• In music, a glissando (Italian: [ɡlisˈsando]; plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another (Play). It is an Italianized...
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  • The glissando illusion is an auditory illusion, created when a sound with a fixed pitch, such as a synthesized oboe tone, is played together with a sine...
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    Trombone (redirect from False glissando)
    can produce a true glissando, by moving the slide without interrupting the airflow or sound production. Every pitch in a glissando must have the same...
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  • 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...
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    glissando with gradual modulations. A section near the end of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Hymnen incorporates multiple descending Shepard tone glissandos...
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  • Glissando is a 1982 Romanian drama film directed by Mircea Daneliuc. The film was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at...
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    magazine, Frederic D. Schwarz posits that the famous opening clarinet glissando has become as instantly recognizable to concert audiences as the opening...
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  • The glissando babbler (Pellorneum saturatum) is a species of bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae. It is found on the Indonesian islands of...
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    mano. Tip tone. 9. Tono de uñas. Fingernails tone. 10. Tono deslizado. Glissando tone. There are four basic strokes in conga drumming: Open tone (tono...
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  • right (e.g. tempo giusto in strict time) glissando A continuous sliding from one pitch to another (a true glissando), or an incidental scale executed while...
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