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glissando

Usually marked by a squiggly line in the music, a glissando is an effect in which a musician makes one note 'slide' into another.

A trombone player performs a glissando by moving the slide without tonguing.

A piano player performs a gliss by dragging his or her fingers along the keys.

A harpist drags his or her fingers along the strings on a harp to glissando.

A guitarist will pluck a note, and while the string is still vibrating, he or she will slide their finger along the neck.

A string player glisses similarly to a guitarist, but instead of plucking they will play a note with their bow.

A brass player that isn't a trombonist or a woodwind player will simply play a chromatic scale between the two notes.

by aflatharmonicminor May 19, 2014

Arthropod

Arthropods (phylum Arthropoda) are members of a large phylum of animals. The word "arthropoda" means jointed legged, so evidently all arthropods are jointed legged. All arthropods also have exoskeletons made primarily of a hard protein called chitin. Arthropods are grouped into the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and myriapods. Insects are a class of arthropod with three body segments - the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. Arachnids and crustaceans have the head and thorax combined into one --- this is known as the cephalothorax. However, arachnids do not have antennae, but crustaceans have a set of antennae and another set of shorter antennules. Myriapods are the subphylum with the centipedes and millipedes. Their bodies are divided into A LOT OF SEGMENTS!!!!

The arthropods are almost as biologically diverse as the chordates.

by aflatharmonicminor March 29, 2015