different between glissando vs portamento

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian glissando

Noun

glissando (plural glissandi or glissandos or glissandoes)

1. (music) Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).
2. A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.

Translations

Verb

glissando (third-person singular simple present glissandos, present participle glissandoing, simple past and past participle glissandoed)

1. (music) To play with a glissando or sliding effect.

Further reading

• glissando on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Noun

glissando m (plural glissandos)

1. (music) glissando

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian glissando.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??lis??ndo?]
• Hyphenation: glis?san?do
• Rhymes: -do?

Noun

glissando

1. (music) glissando (a continuous sliding from one pitch to another)

Declension

References

Italian

Verb

glissando

1. gerund of glissare

Adverb

glissando

1. In the style of a glissando

Noun

glissando m (invariable)

1. glissando

English

Etymology

From Italian portamento, from portare (“bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??t??m?nt??/

Noun

portamento (plural portamentos or portamenti)

1. (music) A smooth, gliding transition from one note to another; used especially with stringed instruments, and sometimes on brass.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 945:

     The music was feral, Eastern in scale, flattened seconds and sixths, and a kind of fretless portamento between

Translations

Italian

Etymology

portare, portarsi +? -mento

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /por.ta?men.to/

Noun

portamento m (plural portamenti)

1. bearing, carriage, deportment

Anagrams

• promettano

Further reading

• portamento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana