How To Use Glockenspiel In A Sentence
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Sure, it had a fine array of percussion - timpani, snare drum, bass drum, gong, glockenspiel - but they were just there for effect.
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On the stand was a whole new group of musicians: harpists, lyrists, players of the flageolet and dulcimer, two men sweating over glockenspiels, a group equipped with zithers and citharas and sitars, three women playing nose-flutes, two men with shofars, and a tall, blond man playing a clarino trumpet.
Pagan Passions
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Although the band started out playing dishpans, accordions, and glockenspiel, they eventually settled on a more traditional sound.
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The arrangements are full of interesting sounds like music box, berimbau and glockenspiel without ever over-egging the pudding or resorting to gratuitous novelty.
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With the chime of the glockenspiel and the slow pull of the violin the band began and invited us to witness a cavalcade of sound and images.
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Sure, it had a fine array of percussion - timpani, snare drum, bass drum, gong, glockenspiel - but they were just there for effect.
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String groupings of violins and cellos swell throughout and voice aching, mournful melodies, the piano occasionally joined by a celeste or glockenspiel.
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They meet up in Torino without much of a plan and immerse themselves in the studio with traditional rock instruments plus a bunch of theremins and glockenspiels.
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The Bruce Springsteen Glockenspiel Addendum takes the few tracks on Born to Run which don’t contain glockenspiel, and adds the missing instrument.
South by Southwest « Squares of Wheat
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The glockenspiel is a percussion instrument consisting of tuned steel bars that are hit with a hammer.
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They meet up in Torino without much of a plan and immerse themselves in the studio with trad rock instruments plus a bunch of theremins and glockenspiels.
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* Why does "glockenspiel" mean "bell play", if there aren't any bells on a glockenspiel?
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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Over an aching vocal performance, Tipton swaddles Nilsson all in bells, oboes, glockenspiels, blurted brass, pizzicato'd violins, and xylophones, bidding an elongated adieu to pop's previously ornate design.
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A marimba also is essentially a set of wooden bars, while the glockenspiel and vibraphone involve metal bars.
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Sure, it had a fine array of percussion - timpani, snare drum, bass drum, gong, glockenspiel - but they were just there for effect.
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For all that, the 11 lavishly gifted "stars", plus actor Paul McGann reading out the instruments and adding a certain low-key sensuality to the word "glockenspiel", were a revelation.
Evening Standard - Home
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There's too much sweetness overall, and a couple of unnecessary instrumentals rife with resonant pianos and tinkling glockenspiels.
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The glockenspiel - not to be confused with a xylophone - is the most well-known of the metallophone family of instruments.
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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In the 19th century glockenspiels were often made of glass under the name ‘harmonica’ or ‘armonica’, as used by Saint-Saëns in Le Carnaval des animaux for ‘Oiseaux’.
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Klantze spun about sharply, like a mechanical marionette on a glockenspiel, and marched off.
THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
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With the chime of the glockenspiel and the slow pull of the violin the band began and invited us to witness a cavalcade of sound and images.
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Flitting fitfully from discordant strings and hectic glockenspiels to lean oboe solos, Rota's masterpiece is an unstable symphony to the teeming metropolis.
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He is an equally adept performer on the harmonica, also on the harmonium, euphonium, pandemonium, saxophone, vibraphone, dictaphone, glockenspiel and catarrh. . .
Storyteller
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The arrangements are spare yet sky-wide, occasionally visited by banjos, accordions, glockenspiels, and theremin.
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String groupings of violins and cellos swell throughout and voice aching, mournful melodies, the piano occasionally joined by a celeste or glockenspiel.
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Mr. Herman sits surrounded by 20 percussion instruments, including two timpani, vibraphones, glockenspiel, chimes, cymbals and sleigh bells.
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Along for the ride are a battered old piano, an oboe, a glockenspiel and a banjo.
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In lesson time pupils learn to play ‘classroom’ instruments such as the glockenspiel or xylophone, and there are 65 teachers who go out and deliver tuition for other instruments.
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Percussion plays a major role, particularly what Grainger called ‘tuneful percussion,’ chimes, glockenspiels, tuned gongs, celestas, xylophones, and so on.
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With liberal use of glockenspiel, harmonium and mouth organ, it sounds like he found his instruments in a playgroup toy box.
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A marimba also is essentially a set of wooden bars, while the glockenspiel and vibraphone involve metal bars.
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The album featured a liberal use of theremin, glockenspiel and organ; its far-off vibe could be bombastic and quaint, earthy and robotic at the same time.
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Webern's original intention for op.24 was to write a piano concerto, and the preliminary sketches are for a large and colourful orchestra, including mandolin, glockenspiel, celesta, harp and piccolo.
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Indeed this and the glockenspiel are a superb tool that helps distinguish them and create their quite unique sound and style.
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But through the wide streets and through the narrow ones, under the archways into the market gardens, across the bridge and into the square where the "glockenspiel" played its old tinkling tune, everywhere the Citadel looked down and always The Rat walked on in his dream.
The Lost Prince
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Instead, the record reveals the true force of his songs: bouncy, repetitive chamber pop nuggets, gilt with glockenspiels, tambourines and evocative sacred-sexual imagery.
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This had all the school's musical instruments on it: a xylophone, a handful of glockenspiels, some woodblocks, a few chime bars, about four very sorry-looking drums, and about 5 million triangles.
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The songs are accompanied by guitar, mandolin, piano and the occasional glockenspiel and there is a good variety of each.
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The former work is rather seductive, thanks in part to the coos of the vocalists and also because of the exotic tones of the marimbas, glockenspiels, and metallophone.
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The glockenspiel was a big hit early on because composers always wanted to write for bells, and there was no practical way to do that.
Disquiet » The Public Record
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Rather than tinkering with tradition, he expands upon it with computer-generated hums and bleeps, tambourines and glockenspiel, warming the stark acoustic sound.
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They certainly haven't ignored technology, but the use of instruments like banjo, accordion, glockenspiel and pump organ enhances the weathered folk feel of the music.
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The glockenspiel was a bit hit early on because composers always wanted to write for bells, and there was no practical way to do that.
Disquiet » The Public Record
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More than a century later, president James Verdin runs a $20-million company that produces clocks, bell and clock towers, glockenspiels, and - in a nod to the 21st century - digital electronic carillons.
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The orchestration is again brilliant, with particularly effective use of trumpets, pizzicato, string moto perpetuo, harp, and glockenspiel.
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An F# major mode is set out in a layered contrapuntal texture, piccolo and violins marking the fast crotchet beat while glockenspiel, celesta and sampler cut across this with triplet rhythms and a few dissonant pitches.
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The music for harp, vibraphone, xylophone, bell-like glockenspiel and cimbalom often possesses the textural delicacy and sound color associated with the music of Mr. Boulez since the premiere in 1955 of "Le Marteau sans Maitre" ( "The Hammer Without a Master"), which brought him to public attention.
Both Challenging and Cool
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Beneath it, there's a sense that the ever-present vibraphone and glockenspiel are tapping out a secret language.
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From there I will add both real instruments that I can play pretty well like mandolin, lap steel, Irish bouzouki, various electric guitars, harmonica, and glockenspiel as well as virtual instruments in Logic like organ, piano, strings, and synthesizers that are played via a MIDI keyboard.
20 Questions with SciFi Songster John Anealio
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Percussion plays a major role, particularly what Grainger called ‘tuneful percussion,’ chimes, glockenspiels, tuned gongs, celestas, xylophones, and so on.
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For her second solo CD, the local multi-instrumentalist has produced a grand record featuring everything from glockenspiel and saw to accordion, and even tuba.
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Only the brightest sparks musically got the real instruments, such as the glockenspiels, i.e. those instruments upon which you could actually play more than one note.
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The Queens group woodshedded its melodic songs at an abandoned farm colony, and the constant presence of banjos, glockenspiels and xylophones lends a quaint ambience that's far removed from the digital hum of high-tech gadgetry.
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Beneath it, there's a sense that the ever-present vibraphone and glockenspiel are tapping out a secret language.
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Webern's original intention for op.24 was to write a piano concerto, and the preliminary sketches are for a large and colourful orchestra, including mandolin, glockenspiel, celesta, harp and piccolo.
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I vomited at the thought of one more weirdie-beardy, ski-cap-wearing indie band shoving a glockenspiel in my face (and can we knock it off and just call it a "xylophone" maybe already?), and at first listen I'll have to confess at having no great jones to have another round of this.
Glide Magazine - Music :: Culture :: Life
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The verses are doused in glockenspiel and well-blended synth and recorder, while the chorus positively soars on electric piano ostinatos and fluid bass.
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Once dismissed as the goofiest, most annoying musical instrument this side of the glockenspiel, the banjo has recently crawled back out of the crypt to which most Americans assigned it a generation ago.
The Only Good Banjo Is a Dead Banjo
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Have a good listen right up to the part where the glockenspiel comes in.
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They meet up in Torino without much of a plan and immerse themselves in the studio with trad rock instruments plus a bunch of theremins and glockenspiels.
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The music becomes a dense, intricate concoction enriched by electronic elements, melodica, glockenspiel, accordion, trumpet, viola, pump organ, and banjo.
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The polyglot orchestra backing her up plays world music from everywhere and nowhere that incorporates Middle Eastern clarinet, European glockenspiel and other mellifluous sounds in addition to Mexican mariachi guitar.
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The former work is rather seductive, thanks in part to the coos of the three female vocalists and also because of the exotic tones of the marimbas, glockenspiels, and metallophone.
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After making a demo in his London flat on a stereo tape-deck, he hawked his melding of many instruments (glockenspiel, farfisa organ, flageolet etc) around record companies.
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The music began in slightly oriental fashion, then filled out with strange scratching noises, the sound of a glockenspiel being played with a cello bow and semi-random percussion.
