The orchestration is lush, too, and despite some requisite Hollywood glissandi, often delightful and surprising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just The Way Walt Made 'Em] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flemish Dancing] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: Il Maestro in America.] Reference

Penderecki, but there's a bit of foreboding glissandi on Elbow's Some Riot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference

There is a melodic line purveyed by trumpets that sounds deranged even without the glissandi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Certainly their tones are similar, as are their searing glissandi and aversion to articulated harmonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

The maximum setting is 88, allowing for glissandi over the entire keyboard range with the sustain pedal depressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

They were scrumptiously singable, Pucciniesque in the best sense with aching cadences deploying tremulous glissandi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

There are avant-garde effects such as harmonic glissandi (Penderecki effects) and below-the-bridge effects included.    From Wordnik.com.  [KVR News: Top Stories] Reference

Sharik stepped on a few glissandi before tumbling into an intense swing, ably supported by the bassist and the drummer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

With slow glissandi throughout, contrasting sections would often reappear in a fascinating array of changes and transformations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun Bloggers] Reference

Sails (Voiles) unfurl in the wind cool and crisp, the drama concentrated among the interstices of harmony, rhythm, and glissandi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

The first exploits sweeping arpeggios and glissandi techniques; the latter opens a jeweled music-box filled with nectar crystals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

If you choose a Response value that's too high, seamless portamenti turn into semitone-stepped glissandi, but the intonation will be perfect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

But the weirdly dissonant shadowings in the woodwind, the misty string backdrop and the strange percussion glissandi made it rivetingly strange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Features of Roma music are vocals that are soulful and melodramatic and the music often incorporates prominent glissandi or slides between notes.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Ms Rigacci rose to the occasion, and was able to provide the necessary Edda dell'Orso, and occasionally resorting to glissandi where Edda did not.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

Her versions of ten carols are fairly straightforward, but with the addition of the glissandi and other effects characteristic of this instrument.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines] Reference

It began with a reverberating overture, followed in quick succession by a blues tune, a chiming vigorous flamenco and ended in a burst of glissandi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

I had to play a piece by Stockhausen, which involved lots of painful glissandi up and down the keys, so I put lots of talcum powder on to make things easier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Liszt's demonic Tarantella fulfills the Mephistophelian impulses that have moved this musical amalgam, its runs and glissandi moving in aerial acrobatics across Shehori's keyboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

These range from fuzzy, near shadow-sounds - ghostly percussion glissandi, wind multiphonics, overblown whistle tones from the flute, string harmonics, and notes played inside the piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

The opening shows Novák borrowing a few stock gestures from Debussy's impressionism: Namely, the string-undulations over harp-glissandi - moonlight on the water, in standard musical iconography.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

The song has the glissandi of Middle Eastern singing, and the fact that it's a lament by a man leaving his loved ones to go off to war (as the program informs us) gives the piece a political edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Assorted glissandi in strings and timpani only added to the queasiness - and when, at last, Edgar ripped the victim's heart from beneath the floorboards the method really did descend into madness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

The high frequencies of the popping and cracking noises are transmitted faster by the ice than the deeper frequencies, which reach the listener with a time lag as glissandi sinking to almost bottomless depths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waxy.org Links] Reference

In this perspective, the two rising orchestral glissandi may be seen as symbolising simultaneously the moment of awakening from sleep and a spiritual ascent from fragmentation to wholeness, achieved in the resolving E major chord.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

In both works the composers build up clusters of sound through glissandi, harmonics, pitchless scrapes, and other unusual string techniques, exploding from pizzicati or other percussive sounds, which then recede slowly to silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [DCist] Reference

Zehetmair has the flamboyance required, from the mind-boggling spinato of the opening Andante and the scurrying glissandi which open the Agitato, both pieces blizzards of bowing industry, to the spidery pizzicato which animate Tema.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

This plug-in collection facilitates many everyday notation tasks - some of them tedious to do with Finale alone: think of tremolos, string harmonics (with correct playback), broken secondary beams, or playback for glissandi and hairpins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

5° LIszt's 'glissandi'.    From Wordnik.com.  [a bit of fun...] Reference