glockenspiel
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- noun
- /ˈɡlɑːkənˌʃpiːl/
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glockenspiel
- During the performance, the glockenspiel added a beautiful, ringing quality to the orchestral arrangement.
Examples
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A performance of melody with accompaniment (usually one person plays the melody on a band instrument or piano/glockenspiel while the others play components of the various chords) concludes this simple compositional activity, which always proves to be a successful, hands-on opportunity for all students.
Academic text (1999) -
A glockenspiel, as defined by a celebrity in a Season 39 episode, is a musical instrument that looks a lot like a xylophone, but a xylophone has wooden bars and a glockenspiel has metal bars.
Academic text (2015) -
The game directions call for each child to take a card and play the printed melody on a glockenspiel.
Academic text (1997) -
I teach my students to put their mallets on their shoulders when waiting behind a xylophone or glockenspiel.
Academic text (2007) -
Next to the two boys, Jon has been quietly repeating an ascending stepwise pattern on a glockenspiel.
Academic text (1999) -
Sufjan Stevens has some of the lushest, twee-est, most glockenspiel-and-banjo-y instrumentation you'll ever hear.
Blog text (9) -
There was an old guy wearing woolly white earmuffs, thudding a bass drum with a matching woolly mallet, and a fellow with a beard off a Smith Brothers cough-drop box playing an ice-cold-looking glockenspiel.
Fiction book (1996) -
The musician expertly played a lively melody on the glockenspiel, delighting the audience with its bright sound.
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She learned to play the glockenspiel in music class, enjoying the way the notes resonated when struck.
Synonyms
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A musical instrument with metal bars that you strike to make notes
A set of metal bars on a frame played with small hammers to make clear, ringing sounds
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Etymology
Glockenspiel comes from German words Glocken meaning 'bell' and spiel meaning 'play'. It originally meant 'bell play', which helps you remember that this musical instrument makes bright, bell-like sounds when you hit its metal bars.