Definition of Glissandos. Meaning of Glissandos. Synonyms of Glissandos

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Definition of Glissandos

Glissando
Glissando Glis*san"do, n. & a. [As if It. = Fr. glissant sliding.] (Mus.) A gliding effect; gliding.

Meaning of Glissandos from wikipedia

- atonal sweep.[citation needed] A similar device on the piano is cluster-glissandos, used extensively by Karlheinz Stockhausen in Klavierstück X, and which...
- 'inverted', 'broken' or 'false' glissandos are those that cross one or more harmonic series, requiring a simulated or faked glissando effect. Trills, though generally...
- glissando with gradual modulations. A section near the end of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Hymnen incorporates multiple descending Shepard tone glissandos...
- The glissando illusion is an auditory illusion, created when a sound with a fixed pitch, such as a synthesized oboe tone, is pla**** together with a sine...
- 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...
- whole hand in the direction of the glissando. Due to the positions of the thumbs on the player's hands, octave glissandos are almost always executed upwards...
- 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...
- guitar phrases to the original recording and pla**** the swooping harp glissandos by pasting together multiple takes of single chords. Queen spent a month...
- common, and a ribbon controller allowing for polyphonic pitch-bends and glissandos. Production of the instrument ceased in 1980. Vying with the Sequential...
- saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument. Capable of continuous glissando (portamento), the sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the...