Editing Glissando (section)

==Discrete glissando==
On some instruments (e.g., [[piano]], [[harp]], [[xylophone]]), discrete tones are clearly audible when sliding. For example, on a [[Keyboard instrument|keyboard]], a player's fingernails can be made to slide across the white keys or over the black keys, producing either a [[C major]] scale or an [[F-sharp major|F{{music|#}} major]] [[pentatonic scale]], or their [[minor scale|relative]] [[Mode (music)|modes]]; by performing both at once, it is possible to produce a full [[chromatic scale]]. [[Maurice Ravel]] used glissandi in many of his piano compositions, and "[[Miroirs|Alborada del Gracioso]]" contains notable piano glissando passages in thirds executed by the right hand. [[Rachmaninoff]], [[Prokofiev]], [[Liszt]] and [[Gershwin]] have all used glissandi for piano in notable compositions.

[[Organ (music)|Organ]] players—particularly in contemporary music—sometimes employ an effect known as the palm glissando, where over the course of the glissando the flat of the hand is used to depress a wide area of keys simultaneously, resulting in a dramatic [[Atonality|atonal]] sweep.{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}} 

A similar device on the piano is cluster-glissandos, used extensively by [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] in ''[[Klavierstücke (Stockhausen)#Klavierstück X|Klavierstück X]]'', and which "more than anything else, lend the work its unique aural flavour".<ref>[[Joscelyn Godwin|Godwin, Joscelyn]]. "Karlheinz Stockhausen: Nr. 4, ''Klavierstück X''" (review). ''[[Notes (journal)|Notes]]'', second series, 25, no. 2 (December): 332–33. Citation on 333.</ref> On a harp, the player can slide their finger across the strings, quickly playing the scale (or on pedal harp even [[arpeggio]]s such as C{{music|flat}}-D-E{{music|sharp}}-F-G{{music|sharp}}-A{{music|flat}}-B). [[Wind instrument|Wind]], [[Brass instrument|brass]], and fretted-stringed-instrument players can perform an extremely rapid chromatic scale (e.g., sliding up or down a string quickly on a fretted instrument).

Arpeggio effects (likewise named glissando) are also obtained by bowed strings (playing [[Harmonic#Harmonics on stringed instruments|harmonics]]) and brass, especially the [[French horn|horn]].<ref>Del Mar, Norman: ''Anatomy of the Orchestra'' (University of California Press 1981). String harmonic glissandi are discussed pp. 132-33; horn glissandi pp. 252-254</ref>