glissando

How To Use glissando In A Sentence

• With much vibrato and glissando , she depicted the vocal melodies and with just as much sensitivity and temperament she expressed the poesy of the pieces and her joy of life.
• I've read most of my trip book, Thomas Harlan's Wasteland of Flint, which is a kind of glissando Lovecraftian space opera set in an imperfectly realized alternate history in which the Aztecs conquered the world and run the human empire in space. Kenneth Hite's Journal
• On the fretless guitar this means that I can glissando in opposite directions on different strings.
• The strings are generally plucked with the fingers, but the peasants obtain charming "glissando" effects by sweeping the strings lightly one after the other with the fingers or side of the hand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
• 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.
• I stripped the back of my right thumb playing glissando - that's where you flick the keyboard to produce that crashing down the keys effect - and one of the keys in the lower register must have had a sharp edge, so my left thumb has a patch of missing skin. On Sunday morning, I woke with bleeding fingers and a pocket full of dice
• Glissando passages in chords of the seventh and ninth, enharmonically obtained, are much more common, and as the above reservations do not apply, every dynamic shade of tone is possible. Principles of orchestration
• Viola and cello retune their bottom strings in microtones, creating unexpected new chords, and the music is filled with trills, tremolandos and glissandos; the goal, Haas says, is "to glide freely through unknown aural landscapes". This week's new live music
• The double bass starts with a downward glissando. Times, Sunday Times
• She made windchimes from the song-storms 'leavings, and they shone in the windows and chimed glissando like the sweetest eighth-notes and sixteenth-notes. Valentines, part the first