In music, a glissando (Italian: [ɡlisˈsando]; plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another (). It is an Italianized musical term derived from the French glisser, "to glide". In some contexts, it is equivalent to portamento, which is a continuous, seamless glide between notes. In other contexts, it refers to discrete, stepped glides across notes, such as on a piano. Some terms that are similar or equivalent in some contexts are slide, sweep bend, smear, rip (for a loud, violent glissando to the beginning of a note),[1] lip (in jazz terminology, when executed by changing one's embouchure on a wind instrument),[2] plop, or falling hail (a glissando on a harp using the back of the fingernails).[3] On wind instruments, a scoop is a glissando ascending to the onset of a note achieved entirely with the embouchure, except on instruments that have a slide (such as a trombone).[4]
- ^ Anon. (2003). "Rip". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5. (Though the editor is Deane Root, not L. Deane Root).
- ^ Witmer, Robert (2001). "Lip". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5., from The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Dean Kernfeld (New York: Grove Dictionaries, 2002).
- ^ "Harp Spectrum - Glossary A - M". harpspectrum.org. Harp Spectrum. Archived from the original on October 21, 2006. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
falling hail: gliding in the center of the strings with the back of the fingernails. (C. Salzedo)
- ^ "Scoop". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. 2001. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J400300.