Toward the end the pianist stood up and struck the piano strings to give a
glissando effect.
Here it sounded terrific, from Alastair Moseley's opening clarinet
glissando, and Ward's glittering pianism enlivened with elastic rubatos and improvisational freedom, to the BPO's quite brilliant support which, notably in trumpet and woodwind sections, had all the raunchiness of a Harlem jazz band.
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Glissando: A Story of Love, Lust and Jazz" offers its fully engaged readers with a deftly crafted and truly memorable read from cover to cover.
The REACH, in contrast, is all soaring ceilings, huge windows, and swooping curves, which architect Steven Holl said were inspired by
glissando, a continuous slide of notes.
There are many different special effects such as
glissando, tremolo and ponticello, some double stops with at least one open string, slurs of two or three notes, hooked bowings and pizzicato.
It's an evocative work, suggesting, as the composer pointed out, the sonorities of a Balinese gamelan in the blending of ondes Martenot (called upon for some eerie
glissando passages) with celesta and vibraphone.
Here, and throughout the cycle, there is a special vocal effect, a
glissando glide on the word, "vastness." "Some Things are Dark" illustrates Nightmare personified, with chilling use of whispered text and extreme leaps in the vocal line.
And the piece - a thinly-veiled version of a marital misunderstanding - proved happily warm and colourful, from the chaotic opening (organised chaos of course under Petrenko's baton) to a
glissando slide into a lazy waltz, and a big splashy finale.
1) O sujeito foi solicitado a emitir a vogal /[epsilon]/ em
glissando ascendente ate a altura maxima e descendente ate a altura minima que era capaz de emitir, na intensidade mais fraca possivel; em seguida, a mesma emissao, na intensidade mais forte possivel.
Na partitura, ela tem inicio no compasso 260 quando um acorde formado exclusivamente pelo intervalo de 3a Maior (Do-Mi), distribuido por todos os registos sonoros orquestrais e duplicado pela eletronica, vai se transformando gradativamente por meio de um
glissando da orquestra, partindo dessas notas e progredindo em direcao ao agudo, enquanto a eletronica mantem as notas originais, como demonstra a figura abaixo.
One girl does a
glissando up and down, and then the other 3 copy and play
glissandos.
The vol al writing is declamatory, frequently requiring the singers to crescendo rapidly and then
glissando into a sort of Sprechstimme.