Variations
One-handed double glissandi are sometimes executed at intervals other than an octave, the most common being sixths. Franz Liszt's piano transcription of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique contains, in an ossia (optional replacement measure) in the finale, a glissando in sixths played upward with the right hand. The Alborada del gracioso from Maurice Ravel's Miroirs contains glissandi in thirds and fourths in one hand.
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