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- How do you notate portamento?
- What is the difference between portamento and glissando?
- How do you notate a glissando?
- What is portamento in singing?
How do you notate portamento?
In the first example, Rodolfo's first aria in La Sonnambula (1831), the portamento is indicated by the slur between the third and fourth notes. The second example, Judit's first line in Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1912), employs an inclining, wavy line between the fourth and fifth notes to indicate a steady rise in pitch.
What is the difference between portamento and glissando?
Most simply stated, a portamento is an ornamentation used at the end of a note to connect to it to the next, while a glissando is more of a deliberate slide between two notes.
How do you notate a glissando?
The glissando is indicated by following the initial note with a line, sometimes wavy, in the desired direction, often accompanied by the abbreviation gliss.. Occasionally, the desired notes are notated in the standard method (i.e. semiquavers) accompanied by the word 'glissando'.
What is portamento in singing?
Portamento—meaning "carriage" or "carrying"—is understood as the means whereby one note is united with another. ... Rather, the acquisition of portamento enables the singer—as Manuel García understood it—to "equalize the registers, timbres and powers of the voice."
