Definition of Glockenspiel

1. Noun. A percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers.


Definition of Glockenspiel

1. n. An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.

Definition of Glockenspiel

1. Noun. a musical instrument of the percussion family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch. ¹

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Definition of Glockenspiel

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glockenspiel

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

Literary usage of Glockenspiel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"glockenspiel. A series of small bars of steel or bronze, so placed that they can be struck by a small hammer, and tuned either diatonically or chromatically ..."

2. A treatise upon modern instrumentation and orchestration: Containing an by Hector Berlioz, Mary Cowden Clarke (1858)
"The glockenspiel. Mozart has written, in his opera of the ... an important part for a keyed instrument that he calls glockenspiel (set of bells), ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The oldest form of glockenspiel, seen in illuminated MSS. of the middle ages, ... The pyramid-shaped glockenspiel, formerly used in the orchestra for simple ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The oldest form of glockenspiel, seen in illuminated MSS. of the middle ages, ... The pyramid-shaped glockenspiel, formerly used in the orchestra for simple ..."

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