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GLISSANDO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: glissandi   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("glissando" is a kind of...):

air; line; melodic line; melodic phrase; melody; strain; tune (a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glissando"):

slide; swoop ((music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale)

 II. (adverb) 

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Meaning:

(musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes)

Example:

this should be played glissando, please

Classified under:

Adverbs

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

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