glissando

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

glissando
    adv 1: (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a
           rapidly executed series of notes); "this should be played
           glissando, please"
    n 1: a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the
         musical scale

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Glissando \Glis*san"do\, n. & a. [As if It. = Fr. glissant
   sliding.] (Mus.)
   A gliding effect; gliding.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "glissando":
      avalanche, cantando, coast, demilegato, execution, expression,
      fingering, glide, glissade, intonation, landslide, landslip,
      legato, mezzo staccato, music-making, parlando, performance,
      pianism, pizzicato, rendering, rendition, repercussion, rubato,
      sideslip, skid, slide, slip, slippage, slither, slur, snowslide,
      snowslip, spiccato, staccato, subsidence, touch

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