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‖ portaˈmento Mus.
[It., lit. a bearing, carrying.]
A gliding or passing continuously from one pitch to another, in singing, or in playing a violin or similar instrument. Also attrib.
1771C. Burney Present State of Mus. France & Italy 18 The French voice never comes further than from the throat; there is no voce di petto, no true portamento or direction of the voice, on any of the stages. 1774J. Collier Mus. Trav. 33 Her shake was good, and her portamento admirably free from the nose, mouth, or throat. 1789Burney Hist. Mus. IV. 40 Trills, graces, and a good portamento, or direction of voice. 1889Athenæum 14 Sept. 361/2 Madame Albani..marred her efforts by excessive indulgence in the portamento style. 1926Amer. Speech I. 500/2 Two Italian words, glissando and portamento are similar in meaning to the word ‘smear’, the principal difference being that the last-named is used [in trombone-playing] for a comic effect while the others are used for carrying the voice or sliding the fingers on the violin from one stop to the next. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 11 June 461/1 The notation of the tunes [in Bartok's Hungarian Folk Music] includes a number of signs to signify graces, quarter-tones, portamento and other of the fok-singer's idiosyncracies. 1961C. Bunting in A. Baines Mus. Instruments vi. iii. 142 The cellists were trying to..achieve the eloquence and directness of the human voice... There was felt a need to ‘carry’ the music (portamento) through the intervals without a break. 1971Guardian 26 Aug. 10/1 Imrat..is a master of fluid portamento effects and of creating an illusion of sustained legato—obtained by pulling a sitar-string sideways across the frets. 1975New Yorker 20 Jan. 86/3 She oscillated in portamento between the A on the staff and the C sharp above it, swinging pendulum-true. 1976Gramophone Aug. 337/2 The sheer certainty of the vocal delivery is remarkable, with the singer's famous portamento much in evidence. |