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Glissando objects

• Dec 25, 2012 - 01:10

One of glissando lines is squiggly, but the other isn't.

What is the difference (if any) between the two?

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• Dec 25, 2012 - 13:07

I imagine some writers may have tried to adopt a convention where one would mean a stepwise gliss and the other might indicate a continuous pitch bend, for instruments in which this is possible. But no such convention exists im general that I know of - it's just personal preference which to use, and they mean the same thing to a musician reading them.

chen lung

• Dec 25, 2012 - 14:34

I thought similarly about the stepwise (squiggly) and pitch bend (straight) glissando.

Thanks Marc.