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Definition of Glissandos
1. glissando [n] - See also: glissando
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glissandos
Literary usage of Glissandos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Technique of the Modern Orchestra: A Manual of Practical Instrumentation by Charles Marie Widor (1906)
"... allowing of executing chromatic passages and those glissandos, diatonic or
otherwise, which seem to throw a kind of poetic haze over the whole orchestra ..."
2. The Orchestra by Gian Francesco Malipiero (1921)
"The few more recent discoveries (the glissandos and harmonics on the harp, the
use of mutes with nearly all the wind-instruments, the glissandos and the ..."
3. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"... the first sorrows of childhood ; the surprisingly droll "Barley Romance ; " "
The Broom and the Rod," with its programmatic glissandos to give things a ..."
4. The Pianoforte and Its Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1911)
"The octave glissandos in the finale of the " Waldstein " sonata are an instance
in point. Beethoven marked them to be played with thumb and little finger of ..."
5. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"The winding-up might have been pictured by a few well-placed trills or glissandos ;
but the picture is clever enough as it is, without the need of our ..."
6. Richard Strauss, the Man and His Works by Henry Theophilus Finck (1917)
"Arpeggios, glissandos, rapidly descending scales, bells and triangle picture the
cascade, a passage which, begun fortissimo, ends in extreme pianissimo. ..."
7. The Technique of the Modern Orchestra: A Manual of Practical Instrumentation by Charles Marie Widor (1906)
"... allowing of executing chromatic passages and those glissandos, diatonic or
otherwise, which seem to throw a kind of poetic haze over the whole orchestra ..."
8. The Orchestra by Gian Francesco Malipiero (1921)
"The few more recent discoveries (the glissandos and harmonics on the harp, the
use of mutes with nearly all the wind-instruments, the glissandos and the ..."
9. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"... the first sorrows of childhood ; the surprisingly droll "Barley Romance ; " "
The Broom and the Rod," with its programmatic glissandos to give things a ..."
10. The Pianoforte and Its Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1911)
"The octave glissandos in the finale of the " Waldstein " sonata are an instance
in point. Beethoven marked them to be played with thumb and little finger of ..."
11. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"The winding-up might have been pictured by a few well-placed trills or glissandos ;
but the picture is clever enough as it is, without the need of our ..."
12. Richard Strauss, the Man and His Works by Henry Theophilus Finck (1917)
"Arpeggios, glissandos, rapidly descending scales, bells and triangle picture the
cascade, a passage which, begun fortissimo, ends in extreme pianissimo. ..."
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