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A line asking for a continuous slide rather than stepped notes.
Also known as: Slide marking, Port.
Portamento asks for a continuous slide between two pitches; glissando on most instruments produces a stepped run through the intervening notes. The distinction is real on a violin or a voice and impossible on a piano, which is why the two words are used loosely.
Instructs a continuous slide in pitch between two notes, without sounding the intermediate steps.
Contexts: Music
Differs from glissando, which on a keyed or fretted instrument sounds every intervening note, though the two terms are used interchangeably in practice.
Contexts: Music
A straight or slightly curved line drawn between two noteheads at different heights, sometimes with a word beside it.
Two nearly identical lines asking for different things.