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Triangular notehead at the end of a glissando/portamento
The symbol indicates the highest pitch possible on the instrument (in this particular case: a glissando to the highest possible pitch). It only makes sense for an instrument with an undefined highest ...
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Is it possible to perform a chromatic glissando on harp?
On the common pedal harp- not very quickly. The harp does not have a string for each chromatic note; rather, it has one string for each note in Cb major, and the pitches of strings can be altered ...
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Glissando vs Arpeggio
Adding to Aaron's answer, a glissando doesn't have to be - in fact often isn't - comprised of any particular notes. In fact, on piano, it's usually deployed by sliding along all the white keys, when ...
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How to write this glissando/arpeggio for orchestral harp?
I’m assuming that everywhere you said A and E you actually mean Ab and Eb, right? The answer definitely isn’t c), glissando should only be used for sweeps across all strings, but there’s no pedal ...
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Glissando: white notes or black notes?
A piano gliss is usually on white notes, with the back of the middle finger. Where it needs a specific 'landing point', and it's a black note, it's easy to turn the first finger onto it.
Sometimes '...
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Notation of portamento
What you have at present is vague about whether the gliss starts early or late, but is pretty clear that it ends on the FIRST beat of bar 2.
For clarity of exactly where the gliss starts and ends, I ...
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Lilypond - Contemporary Glissando to hidden final note
I think you want to turn the cadenza off earlier,
so change lines 22-24 from:
c4\glissando \hideNotes c,,4 \unHideNotes
\cadenzaOff
to:
c4\glissando \hideNotes \cadenzaOff c,,4 \...
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Glissando during arpeggiando on string instruments
The answer is sort of "Yes, but."
The general principle is sound: You can take a four-string chord and "translate" it up the fingerboard in parallel motion. And sure, the fact ...
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Glissando vs Arpeggio
'Arpeggio' is easy to define. It's a 'broken chord'. The notes of a chord played one after another rather than all at once.
'Glissando' is the equivalent for a scale. But does it step or slide ...
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Fingered glissando, how to do it?
Beyond the traditional way of starting-slow-and-increasing-tempo, you can also use other tactics as well:
study which fingering best adapts to your hands. Little hands have different needs compared ...
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Lilypond - Contemporary Glissando to hidden final note
The above answer is not right; the spacing is incorrect, and it will not align properly if you have other instruments in parallel staves.
This is because the cadenza makes the 3/4 bar have an extra ...
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What are these called? Is it appropriately correct to say "cluster glissandi"?
Wikipedia refers to these as "double-note arpeggi":
Then the coda explodes into a musical battle between soloist and orchestra, with prominent piano ornamentation over the orchestra (...
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Glissandos in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3 Mov.3
I tried this fingering, i don't know if it' ll work on a fast tempo.
Maybe, the use of the first finger for double notes is better.
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How to play a glissando without hurting your hand?
I’m a pretty new pianist, on grade 6. But I think for glissandos, use the nails of your finger.
R.h. Down: finger 1, thumb’s nail. Don’t clench your fist up.
L.h. Down: number 3’s nail, and prehaps ...
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Fingered glissando, how to do it?
One way that I actually found useful on piano once is to start with "infinite tempo", which basically means just playing a chord. Then you try to add a tiny little space between them.
On many ...
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Glissando, fall, and lip bends on trumpet, what are some good exersices?
I'm assuming your talking about this:
. Which is killer playing, hadn't heard him before (I think) and its a great performance.
Its great stuff to have in your bag of ...
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Glissando without a final note too long
It's hard to know what you are trying to achieve without some kind of image/drawing.
I guess that you want the final note to take up no metrical time in the bar, if so you probably want to use a ...
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How to notate specific-note harp glissando?
The exact notation depends on the specifics of how you'd like the arpeggio to be executed. Here are a few possibilities. (The open-ended ties in the first example can be used on any of the others to ...
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Glissando: white notes or black notes?
On the piano, a glissando is possible on either the white or black keys. In the latter case, it would be an ascending or descending pentatonic scale. I use the back of my fingers. It never hurt me.
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Erhu glissando symbols in LilyPond
The "falls and doits" as described here come close. They produce curves but not the arrowhead.
Sample code:
c2\bendAfter #+4
c2\bendAfter #-4
c2\bendAfter #+6.5
c2\bendAfter #-6.5
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Is it possible to perform a chromatic glissando on harp?
If we allow to go a bit into contemporary, I would suggest using a bottleck, moving to shorten the string.
Of course this would have to be done on a unwound string, so not starting to low.
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Is there a word for the motif of linearly-tumbling & surging little bundles of notes? (E.g., "FEDC-FEDC-BCDEF")
It seems like you're hoping for a name for this phenomenon—a noun. I don't know of one, but there's an adjective that might help: scalar (also stepwise motion). When we talk about the way we move from ...
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Glissando vs Arpeggio
An arpeggio is a chord broken up into individual notes. Each individual note is heard as a discrete unit.
The video below shows a person practicing some basic arpeggios.
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For a given key, are there rules on selecting the right notes to perform glissando on?
You have many options here, ultimately it’s up to you. Some factors are:
How long do you want the slide to be? An octave? A fifth? More? Less?
How long are you going to hold the beginning note for? If ...
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Harp Multiple Glissando
After some research I found what might be the answer: Slow Cluster Glissando
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How to write this glissando/arpeggio for orchestral harp?
According to Piston (Orchestration) & Blatter (Instrumentation and Orchestration), the default manner of playing a chord for orchestral harp arpeggiated and any annotation to the chord changes the ...
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Is the Baroque Schleifer, slide, or glissando symbol evolved from the Gregorian chant quilisma?
I'm afraid I have to take the skeptical view and say that Baroque musicians chose the most suitable symbol for the job, which it turned out the medievals had chosen eight centuries earlier.
The ...
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Is the Baroque Schleifer, slide, or glissando symbol evolved from the Gregorian chant quilisma?
No, this is not an accidental coincidence:
There is enough evidence from your wiki site to answer all other questions in your post with yes!
The quilisma and the schleifer are both a graphic sign to ...
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