In music, a glissando (Italian: [ɡlisˈsando]; plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another (Play). It is an Italianized...

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...

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...

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...

glissando with gradual modulations. A section near the end of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Hymnen incorporates multiple descending Shepard tone glissandos...

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...

The glissando babbler (Pellorneum saturatum) is a species of bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae. It is found on the Indonesian islands of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

voltage-controlled synthesizers, with keyboard sensitivity allowing for vibrato, glissando, and attack control. In 1957, Harry Olson and Herbert Belar completed...

stereo illusions, such as the octave illusion, the scale illusion, and the glissando illusion. Studies have found a positive correlation between left-handedness...

magazine, Frederic D. Schwarz posits that the famous opening clarinet glissando has become as instantly recognizable to concert audiences as the opening...

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...

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...

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...

In this way, the glissando differs from portamento. In contemporary classical music (especially in avant garde pieces), a glissando tends to assume the...

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...

This funky bassline includes percussive slapping, rhythmic ghost notes, and glissando effects....

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...

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...

musical phrase and may not necessarily require that the music be slurred. Glissando / Portamento A continuous, uninterrupted glide from one note to the next...

String instruments are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds. These alternative playing techniques have been used extensively since...

string lightly with another finger, can produce any note above middle C. Glissando (Italian for "sliding") is an effect achieved by sliding the finger up...

octaves above the stopped note, although other intervals are available. Glissando (Italian for "sliding") is an effect played by sliding the finger up or...

ability to use a bow, while the fretless fingerboard accommodates smooth glissandos and legatos. Like other violin and viol-family string instruments, the...

harmonics of an A, E, and an A Artificial (false) harmonic of A7 Harmonic glissando on the A string – 566 KB. Problems playing this file? See media help....

banjos are still manufactured and played by those wishing to execute glissando, play quarter tones, or otherwise achieve the sound and feeling of early...

that he "tried to surpass him with ponticello, col legno, flautando, glissando, and fluttertongue effects". Stravinsky defined his musical character...