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Definition of Glockenspiel
1. Noun. A percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers.
Definition of Glockenspiel
1. n. An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.
Definition of Glockenspiel
1. Noun. a musical instrument of the percussion family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch. ¹
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Definition of Glockenspiel
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glockenspiel
Literary usage of Glockenspiel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"Glockenspiel. A series of small bars of steel or bronze, so placed that they can
be struck by a small hammer, and tuned either diatonically or chromatically ..."
2. A treatise upon modern instrumentation and orchestration: Containing an by Hector Berlioz, Mary Cowden Clarke (1858)
"The Glockenspiel. Mozart has written, in his opera of the ... an important part
for a keyed instrument that he calls Glockenspiel (set of bells), ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The oldest form of glockenspiel, seen in illuminated MSS. of the middle ages,
... The pyramid-shaped glockenspiel, formerly used in the orchestra for simple ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The oldest form of glockenspiel, seen in illuminated MSS. of the middle ages,
... The pyramid-shaped glockenspiel, formerly used in the orchestra for simple ..."
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