, the performer is asked to make rapid scalic runs and, in one place, semiquaver leaps, and the piece ends with a double glissando.
- It has main melody lines which alternate in each year at such a speed that they become one with the whole like a glissando despite being discrete notes.
- The vast array of techniques explored in the 20th century, the lead often taken by jazz musicians, included a wide variety of glissandos, multiphonics, microtones, expressive attacks, and mutes.
- But from the opening, mysterious, string glissandi, the orchestra seemed to miss the haunting atmospherics of Britten's score.

Origin

Italian, from French glissant, present participle of glisser 'to slip, slide'.

Rhymes

accelerando, bandeau, Brando, Orlando

Definition of glissando in US English:

glissando

nounɡləˈsɑndoʊɡləˈsändō

Music

A continuous slide upward or downward between two notes.
Example sentencesExamples
- The vast array of techniques explored in the 20th century, the lead often taken by jazz musicians, included a wide variety of glissandos, multiphonics, microtones, expressive attacks, and mutes.
- The initial ‘Meditation’ is very troubled, with hectic glissandos and fitful ostinatos.
- It has main melody lines which alternate in each year at such a speed that they become one with the whole like a glissando despite being discrete notes.
- Within these prohibitive technical limitations, the performer is asked to make rapid scalic runs and, in one place, semiquaver leaps, and the piece ends with a double glissando.
- But from the opening, mysterious, string glissandi, the orchestra seemed to miss the haunting atmospherics of Britten's score.

Origin

Italian, from French glissant, present participle of glisser ‘to slip, slide’.

单词	glissando
释义	Definition of glissando in English: glissando nounPlural glissandi, Plural glissandos ɡlɪˈsandəʊɡləˈsɑndoʊ Music A continuous slide upwards or downwards between two notes. Example sentencesExamples The initial ‘Meditation’ is very troubled, with hectic glissandos and fitful ostinatos. Within these prohibitive technical limitations, the performer is asked to make rapid scalic runs and, in one place, semiquaver leaps, and the piece ends with a double glissando. It has main melody lines which alternate in each year at such a speed that they become one with the whole like a glissando despite being discrete notes. The vast array of techniques explored in the 20th century, the lead often taken by jazz musicians, included a wide variety of glissandos, multiphonics, microtones, expressive attacks, and mutes. But from the opening, mysterious, string glissandi, the orchestra seemed to miss the haunting atmospherics of Britten's score. Origin Italian, from French glissant, present participle of glisser 'to slip, slide'. Rhymes accelerando, bandeau, Brando, Orlando Definition of glissando in US English: glissando nounɡləˈsɑndoʊɡləˈsändō Music A continuous slide upward or downward between two notes. Example sentencesExamples The vast array of techniques explored in the 20th century, the lead often taken by jazz musicians, included a wide variety of glissandos, multiphonics, microtones, expressive attacks, and mutes. The initial ‘Meditation’ is very troubled, with hectic glissandos and fitful ostinatos. It has main melody lines which alternate in each year at such a speed that they become one with the whole like a glissando despite being discrete notes. Within these prohibitive technical limitations, the performer is asked to make rapid scalic runs and, in one place, semiquaver leaps, and the piece ends with a double glissando. But from the opening, mysterious, string glissandi, the orchestra seemed to miss the haunting atmospherics of Britten's score. Origin Italian, from French glissant, present participle of glisser ‘to slip, slide’.
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