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With instruments such as violins or trombones, it is possible to shift from one tone to another fluidly. What is this practice called? When has it first appeared in [Western] music?
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Glissando, "glide from one pitch to another", or portamento, "pitch sliding from one note to another".
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissando
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portamento
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As other answers have noted, "glissando" is slightly different from "portamento", although often mistakenly used as a synonym.
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Glissando is a metered slide from one note to another that takes the given duration of the first note to perform. On instruments like a piano it is usually approximated "discretely" by sweeping across the white or black keys. Portamento is an unmetered smooth jump "between" successive notes (in timing similar to grace notes) like what happens naturally when having two different slur-connected notes played by the same finger on the same string of a violin and separated by a position change. There is no way to approximate that on a keyboard instrument.
Last sentence: read my answer. Engage 'portamento', press one key, press another.
– Tim
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Sliding between two notes, up or down, and including the notes 'in the cracks' at the same time, is called portamento. It's been around for as long as the particular instruments it's possible to play it on. As you say, trombones, unfretted stringed instruments. It's possible also on trumpets and clarinets, easier to play in the upper registers.Slide guitar works well, but it's impossible on acoustic pianos - although a lot of keyboards - synths - have a portamento setting.
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Ha! I bet portamento was discovered within 90 seconds of the violin's invention :)
– user45266
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@user45266 I rather suspect that portamento predates the invention of the violin or, Tim, of any instrument, since it is also possible with the human voice. (In fact, in many styles, teaching singing involves a good deal of restraining a natural tendency to slide around, and even passages that aren't perceived as sliding probably actually involve sliding so quickly that it isn't noticed.)
– phoog
6 hours ago
In the comments, you say that portamento is a more accurate term than glissando. I work with computer music instead of playing an instrument, so it might just be a gap in my knowledge, but I've always heard glissando for this. What exactly is the difference to you, and why do you say portamento is the better term?
– Kevin
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When has it first appeared in [Western] music?
"Portamento [has been] considered an essential aspect of good singing for hundreds of years..."
-- J. Potter, 2006, "The rise and fall of portamento in singing", Music & Letters 87(4), p. 523
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Glissando, "glide from one pitch to another", or portamento, "pitch sliding from one note to another".
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissando
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portamento
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As other answers have noted, "glissando" is slightly different from "portamento", although often mistakenly used as a synonym.
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Glissando, "glide from one pitch to another", or portamento, "pitch sliding from one note to another".
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissando
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portamento
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As other answers have noted, "glissando" is slightly different from "portamento", although often mistakenly used as a synonym.
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Glissando, "glide from one pitch to another", or portamento, "pitch sliding from one note to another".
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissando
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portamento
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Glissando, "glide from one pitch to another", or portamento, "pitch sliding from one note to another".
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissando
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portamento
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As other answers have noted, "glissando" is slightly different from "portamento", although often mistakenly used as a synonym.
– user45266
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As other answers have noted, "glissando" is slightly different from "portamento", although often mistakenly used as a synonym.
– user45266
6 hours ago
1
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As other answers have noted, "glissando" is slightly different from "portamento", although often mistakenly used as a synonym.
– user45266
6 hours ago
As other answers have noted, "glissando" is slightly different from "portamento", although often mistakenly used as a synonym.
– user45266
6 hours ago
add a comment
|
Glissando is a metered slide from one note to another that takes the given duration of the first note to perform. On instruments like a piano it is usually approximated "discretely" by sweeping across the white or black keys. Portamento is an unmetered smooth jump "between" successive notes (in timing similar to grace notes) like what happens naturally when having two different slur-connected notes played by the same finger on the same string of a violin and separated by a position change. There is no way to approximate that on a keyboard instrument.
Last sentence: read my answer. Engage 'portamento', press one key, press another.
– Tim
10 hours ago
2
Probably referring to acoustic keyboard instruments, @Tim. With digital instruments, just about anything's possible.
– user45266
6 hours ago
add a comment
|
Glissando is a metered slide from one note to another that takes the given duration of the first note to perform. On instruments like a piano it is usually approximated "discretely" by sweeping across the white or black keys. Portamento is an unmetered smooth jump "between" successive notes (in timing similar to grace notes) like what happens naturally when having two different slur-connected notes played by the same finger on the same string of a violin and separated by a position change. There is no way to approximate that on a keyboard instrument.
Last sentence: read my answer. Engage 'portamento', press one key, press another.
– Tim
10 hours ago
2
Probably referring to acoustic keyboard instruments, @Tim. With digital instruments, just about anything's possible.
– user45266
6 hours ago
add a comment
|
Glissando is a metered slide from one note to another that takes the given duration of the first note to perform. On instruments like a piano it is usually approximated "discretely" by sweeping across the white or black keys. Portamento is an unmetered smooth jump "between" successive notes (in timing similar to grace notes) like what happens naturally when having two different slur-connected notes played by the same finger on the same string of a violin and separated by a position change. There is no way to approximate that on a keyboard instrument.
Glissando is a metered slide from one note to another that takes the given duration of the first note to perform. On instruments like a piano it is usually approximated "discretely" by sweeping across the white or black keys. Portamento is an unmetered smooth jump "between" successive notes (in timing similar to grace notes) like what happens naturally when having two different slur-connected notes played by the same finger on the same string of a violin and separated by a position change. There is no way to approximate that on a keyboard instrument.
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Last sentence: read my answer. Engage 'portamento', press one key, press another.
– Tim
10 hours ago
2
Probably referring to acoustic keyboard instruments, @Tim. With digital instruments, just about anything's possible.
– user45266
6 hours ago
add a comment
|
Last sentence: read my answer. Engage 'portamento', press one key, press another.
– Tim
10 hours ago
2
Probably referring to acoustic keyboard instruments, @Tim. With digital instruments, just about anything's possible.
– user45266
6 hours ago
Last sentence: read my answer. Engage 'portamento', press one key, press another.
– Tim
10 hours ago
Last sentence: read my answer. Engage 'portamento', press one key, press another.
– Tim
10 hours ago
2
2
Probably referring to acoustic keyboard instruments, @Tim. With digital instruments, just about anything's possible.
– user45266
6 hours ago
Probably referring to acoustic keyboard instruments, @Tim. With digital instruments, just about anything's possible.
– user45266
6 hours ago
add a comment
|
Sliding between two notes, up or down, and including the notes 'in the cracks' at the same time, is called portamento. It's been around for as long as the particular instruments it's possible to play it on. As you say, trombones, unfretted stringed instruments. It's possible also on trumpets and clarinets, easier to play in the upper registers.Slide guitar works well, but it's impossible on acoustic pianos - although a lot of keyboards - synths - have a portamento setting.
answered 11 hours ago
TimTim
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Ha! I bet portamento was discovered within 90 seconds of the violin's invention :)
– user45266
6 hours ago
2
@user45266 I rather suspect that portamento predates the invention of the violin or, Tim, of any instrument, since it is also possible with the human voice. (In fact, in many styles, teaching singing involves a good deal of restraining a natural tendency to slide around, and even passages that aren't perceived as sliding probably actually involve sliding so quickly that it isn't noticed.)
– phoog
6 hours ago
In the comments, you say that portamento is a more accurate term than glissando. I work with computer music instead of playing an instrument, so it might just be a gap in my knowledge, but I've always heard glissando for this. What exactly is the difference to you, and why do you say portamento is the better term?
– Kevin
2 hours ago
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Sliding between two notes, up or down, and including the notes 'in the cracks' at the same time, is called portamento. It's been around for as long as the particular instruments it's possible to play it on. As you say, trombones, unfretted stringed instruments. It's possible also on trumpets and clarinets, easier to play in the upper registers.Slide guitar works well, but it's impossible on acoustic pianos - although a lot of keyboards - synths - have a portamento setting.
answered 11 hours ago
TimTim
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Ha! I bet portamento was discovered within 90 seconds of the violin's invention :)
– user45266
6 hours ago
2
@user45266 I rather suspect that portamento predates the invention of the violin or, Tim, of any instrument, since it is also possible with the human voice. (In fact, in many styles, teaching singing involves a good deal of restraining a natural tendency to slide around, and even passages that aren't perceived as sliding probably actually involve sliding so quickly that it isn't noticed.)
– phoog
6 hours ago
In the comments, you say that portamento is a more accurate term than glissando. I work with computer music instead of playing an instrument, so it might just be a gap in my knowledge, but I've always heard glissando for this. What exactly is the difference to you, and why do you say portamento is the better term?
– Kevin
2 hours ago
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Sliding between two notes, up or down, and including the notes 'in the cracks' at the same time, is called portamento. It's been around for as long as the particular instruments it's possible to play it on. As you say, trombones, unfretted stringed instruments. It's possible also on trumpets and clarinets, easier to play in the upper registers.Slide guitar works well, but it's impossible on acoustic pianos - although a lot of keyboards - synths - have a portamento setting.
answered 11 hours ago
TimTim
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Sliding between two notes, up or down, and including the notes 'in the cracks' at the same time, is called portamento. It's been around for as long as the particular instruments it's possible to play it on. As you say, trombones, unfretted stringed instruments. It's possible also on trumpets and clarinets, easier to play in the upper registers.Slide guitar works well, but it's impossible on acoustic pianos - although a lot of keyboards - synths - have a portamento setting.
answered 11 hours ago
TimTim
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answered 11 hours ago
TimTim
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answered 11 hours ago
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Ha! I bet portamento was discovered within 90 seconds of the violin's invention :)
– user45266
6 hours ago
2
@user45266 I rather suspect that portamento predates the invention of the violin or, Tim, of any instrument, since it is also possible with the human voice. (In fact, in many styles, teaching singing involves a good deal of restraining a natural tendency to slide around, and even passages that aren't perceived as sliding probably actually involve sliding so quickly that it isn't noticed.)
– phoog
6 hours ago
In the comments, you say that portamento is a more accurate term than glissando. I work with computer music instead of playing an instrument, so it might just be a gap in my knowledge, but I've always heard glissando for this. What exactly is the difference to you, and why do you say portamento is the better term?
– Kevin
2 hours ago
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Ha! I bet portamento was discovered within 90 seconds of the violin's invention :)
– user45266
6 hours ago
2
@user45266 I rather suspect that portamento predates the invention of the violin or, Tim, of any instrument, since it is also possible with the human voice. (In fact, in many styles, teaching singing involves a good deal of restraining a natural tendency to slide around, and even passages that aren't perceived as sliding probably actually involve sliding so quickly that it isn't noticed.)
– phoog
6 hours ago
In the comments, you say that portamento is a more accurate term than glissando. I work with computer music instead of playing an instrument, so it might just be a gap in my knowledge, but I've always heard glissando for this. What exactly is the difference to you, and why do you say portamento is the better term?
– Kevin
2 hours ago
Ha! I bet portamento was discovered within 90 seconds of the violin's invention :)
– user45266
6 hours ago
Ha! I bet portamento was discovered within 90 seconds of the violin's invention :)
– user45266
6 hours ago
2
2
@user45266 I rather suspect that portamento predates the invention of the violin or, Tim, of any instrument, since it is also possible with the human voice. (In fact, in many styles, teaching singing involves a good deal of restraining a natural tendency to slide around, and even passages that aren't perceived as sliding probably actually involve sliding so quickly that it isn't noticed.)
– phoog
6 hours ago
@user45266 I rather suspect that portamento predates the invention of the violin or, Tim, of any instrument, since it is also possible with the human voice. (In fact, in many styles, teaching singing involves a good deal of restraining a natural tendency to slide around, and even passages that aren't perceived as sliding probably actually involve sliding so quickly that it isn't noticed.)
– phoog
6 hours ago
In the comments, you say that portamento is a more accurate term than glissando. I work with computer music instead of playing an instrument, so it might just be a gap in my knowledge, but I've always heard glissando for this. What exactly is the difference to you, and why do you say portamento is the better term?
– Kevin
2 hours ago
In the comments, you say that portamento is a more accurate term than glissando. I work with computer music instead of playing an instrument, so it might just be a gap in my knowledge, but I've always heard glissando for this. What exactly is the difference to you, and why do you say portamento is the better term?
– Kevin
2 hours ago
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When has it first appeared in [Western] music?
"Portamento [has been] considered an essential aspect of good singing for hundreds of years..."
-- J. Potter, 2006, "The rise and fall of portamento in singing", Music & Letters 87(4), p. 523
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When has it first appeared in [Western] music?
"Portamento [has been] considered an essential aspect of good singing for hundreds of years..."
-- J. Potter, 2006, "The rise and fall of portamento in singing", Music & Letters 87(4), p. 523
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"Portamento [has been] considered an essential aspect of good singing for hundreds of years..."
-- J. Potter, 2006, "The rise and fall of portamento in singing", Music & Letters 87(4), p. 523
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