Timeline for Glissando: white notes or black notes?
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| Aug 7, 2017 at 13:53 | comment | added | Laurence | Is it? On piano 'gliss' is the name of a particular gesture. We can also play fast chromatic scales. But a gliss is where we turn the finger over and slide up (or down). | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 11:21 | comment | added | yo' | @AF what do you mean by "classic"? Also, I would note that if the gliss is short (just a third or a fourth or so), it's commonly played as a chromatic sequence of all the notes between the beginning and the end ones. | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 20:55 | comment | added | Laurence | You don't seem to have read my answer! Yes, there is a default, a white note gliss. If you just write 'gliss' this is what you will get. If you want a black note gliss, say so. Write 'black note gliss'. If you want something else - well you can ASK for 'D major gliss' or 'Chromatic gliss' but you'll have to tell the player how to do it! A sequencer could manage it of course, so in these days of computer-generated music maybe it isn't all that silly a question. | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 19:08 | comment | added | Amir F | Thanks, so there is no default rule for gliss. for example in classic pieces? Or if Intend to prefer whites to blacks or if I want some notes in the middle to be included in the gliss. how would be the notation rules? How to clarify exactly what I mean on my sheet? How to write I want all the chromatic notes to be played for that specific gliss.? Another question: If for example the music is in F#M, which has lots of sharps, doesn't playing gliss with only white keys seems a lot out of tune or something like that? | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 8:22 | comment | added | Brian Chandler | Good answer. You could also note that other variations are possible: Ravel writes glissandos in thirds, and it is possible to do a similar "chromatic" glissando, playing the white notes with thumb and black notes with fingers (or vice versa), not that I've ever seen this written. | |
| Aug 5, 2017 at 21:17 | history | answered | Laurence | CC BY-SA 3.0 |