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In music, a glissando (Italian: [ɡlisˈsando]; plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another (Play). It is an Italianized

can produce a true glissando, by moving the slide without interrupting the airflow or sound production. Every pitch in a glissando must have the same

The glissando illusion is an auditory illusion, created when a sound with a fixed pitch, such as a synthesized oboe tone, is played together with a sine

glissando with gradual modulations. A section near the end of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Hymnen incorporates multiple descending Shepard tone glissandos

An octave glissando is a glissando played on the piano by maintaining a constant distance of an octave between the thumb and finger used to execute it

Glissando is a 1982 Romanian drama film directed by Mircea Daneliuc. The film was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at

magazine, Frederic D. Schwarz posits that the famous opening clarinet glissando has become as instantly recognizable to concert audiences as the opening

The glissando babbler (Pellorneum saturatum) is a species of bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae. It is found on the Indonesian islands of

scale, or a Shepard-Risset glissando (Polansky 2003). It consists of a repeating sequence of sine waves arranged in a glissando between twelve and fifteen

in a wire frame ending in a handle. Used in classic cartoons for its glissando effect, its sound is comparable to the musical saw. [The] flexatone [is