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- noun Plural form of
glissando .
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Examples
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They stammer out their glissandi woes in a sort of fugal chaos, with the orchestra and its chorus washing over them with dark chords and fraying melodic lines.
Pilar Jurado's Blank Page Jonathan Blitzer 2011
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Throughout the film, the constant cacophony of farm life becomes a symphony of bells, baas, and bleats -- of groans, grunts, and glissandi -- as the animals routinely meet, mate, and munch.
George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack George Heymont 2010
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Occasionally, violin glissandi referenced both contemporary classical technique and the bent tones of the blues.
Ten Years in Three Nights: A Decade's Triumph Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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Throughout the film, the constant cacophony of farm life becomes a symphony of bells, baas, and bleats -- of groans, grunts, and glissandi -- as the animals routinely meet, mate, and munch.
George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack George Heymont 2010
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There's a point when only his toes are moving, but soon his whole body seems to be borne on Sahai's tabla beat and the sighing glissandi of Soumik Datta's sarod.
Gnosis 2010
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Figment II (also played by Bates) is very different; a tribute to Ives '"Thoreau" and "Hallowe'en" that ends up sounding for all the world like early music, quieter and more rhythmically sober that Figment I, with oblique chains of double-stops forming a kind of free organum, around a whispered middle section washed over with harmonic glissandi.
Magna Carter (4): Identity Politics Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Figment II (also played by Bates) is very different; a tribute to Ives '"Thoreau" and "Hallowe'en" that ends up sounding for all the world like early music, quieter and more rhythmically sober that Figment I, with oblique chains of double-stops forming a kind of free organum, around a whispered middle section washed over with harmonic glissandi.
Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Also, the box reads “When play Guitar Hero 3 games, the glissandi will no function due to the game limit.”
The two greatest things I saw this Christmas « The Retort 2009
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Also, the box reads When play Guitar Hero 3 games, the glissandi will no function due ...
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Ms Rigacci rose to the occasion, and was able to provide the necessary frisson, despite having a much wider vibrato than Edda dell'Orso, and occasionally resorting to glissandi where Edda did not.
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