Glissando, the Glossary
In music, a glissando (plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another.[1]
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- Articulations (music)
- Ornamentation
Arpeggio
An arpeggio is a type of broken chord in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive rising or descending order. Glissando and arpeggio are Ornamentation.
Blue note
In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note that—for expressive purposes—is sung or played at a slightly different pitch from standard.
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
C major
C major (or the key of C) is a major scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. C major is one of the most common keys used in music.
Cello
The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.
Clarinet
The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.
Double bass
The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).
Drum roll
A drum roll (or roll for short) is a technique used by percussionists to produce a sustained sound for the duration of a written note.
Dynamics (music)
In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between notes or phrases. Glissando and dynamics (music) are musical notation.
See Glissando and Dynamics (music)
Embouchure
Embouchure or lipping is the use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument.
F-sharp major
F-sharp major (or the key of F) is a major scale based on sharp, consisting of the pitches F, sharp, sharp, B, sharp, sharp, and sharp.
See Glissando and F-sharp major
Finger vibrato
Finger vibrato is vibrato produced on a string instrument by cyclic hand movements. Glissando and Finger vibrato are Ornamentation.
See Glissando and Finger vibrato
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.
Free reed aerophone
A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound as air flows past a vibrating reed in a frame.
See Glissando and Free reed aerophone
French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.
Fret
A fret is any of the thin strips of material, usually metal wire, inserted laterally at specific positions along the neck or fretboard of a stringed instrument.
Fretless guitar
A fretless guitar is a guitar with a fingerboard without frets, typically a standard instrument that has had the frets removed, though some custom-built and commercial fretless guitars are occasionally made.
See Glissando and Fretless guitar
George Gershwin
George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres.
See Glissando and George Gershwin
Glissando
In music, a glissando (plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another. Glissando and glissando are articulations (music), musical notation, musical techniques and Ornamentation.
Glossary of music terminology
A variety of musical terms are encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes.
See Glissando and Glossary of music terminology
Guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.
Harmonica
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock.
Harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.
Hexatonic scale
In music and music theory, a hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches or notes per octave.
See Glissando and Hexatonic scale
Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling.
Intonation (music)
In music, intonation is the pitch accuracy of a musician or musical instrument.
See Glissando and Intonation (music)
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
John Tyrrell (musicologist)
John Tyrrell (17 August 1942 – 4 October 2018) was a British musicologist.
See Glissando and John Tyrrell (musicologist)
Joscelyn Godwin
Joscelyn Godwin (born 16 January 1945 at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England) is a composer, musicologist, and translator, known for his work on ancient music, paganism, and music in the occult.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.
See Glissando and Keyboard instrument
Keytar
Keytar (a portmanteau of keyboard and guitar) is a keyboard instrument similar to a synthesizer or MIDI controller that is supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, similar to the way a guitar is held.
Lap steel guitar
The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap.
See Glissando and Lap steel guitar
List of ornaments
word--> Ornaments are a decorative embellishment to music, either to a melody or to an accompaniment part such as a bassline or chord. Glissando and List of ornaments are Ornamentation.
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Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.
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Meend
In Hindustani music, meend (Hindi: मींड, مینڈ) refers to a glide from one note to another. Glissando and meend are articulations (music) and Ornamentation.
Minor scale
In western classical music theory, the minor scale refers to three scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending).
Miroirs
Ravel in 1907 Miroirs (French for "Mirrors") is a five-movement suite for solo piano written by French composer Maurice Ravel between 1904 and 1905.
Mode (music)
In music theory, the term mode or modus is used in a number of distinct senses, depending on context.
See Glissando and Mode (music)
Music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.
Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Musical note
In music, notes are distinct and isolatable sounds that act as the most basic building blocks for nearly all of music. Glissando and Musical note are musical notation.
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Notes (journal)
Notes is a quarterly journal devoted to "music librarianship, music bibliography and discography, the music trade, and on certain aspects of music history." Published by the Music Library Association, Notes offers reviews on current music-related books, digital media, and sound recordings as well as inventories of publishers’ catalogs and materials recently received.
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Octave glissando
An octave glissando is a glissando played on the piano by maintaining a constant distance of an octave between the thumb and finger used to execute it, and shifting the whole hand in the direction of the glissando.
See Glissando and Octave glissando
Ondes Martenot
The ondes Martenot ("Martenot waves") or ondes musicales ("musical waves") is an early electronic musical instrument.
See Glissando and Ondes Martenot
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.
Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
See Glissando and Pitch (music)
Portamento
In music, portamento (plural: portamenti, from old portamento, meaning "carriage" or "carrying") is a pitch sliding from one note to another. Glissando and portamento are articulations (music) and Ornamentation.
Rhapsody in Blue
Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects.
See Glissando and Rhapsody in Blue
Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (– 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor.
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Shepard tone
A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves.
See Glissando and Shepard tone
Sitar
The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music.
Slide whistle
A slide whistle (variously known as a swanee or swannee whistle, lotus flute, piston flute, or jazz flute) is a wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it.
See Glissando and Slide whistle
Staccato
Staccato (Italian for "detached") is a form of musical articulation. Glissando and Staccato are articulations (music) and musical notation.
Stanley Sadie
Stanley John Sadie (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.
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String bending
String bending is a guitar technique where fretted strings are displaced by application of a force by the fretting fingers in a direction perpendicular to their vibrating length.
See Glissando and String bending
String instrument
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
See Glissando and String instrument
Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.
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Theremin
The theremin (--> originally known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/ thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist).
Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
Tremolo
In music, tremolo, or tremolando, is a trembling effect. Glissando and tremolo are musical notation, musical techniques and Ornamentation.
Trombone
The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.
Unpitched percussion instrument
An unpitched percussion instrument is a percussion instrument played in such a way as to produce sounds of indeterminate pitch, or an instrument normally played in this fashion.
See Glissando and Unpitched percussion instrument
Veena
The veena, also spelled vina (वीणा IAST: vīṇā), is any of various chordophone instruments from the Indian subcontinent.
Vibrato
Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch. Glissando and vibrato are Ornamentation.
Vibrato systems for guitar
A vibrato system on a guitar is a mechanical device used to temporarily change the pitch of the strings.
See Glissando and Vibrato systems for guitar
Viola
The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed.
Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.
Vocal music
Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece.
Water organ
The water organ or hydraulic organ (ὕδραυλις) (early types are sometimes called hydraulos, hydraulus or hydraula) is a type of pipe organ blown by air, where the power source pushing the air is derived by water from a natural source (e.g. by a waterfall) or by a manual pump.
Xylophone
The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
See also
Articulations (music)
- Accent (music)
- Andolan (music)
- Articulation (music)
- Expressive timing
- Fermata
- Gamaka (music)
- Glissando
- Legato
- Marcato
- Martelé (bowstroke)
- Meend
- Pizzicato
- Portamento
- Portato
- Slur (music)
- Spiccato
- Staccato
- Tenuto
- Tie (music)
- Tonguing
Ornamentation
- Andolan (music)
- Appoggiatura
- Arpeggio
- Atalaku
- Bebung
- Cadenza
- Cambiata
- Changing tones
- Coloratura
- Diminution
- Division (music)
- Finger vibrato
- Gamaka (music)
- Glissando
- Grace note
- Jangle
- List of ornaments
- Meend
- Mordent
- Murki
- Ornament (music)
- Portamento
- Ribattuta
- Ricercate, passaggi et cadentie
- Roulade (music)
- Sebene
- Slide (musical ornament)
- Tremolo
- Trill (music)
- Vibrato
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissando
Also known as Bend (music), Bent note, Bent notes, Bent pitch, Fall off, Gliss, Glissandi, Glissando (music), Glissandos, Note bending, Pick gliss, Scoop (music), .
, Rock music, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Shepard tone, Sitar, Slide whistle, Staccato, Stanley Sadie, String bending, String instrument, Synthesizer, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Theremin, Timpani, Tremolo, Trombone, Unpitched percussion instrument, Veena, Vibrato, Vibrato systems for guitar, Viola, Violin, Vocal music, Water organ, Xylophone.