Definition of Glockenspiels

1. Noun. (plural of glockenspiel) ¹

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Definition of Glockenspiels

1. glockenspiel [n] - See also: glockenspiel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glockenspiels

globus hystericus
globus major
globus pallidus
globus pallidus necrosis
globy
glocal
glocalisation
glocalization
glochid
glochidia
glochidiate
glochidium
glochids
glockenspiel
glockenspiels (current term)
glode
glodes
gloeocystidium
glogg
gloggs
gloire
gloires
glom
glom on
glom onto
glomal
glomalean
glomaleans
glomalin

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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