Glissandi

They stammer out their glissandi woes in a sort of fugal chaos, with the orchestra and its chorus washing over them with dark chords and fraying melodic lines. ❋ Jonathan Blitzer (2011)

Throughout the film, the constant cacophony of farm life becomes a symphony of bells, baas, and bleats -- of groans, grunts, and glissandi -- as the animals routinely meet, mate, and munch. ❋ George Heymont (2010)

Occasionally, violin glissandi referenced both contemporary classical technique and the bent tones of the blues. ❋ Larry Blumenfeld (2011)

There's a point when only his toes are moving, but soon his whole body seems to be borne on Sahai's tabla beat and the sighing glissandi of Soumik Datta's sarod. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Figment II (also played by Bates) is very different; a tribute to Ives '"Thoreau" and "Hallowe'en" that ends up sounding for all the world like early music, quieter and more rhythmically sober that Figment I, with oblique chains of double-stops forming a kind of free organum, around a whispered middle section washed over with harmonic glissandi. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

Also, the box reads “When play Guitar Hero 3 games, the glissandi will no function due to the game limit.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, the box reads When play Guitar Hero 3 games, the glissandi will no function due ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ms Rigacci rose to the occasion, and was able to provide the necessary frisson, despite having a much wider vibrato than Edda dell'Orso, and occasionally resorting to glissandi where Edda did not. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The orchestration is lush, too, and despite some requisite Hollywood glissandi, often delightful and surprising. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He followed his solo doing a duet with the violionist--- the violinist would do increasingly complex glissandi on his instrument, which Baron would then duplicate with his steps. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2007)

Ms. Lobel's clever design scheme gets more elaborate as the almost frenzied pace rushes toward its conclusion on the cue of harp glissandi both delicate and stinging: Out from the base of the edges that give the stage its tunnel-like depth, little "banks" of snow appear in the form of sharp, white mounds. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Gran's used music for years to soothe him when he's teetering on the edge of an episode and while there's still a hope of heading it off, and he talks about trills and bowing, about vibrato and glissandi with what sounds like authority but is likely, I know now, delusion. ❋ George, Elizabeth (2001)

Wetherby gave lectures to clubs, played cocktail piano at parties, and might enliven his weather forecast with a few glissandi from Rustle of Spring. ❋ Braun, Lilian Jackson (1998)

A suite for the piano is "En Passant," published in 1899; it ranges from a stately old dance, "At Fontainebleau," to "Napoli," a furious tarantelle with effective _glissandi_; "In Dreamland" is a most delicious revery with an odd repetition that is not preludatory, but thematic. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)

The music at the opening is full of deep, almost primordial glissandi that seem strangely enchanting. ❋ Unknown (2011)

An adjustment was made: The accompaniment shifted from light, shimmering glissandi to something pricklier and more percussive. ❋ By NATE CHINEN (2011)