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Re: gliss notations

Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2017-06-08 06:39

My two cents

I've always understood a gliss to be the 'poor man's' portamento - A trombone or violin can do a portamento - a totally super chromatic slide - super because even the 'notes' between the chromatic notes are sounded. On clarinet, omitting, for the moment, embouchure tricks, a gliss is a chromatic scale - you play every possible note between start and stop. A "Rhapsody in Blue" gliss where the notes are 'smeared' into each other then becomes a portamento.

Wikipedia has a pretty good article on glissando

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