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Definition of Carillon playing
1. Noun. Playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carillon Playing
Literary usage of Carillon playing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Music (1900)
"carillon playing in these low flat countries was not a mere mechanical work, ...
Thus it is that carillon playing has never been universal. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1880)
"Carillon-playing in these cities of the Low Countries, however, ... It may easily
be imagined that, on this system, carillon-playing was a matter of no ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889): ...edited by Sir by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1890)
"Carillon-playing in these cities of the Low Countries, however, ... It may easily
be imagined that, on this system, carillon-playing was a matter of no ..."
4. Carillons of Belgium and Holland: Tower Music in the Low Countries by William Gorham Rice (1914)
"... is of the greatest importance, for the reason that the purpose of such a
competition is to promote the art, the rapidly growing art of carillon playing. ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"A key-board attachment is usually provided, but, owing to the fact that
carillon-playing is a matter of no »mull physical exertion, it is usual to build a ..."
6. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"For further particulars as to carillon construction and carillon-playing, see
Proceedings of the Musical Association, 1904-1905, pp. 49-51. ..."
7. The English Illustrated Magazine (1890)
"... trained and accustomed to the peculiarities of bell-sound, musically employed
in carillon playing. The Belgians have been trained for centuries in this. ..."
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