Crossword-Solution: GLISSANDO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Glissando | n. & a. | A gliding effect; gliding. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “GLISSANDO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Notable feature of the opening clarinet solo in "Rhapsody in Blue" | 1 answer |
| Musical slide – sing loads (anag) | 1 answer |
| Signature sound from a trombone | 1 answer |
| Rapid up-scale sweep, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Rapid series of notes | 1 answer |
| Piano flourish | 1 answer |
| Pianist's sliding effect | 1 answer |
| Pianist's finger-sliding passage | 1 answer |
| Pianist's finger-sliding | 1 answer |
| Musically a rapid series of ascending or descending notes | 1 answer |
| Musical effect that's simple for a trombone | 1 answer |
| Harpist's flourish | 1 answer |
| Effect produced by playing a series of notes very rapidly | 1 answer |
| Dramatic piano passage | 1 answer |
| Continuous slide of musical notes | 1 answer |
| MUSICAL flourish | 7 answers |
| Musical passage | 10 answers |
| ANOTHER NAME FOR A HARPIST | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Sentences with GLISSANDO (5)
Perhaps he wished to arouse us harshly from his dreamland, as was his habit while improvising for friends--a glissando would send them home shivering after an evening of delicious reverie.
Salome wheedles the young Syrian to bring forth the prophet, and her cry, "Thou wilt do this thing for me," is carried to his love-mad brain by a voluptuous glissando of the harp which is as irresistible as her glance and smile.
Pizzicato with the left hand and obbligato glissando! Hoopla! The fellow's showing off! And it isn't a Drdla souvenir or a vaudeville Brahms arrangement.
Similarly, Chopin, after improvising for his friends for an hour or two, would suddenly rouse them from their reveries by a _glissando_--sliding his fingers from one end of the key-board to the other.
From the opening shimmer and rustle of the garden, through the Gregorian chant that solemnizes the drawing of the lots, and is interrupted by the youth's start of joy at his own luck (an abrupt _glissando_); through his sturdy resolve to go to war in his friend's place, on through many battles to his death, all is on a high plane that commands sympathy for the emotion, and enforces unbounded admiration for the art.
Quotes with GLISSANDO (2)
The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that's really dreamy.
A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments - you have to do it in tune.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1980–2021).