glissando

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian glissando

Noun

glissando (plural glissandi or glissandos or glissandoes)

  1. (music) Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).

Translations

Verb

glissando (third-person singular simple present glissandos, present participle glissandoing, simple past and past participle glissandoed)

  1. (music) To play with a glissando or sliding effect.

Further reading

French

Noun

glissando m (plural glissandos)

  1. (music) glissando

Italian

Verb

glissando

  1. gerund of glissare

Adverb

glissando

  1. In the style of a glissando

Noun

glissando m (invariable)

  1. glissando
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