Word Study
glissando
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun glissando has 1 sense
- glissando(n = noun.communication) Array - a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale; Array has particulars: slide, swoop
is a kind of air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, tune
Adverbial glissando has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
glissando, n. & a. [As if It. = Fr. glissant sliding.].
A gliding effect; gliding. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
glissando, n. (pl. glissandi or -os) Mus. a continuous slide of adjacent notes upwards or downwards.
Etymology
It. f. F glissant sliding (as GLISSADE)
THESAURUS
glissando
avalanche, cantando, coast, demilegato, execution, expression, fingering, glide, glissade, intonation, landslide, landslip, legato, mezzo staccato, music-making, parlando, performance, pianism, pizzicato, rendering, rendition, repercussion, rubato, sideslip, skid, slide, slip, slippage, slither, slur, snowslide, snowslip, spiccato, staccato, subsidence, touch
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