In music a glissando is a slide up or down the notes of a scale.

At the end the strings play a gradually rising glissando.

A string player should be able to make a few bucks off a glissando alone, especially a long one.

The end of each phrase is marked by a descending glissando.

The guitar glissando continues to be played during the verses.

The glissando is so rapid that the repetitions of certain notes in it are not heard.

See glissando for further information; and compare portamento in this list.

These can be used to make a glissando.

This gives the music a sliding metallic sound with pronounced glissando.

The glissando surfaces move independently in each of the four orchestral groups.

Glissando is an effect in which the fretting hand slides up or down the neck.

The handle is sometimes covered with a metal plate to facilitate the glissando.

The work makes notable use of the glissando effect in both strings and trombones.

In this case the numbers on either side determine the starting and ending pitches for the glissando.

He is a fascinating artist with a singular technique of continual glissando.

The pianist has to play a glissando with tips of the fingers or the finger nails.

"A characteristic guitar effect, the attacked single note with long decay and glissando fall"

During a trombone glissando, the slide direction must not change or the sound breaks.

String-bending for example may be used to produce a glissando or portamento.

Then the man whistled in an incredibly complex glissando.

Her work uses glissando prominently and builds exponentially in level of activity.

The student must be careful to avoid the temptation of using the harp glissando to excess.

Alternate positions are also needed to allow a player to produce a glissando to or from a higher note on the same partial.

If no pause is executed, then it is a basic glissando; or 2.

The more pronounced the glissando, the more electrons were in the way, and the further the source was from the Earth.