glissade
Example Sentences
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The new mix is stuffed like a Christmas turkey with harp glissandos and twinkly Christmas motifs.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024
Seventy seconds in, he turns the notes he’s been toying with into a steady pattern, then challenges himself to splice higher pitches and glissandos into its gaps.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023
Violins deliver harmonic glissandos that echo in the vocal treatment of the word “husband,” which warps, melting downward.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2022
Early on, Weilerstein introduced a vocabulary of arcing glissandos and serrated harmonics that would slice through the surface of the “day” like recurring anxieties.
From Washington Post • May 20, 2022
If, however, this conjecture is wrong, and the performers really feel that the groups in question all start on B, then the G naturals are eliminated by the glissandos.
From The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe by Cole, Fay-Cooper
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