The orchestra and its instruments . a flageolet withthe other hand. It originated in Provence. THE CASTANETS Castanets are generally used to accent the rhythm ofSpanish dance-music, or to give color to music of aSpanish character. They consist of two small hollowpieces of hard wood, usually of chestnut, castano inSpanish, whence their name. They are shaped some-thing like the bowl of a spoon, or a shell, and are heldtogether by a cord, the ends of which pass over thethumb and first finger of the performer. The otherthree fingers clap the two halves of the castanets to-gether. The sound is a de
The orchestra and its instruments . a flageolet withthe other hand. It originated in Provence. THE CASTANETS Castanets are generally used to accent the rhythm ofSpanish dance-music, or to give color to music of aSpanish character. They consist of two small hollowpieces of hard wood, usually of chestnut, castano inSpanish, whence their name. They are shaped some-thing like the bowl of a spoon, or a shell, and are heldtogether by a cord, the ends of which pass over thethumb and first finger of the performer. The otherthree fingers clap the two halves of the castanets to-gether. The sound is a deep, hollow click, which,although not a musical note, is not unpleasing whenheard with its appropriate music. The Spanish dancer holds a pair in each hand. Theright hand plays the full rhythm of the dance which isknown as the hembra, or female part, and the left,a simplified rhythm, on a larger pair of castanets,called the marcho, or male. Wagner uses both castanets and tambourine inthe delirious revels of the Tannhduser PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTSSYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK Hans Goetticb PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS 127 Saint-Saens calls for castanets in his opera of Samson etDalila. THE CARILLON OR GLOCKENSPIEL We sometimes hear what sounds like a chime ofbells, or one little silvery bell, pealing forth now andthen. We do not hear bells at all. The glockenspiel,or Carillon, is a series of small bars of steel, or bronze,that are struck by two small hammers. Some orches-tras use a mechanical contrivance with a keyboard,which enables the player to produce arpeggios, trillsand rapid passages that otherwise would be impossible. A toy imitation of a chime of bells was used byHandel in his oratorio of Saul and by Mozart inthe Magic Flute; but to-day steel bars are are called, however, bells, or glockenspiel Wagner made an interesting use of them in theWaltz in Act III of Die Meistersinger and also inSiegfried and in the Walkilre. In the latter work theglockenspiel is
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