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• n  a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale
• r  (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes)
  this should be played glissando, please

• Vocally, she slithers through her lines with the glissando of a soprano trombone.
• Even the famous opening--the skyward clarinet glissando--is given a new twist.
• The late great Trumpet Player Leon Bismarck ("Bix") Beiderbecke's effortless glissando, accompanied by various old bands, was to be heard sprinkling graceful, spontaneous melody .