Glissando

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Music A rapid slide through a series of consecutive tones in a scalelike passage.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A musical term that refers to either a continuous sliding one pitch to another (or "true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another (or "effective" glissando).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective-and-noun. A gliding effect; gliding.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In pianoforte-playing, an effect produced by running the tips of the fingers rapidly along the keys, without striking them with the fingers separately.
  • n. In violin-playing, a rapid slur. Also glissato, glissicando, and glissicato.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • ad. (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes)
  • n. a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale
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