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Articulation in singing is produced by such techniques as portamento or the taking of breaths, and by the treatment of vowels and consonants.
In these 1949 recordings the strings are much more forward and emphasized, though the brass is certainly there, and the portamento utilized more.
I have a very strong feeling in the Andante Cantabile of the players only just resisting the temptation to portamento slides between the notes.
This also affects the soli which all require an absolutely clean portamento and a beautifully crafted rubato.
A previously neutral note might gain an accent or portamento stress as the mood momentarily wakens into passion or leans into languor.
The rubato and portamento emphasize the Symphonie's Fantastique, grotesque side.
Like the original instrument, the Minimonsta's portamento is Time Constant, which means that glides are faster over larger intervals.
No need for angst here, just blissed-out portamento and sun-warmed simplicity.
String players slid expressively from one note to the next — portamento, the style was called — in imitation of the slide of the voice.
With the speed set to zero, unnaturally rapid corrections eliminate portamento, the musical term for the slide between two pitches.
In terms of sound, the Wasp was far from a toy and featured multi-mode filters, resonance, portamento and three stage envelope generators.
If you want the portamento setting specified for the program of the timbre to be forced off, set this parameter to Off.
From portamento to the conception of dynamics, everything still remains to be rediscovered and, above all, tried out.
Melodyne indicates a portamento transition by means of a blue line linking the two notes affected.
When legato is off, the envelope retriggers every time a new note is played, and the portamento is always applied.
The portamento that determines the length of the portamento and the range.
With a value of 000, there will be no portamento.
When legato is on, the envelope retriggers only when the new note does not overlap with the previous one, and the portamento triggers only on overlapping notes.
It speaks for the intelligent style of the Orlando Trio that the disciplined pastel colouring was not dimmed by a heavy string sound, a hefty portamento or any coquettish special extras.
Pitches, tone colours, vibrato intensities, envelope shapes, and portamento of the four tones were encoded in binary form on a perforated paper roll.
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It is even likely that she will improve her knowledge of portamento while she is washing dishes.
The tones must also follow each other cleanly, unless the character of the music makes the use of portamento desirable.
You, who know what is meant by singing with portamento, would find rare satisfaction in her singing of it.
The portamento being an embellishment that pertains to the cantabile, it is very little used in declamatory singing.
Does she overdo the use of portamento, messa di voce, and such devices?
It should be practiced very slowly at first, and with portamento.
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