How To Use Glissando In A Sentence
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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)
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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
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Start slow, speed up, seek a machine-like precision -- no buzzes, no squeaks on the chord changes or glissando, varied tone, volume.
Practicing
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this should be played glissando, please
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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.
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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.
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The double bass starts with a downward glissando.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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The double bass starts with a downward glissando.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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"
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On the fretless guitar this means that I can glissando in opposite directions on different strings.
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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
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The voice is always in evidence, of course, but it's in public that it becomes shaped, like a piece of music, and one almost consciously listens for all the gilded glissandoes, the curlicues of wit, the velvet pauses.
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The initial ‘Meditation’ is very troubled, with hectic glissandos and fitful ostinatos.
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Buckmaster cites the french horn glissando in the introduction to Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through the Grapevine.
Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy
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The night music of the third movement flickered with spectral glissandos and eerie harmonics.
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There wasn't any trick of the harp trade that Levalier missed as she glided through iridescent glissandos or swept through rippling arpeggios.
In performance: KenCen Chamber Players
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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.
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The technical operation known as glissando is peculiar to the harp alone.
Principles of orchestration
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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
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The initial ‘Meditation’ is very troubled, with hectic glissandos and fitful ostinatos.
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All around his steadfast melodies, Davell Crawford was a tsunami of improvisation: surging ostinatos and florid filigree, tremolo chords and keyboard-spanning glissandos, excess as exaltation.
Jazzfest: More from The Stomp - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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There is booze and cocaine and gunplay galore but also a great deal about "glissandos" and "compilation vocal tracks" and other such recording arcana.
Heartache Anthem
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The singers had a hard time performing glissandos; they were so careful it always sounded like scales.
Stravinsky Crashes the Party
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After Mr. Goines alighted to the stage and played a solo on soprano, Mr. Gordon climaxed the tune with a glissando and high note, phrased more like a saxophone than a tr ombone.
Singing and Swinging
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The night music of the third movement flickered with spectral glissandos and eerie harmonics.
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The jocular expression of an approaching dangerous social situation is often conveyed by people sounding out its ominous low-pitched glissando quavers.
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