How to Use glissando in a Sentence

glissando

noun

• Her glissandos were nimble, and her fleet, 32nd-note riffs had the playfulness of a kitten swatting a ball.
  — Barbara Jepson, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
• Whose soul doesn’t soar at the sound of that remarkable opening, with its clarinet glissando?
  — Will Friedwald, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
• This inspired some of the others to cry out as well, until the room rang with the crisscrossing glissandos of primate music.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2018
• Scales fly up and down, one impeccable glissando at a time, pausing briefly before climbing to the next half-step.
  — Paul Klenk, New York Times, 2 July 2018
• The Western flexatone was a metal plate struck with beaters that added a clang to eerie, unstable glissandos.
  — Alan G. Artner, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2017
• Some of these events recurred, like glissandos, playing on the bridge, and furiously bowed tremolos.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2019
• The waves rolling into the shore make cascades of sound, sometimes regular rhythms and sometimes duples and triples and offbeat syncopations—all set against the arpeggios and glissandos of the birds.
  — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• This time around, the 1924 masterpiece opened as written, with the celebrated, ascending clarinet glissando heard 'round the world.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 13 May 2017
• The effect is cross between a Monet waterlily panorama and a visual glissando, like someone zipping a finger rapidly across the keys of an organ.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 17 Feb. 2018
• Impressionistic string arpeggios, along with other rapid figures, moody thick chords and glissandi pervade much of the piece.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Its 30-second countdown has become synonymous with any deadline pressure, with a wood block timekeeper and a harp glissando finish as well as pizzicato strings at the very end.
  — New York Times, 8 Nov. 2020
• The eight-minute soundpiece draws on elements of the Polish composer’s early, avant-garde manner — here, tremolo glissandos in the strings and dense nine-part chords in the low brass — but uses them more subtly and poetically.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• Particularly striking is the third movement, packed with eerie string glissandos that set off the orgiastic climaxes that follow.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2018
• Roberts threw in a few of Monk’s signature eccentricities – some stretched out, exaggerated glissandos and skittering fills – with a Latin tinge supplied by drummer Bryan Carter.
  — Dan Emerson, Twin Cities, 16 May 2017
• That sound was the central element of the work, written for string quartet, and Merivale kept it interesting by continually varying the nature, tempo, range and instrumentation of each glissando.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• In the score, these processes of obliteration are mimicked in distortions of instrumental voices: coarse attacks, underblown and overblown notes, tongue slaps, glissandos, all manner of scraping and scrubbing sounds in the percussion.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
• Weilerstein kept her listeners on tenterhooks, braced for the next bout loosely symbolizing marital tension or the next soaring glissando installing a sense of calm, yearning, or loneliness.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 15 Oct. 2021
• The thickening textures that Lev-Ari built into the final pages recalled similar methodology in Goodman’s oeuvre, Cohen’s very hot solo topped off with an ascending glissando that has become a signature for her.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• Kim works within a musical philosophy that views every note and every individual articulation as alive, with glissando, attack, shape and tone as a unique and living embodiment of the music/life essence.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Players were often asked to abandon the standard twelve pitches: glissandos, microtones, whistling harmonics, and other breathy noises proliferated.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• The ending of the first movement makes clear Britten’s awareness of this aesthetic dichotomy, with a cello glissando ascent through the harmonic series, an acoustic phenomenon literally at the core of western ideas of musical consonance and harmony.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024