• In music, a glissando (Italian: [ɡlisˈsando]; plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another (Play). It is an Italianized...
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  • The glissando illusion is an auditory illusion, created when a sound with a fixed pitch, such as a synthesized oboe tone, is played together with a sine...
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    Trombone (redirect from False glissando)
    can produce a true glissando, by moving the slide without interrupting the airflow or sound production. Every pitch in a glissando must have the same...
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  • An octave glissando is a glissando played on the piano by maintaining a constant distance of an octave between the thumb and finger used to execute it...
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  • Glissando is a 1982 Romanian drama film directed by Mircea Daneliuc. The film was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at...
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    glissando with gradual modulations. A section near the end of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Hymnen incorporates multiple descending Shepard tone glissandos...
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  • The glissando babbler (Pellorneum saturatum) is a species of bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae. It is found on the Indonesian islands of...
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    mano. Tip tone. 9. Tono de uñas. Fingernails tone. 10. Tono deslizado. Glissando tone. There are four basic strokes in conga drumming: Open tone (tono...
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    in a wire frame ending in a handle. Used in classic cartoons for its glissando effect, its sound is comparable to the musical saw. [The] flexatone [is...
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    This is commonly called a glissando, though this use of the term is not strictly correct. The most effective glissandos are those from low to high notes...
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  • right (e.g. tempo giusto in strict time) glissando A continuous sliding from one pitch to another (a true glissando), or an incidental scale executed while...
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    magazine, Frederic D. Schwarz posits that the famous opening clarinet glissando has become as instantly recognizable to concert audiences as the opening...
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    stereo illusions, such as the octave illusion, the scale illusion, and the glissando illusion. Studies have found a positive correlation between left-handedness...
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  • scale, or a Shepard-Risset glissando (Polansky 2003). It consists of a repeating sequence of sine waves arranged in a glissando between twelve and fifteen...
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    doodle. This is a very faint tonguing similar in sound to a valve tremolo. Glissando: Trumpeters can slide between notes by depressing the valves halfway and...
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  • In this way, the glissando differs from portamento. In contemporary classical music (especially in avant garde pieces), a glissando tends to assume the...
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    voltage-controlled synthesizers, with keyboard sensitivity allowing for vibrato, glissando, and attack control. In 1957, Harry Olson and Herbert Belar completed...
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    0 sec: battuto, 9 sec: tratto, 20 sec: ... with tremolo, 33 sec: ... with glissando, 48 sec: battuto with movement of the bow across the fingerboard...
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  • The entire band goes into a buildup, with Guy playing a back and forth glissando between two notes on his trumpet. A few seconds later, the shot cuts to...
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  • The glissando symbol proceeds from bottom left to top right for an upward glissando, or from top left to bottom right for a downward glissando. It is...
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    seventh) – 1 (unison). In jazz, it is played swung, sometimes including a glissando or grace note before the fifth note. The term "The Lick" was coined by...
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    octaves above the stopped note, although other intervals are available. Glissando (Italian for "sliding") is an effect played by sliding the finger up or...
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    a bottle) commonly used in country music or blues music, to create a glissando effect made popular in Hawaiian music at the beginning of the 20th century...
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  • banjos are still manufactured and played by those wishing to execute glissando, play quarter tones, or otherwise achieve the sound and feeling of early...
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    number of bowls can vary between approximately 14 and 28. An effective glissando is produced by sliding a triangle beater, a glockenspiel mallet, or a...
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    City Cary Glennon "The Human Trap" 1961 Route 66 Gabe Johnson "Play It Glissando" 1961 The Americans Charlie Goodwin "Half Moon Road" 1961 Outlaws Jim...
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  • musical phrase and may not necessarily require that the music be slurred. Glissando / Portamento A continuous, uninterrupted glide from one note to the next...
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    appropriately called the continuous Risset scale or Shepard-Risset glissando. A Shepard-Risset glissando Risset's rhythmic effect – a breakbeat that accelerates...
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  • accelerating beat. Problems playing this file? See media help. A Shepard–Risset glissando Problems playing this file? See media help. Binaural beats The constant...
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    kindergarten playground overlaid with electric tonalities. Kontakte followed. Glissandos bounced off the stars, which glowed like incandescent pinballs. Foucault...
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