Pre-History of a Commonplace #1: The Trombone Glissando

From a description of Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole--

In the penultimate bar, in the midst of a quick rush of sound across the entire orchestra, the trombones make a gloriously rude noise-- a glissando, a slide from one note to another. This effect was first popularized by Arthur Pryor, the virtuoso slide trombonist in John Philip Sousa's band, who featured it in such numbers as 'Coon Band Contest' (1900) and 'Trombone Sneeze' (1902). As it happens, the Soussa band toured all over Europe in 1900 and 1901, just before glissando effects spread through classical composition. Schoenberg and his brother-in-law Zemlinsky were the first to notate true trombone glissandos in orchestral works, in their symphonic poems Pelleas und Melisande and Die Seejungfrau, both from 1902-3.

-Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, 2007