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Definition of Glockenspiels
1. glockenspiel [n] - See also: glockenspiel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glockenspiels
Literary usage of Glockenspiels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"... church bells in the orchestra, since it preserves the dignity of the atmosphere,
which is destroyed by the triviality of all glockenspiels and tubes. ..."
2. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"... of the atmosphere, which is destroyed by the triviality of all glockenspiels
and tubes. There have, however, recently been much larger and deeper steel ..."
3. Music After the Great War, and Other Studies by Carl Van Vechten (1915)
"... tuba, and two cornets besides the usual two trumpets; two harps, two glockenspiels,
a celesta, a pianoforte (this part is very important), and the whole ..."
4. Pamphlets (1891)
"Drums and tambourines; cymbals, triangles, gongs, castanets, " bones. ' Bells,
chimes and peals. Bell-ringers' instruments. Musical glasses. glockenspiels ..."
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