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• I was also struck by the obvious musical links between what these musicians were conveying in its purest form, and the roots of our own American music: the glissandos, time signatures, the improvisations; it was all there to hear and mark as building blocks of the blues. Michal Shapiro: Bards of West Africa: the Griot Summit (Video)
• 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
• Start slow, speed up, seek a machine-like precision -- no buzzes, no squeaks on the chord changes or glissando, varied tone, volume. Practicing
• this should be played glissando, please
• 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.
• No matter how middle-of-the-road the ballad, Keys will plaster it with showy arpeggios, rococo trills and glissandos, an approach that brings to mind the unlovely image of Dido jamming with Richard Clayderman.
• The double bass starts with a downward glissando. Times, Sunday Times
• 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.
• 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
• The double bass starts with a downward glissando. Times, Sunday Times