XYLOPHONE

zīˈləfōn [Gr.,=wood sound], musical instrument having graduated wooden slabs that are struck by the player with small, hard mallets. The slabs are usually arranged like a keyboard, and the range varies from two to four octaves. Since the 1920s the xylophone has been equipped with tubular resonators and thus is essentially identical with the marimba. The latter, however, is deeper and larger, is often played by two or more players, and is struck with soft mallets.

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books on: Xylophone  - 583 results

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The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia: Indexes
Book by A. D. Trendall, Alexander Cambitoglou; Clarendon Press, 1982
Subjects: Vases, Greco-Roman, Vases--Italy--Puglia
...235-58. Eva Keuls, " The Apulian xylophone ", in AJA 83 , 1979, pp. 476-7...number of Apulian devices, such as the "xylophone" and the naiskos, which now begin to...Campanian vases of the naiskos and the "xylophone", both of which are essentially Apulian...
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The Music of Central Africa: An Ethnomusicological Study: Former French Equatorial Africa, the Former Belgian Congo, Ruanda-Urundi, Uganda, Tanganyika
Book by Rose Brandel; Martinus Nijhoff, 1961
Subjects: Ethnomusicology, Music--Africa, Central--History And Criticism
...11. Bapere xylophone Cent-Frequency Chart 2 133...32. Yaswa xylophones Cent-Frequency Chart 7 187...40. Banyoro xylophone Cent-Frequency Chart 11 208...
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Thesaurus of Orchestral Devices
Book by Gardner Read; Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1953
Subjects: Instrumentation And Orchestration, Musical Instruments
...Bells, Glockenspiel, Marimba, Vibraphone, and Xylophone 173 1 Glissandi 2...J. de T. Timbres Tbres. Xylophone Xy i lofono Xylophone Xylophon Xylph., Xyl. Xil., Xyl., Xf...
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The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945
Book by Gunther Schuller; Oxford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Jazz--1931-1940--History And Criticism, Swing (Music)--History And Criticism
...conscious of those of Bill Challis and Lennie Hayton with Paul Whiteman (with whose orchestra Norvo had been featured as xylophone soloist) and, of course, Ellingtons. Norvo urged Sauter not only to write linearly and contrapuntually, concepts foreign...
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Improvisation: Methods and Techniques for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators, and Students
Book by Tony Wigram; Jessica Kingsley, 2004
Subjects: Improvisation (Music), Music Therapy
...conga 85 5 4.4 Matching: client on xylophone, therapist on metallophone 86 4.5 5...metallophone 78 3.7 CD 16 Drum accompanying a xylophone 78 4.1 1 CD 17 Mirroring: drum + piano...cymbals, djembes) and pitched percussion (xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels). 1.2...
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journal articles on: Xylophone  - 69 results

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The African Matrix in Jazz Harmonic Practices
Journal article by Gerhard Kubik; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 25, 2005
Subjects: African American music--Criticism and interpretation, African American music--Evaluation, African Americans--Criticism and interpretation, African Americans--Evaluation, African Americans--Music, Jazz music--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz music--Evaluation, Jazz--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz--Evaluation
...evidence is the instrumental polyphony on xylophones and harps that developed in the precolonial...of Contemporary English (1990, 1010). Xylophone players in Africa often transfer visual...each hand, they strike two keys on the xylophone that are separated by one key and then...
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Bebop: A Case in Point
Journal article by Gerhard Kubik; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 25, 2005
Subjects: African American musicians--Political activity, African American musicians--Social aspects, Bebop--History, Bebop--Social aspects, United States--Social aspects
...timbre, quite unlike those on African xylophones or lamellophones, in which each member...just as much as the northern Mozambican xylophone players listen "to the wood" of their...example in the Cuambo and Khokola mambila xylophone music that I recorded in Mozambique and...
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Baakisimba: Constructing Gender of the Baganda (of Uganda) through Music and Dance
Journal article by Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza; Women & Music, 2001
Subjects: Dancing--Uganda, Interpersonal relations--Uganda, Music and society--Uganda, Sex differences--Uganda, Uganda--Social aspects
...1968. "The Miko Modal System of Kiganda Xylophone Music." Ph.D. diss. Los Angeles: University...Routledge. Cooke, Peter. 1970. "Ganda Xylophone Music: Another Approach." African Music...Gehard. 1960. "The Structure of Kiganda Xylophone Music." African Music 2, no. 3:131-65...
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Construct Validation of Two Music-based Assessments for People with Dementia
Journal article by Anne W. Lipe, Elizabeth York, Eric Jensen; Journal of Music Therapy, Vol. 44, 2007
Subjects: Ability, Alzheimers disease, Clinical medicine, Data collection, Gender differences, Music therapy, Skills, Studies, Therapists
...of verbal, singing, melodic (playing a xylophone), and rhythmic response tasks, plus one...instruments or reproducing melothes on a xylophone), provide information about cognitive...accompanying instrument, rhythm instruments, xylophone, visual stimulus material) to carry out...
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Air Youth: Performance, Violence and the State in Cameroon
Journal article by Nicolas Argenti; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 4, 1998
Subjects: Air Youth--Management, Cameroon--Crime, Violence research--Analysis, Youth--Crime
...in a counter-clockwise circle around a xylophone, the new styles masquerades have added...the frequently switching rhythms of the xylophone and drum ensemble, and do not move in...masquerades (though most of the latter have a xylophone as well). Finally, they have a leader...
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magazine articles on: Xylophone  - 51 results

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Newhallville Turns It around; a Tale of Two Schools - II
Magazine article by Margaret Spillane; The Nation, Vol. 255, September 21, 1992
Subjects: Elementary schools--Management, New Haven, Connecticut, Schools
...drop onto the curved wooden keys of the xylophones before them. Their teacher, Margaret...equally solemn alertness, striking her own xylophone while her students match her note for...hands me the mallets and leads me to a xylophone. With reluctance I begin to play, but...
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Like a Prayer: Sufjan Stevens's 'Seven Swans'
Magazine article by Grant Gallicho; Commonweal, Vol. 132, September 9, 2005
Subjects: Contemporary Christian music--Evaluation, Singers--Performances, Stevens, Sufjan--Performances
...building to a layered mix of horns, drums, guitar, keyboard, and xylophone--that I had barely noticed the words. But there they were...is the song. New instruments appear: a bass guitar, horn, xylophone--and the piece takes on the air of a Taize chant. "Lost in...
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That's Entertainment
Magazine article by Stephen Banfield; Musical Times, Vol. 141, Summer 2000
...gliding grace of ballroom steps represented by sumptuous strings and horns the ineffable wellbeing of chattering flutes and xylophone, dancing rings round the tune: chic, urbane and opulent, yet cheeky, relaxed and utterly stylish. The musical equivalent of...
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Integrating Music and Mathematics in the Elementary Classroom
Magazine article by Gretchen L. Johnson, R. Jill Edelson; Teaching Children Mathematics, Vol. 9, April 2003
Subjects: Children--Education, Curriculum development--Methods, Curriculum planning--Methods, Mathematics education--Curricula, Mathematics education--Methods, Mathematics--Study and teaching, Music--Study and teaching, Music--Usage, Teacher participation in curriculum planning, Teachers
...expand the concept of serial order Use a xylophone, tone bells, or a piano to demonstrate...While the children crouch down, use a xylophone or piano to play a higher tone with each...chimes, xylophone, celesta...
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New Rawsthorne for Old
Magazine article by John Amis; Musical Opinion, Vol. 131, July 2008
...dreamland with a hint of spice. Harper helps to invoke the atmosphere with some subtle but simple flavouring, mostly flute and xylophone. If the man from Porlock interrupted Coleridge it was a bomb from Germany that interred Rawsthorne. On the night that the...
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newspaper articles on: Xylophone  - 215 results

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Xylophone Schoolgirl's One Boast Too Far . . . Judge Halts Sex Case after She Is Heard Telling Father: 'I'll Get Compensation and Then Give You Loads'
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 22, 2007
Subjects: Sexual abuse
Xylophone Schoolgirls One Boast Too Far . . . Judge Halts Sex Case...made lurid claims that he told her to keep playing the xylophone as she performed sex acts on him - so that anyone passing...sex acts on each other. She would carry on playing the xylophone so anyone outside would think she was still practising...
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PLAY XYLOPHONE AS WE HAVE SEX; TEACHER TO GIRL, 15: Court Hears of 1 Yr Affair
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 10, 2007
Subjects: Musicians, Teachers
PLAY XYLOPHONE AS WE HAVE SEX; TEACHER TO GIRL, 15...sex acts on him while she played the xylophone at school, a court was told yesterday...other and "she would carry on playing the xylophone so anyone outside would think she was...
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PLAY XYLOPHONE AS WE HAVE SEX; TEACHER TO GIRL, 15: Court Hears of 1yr Affair
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 10, 2007
Subjects: Musicians, Teachers
PLAY XYLOPHONE AS WE HAVE SEX; TEACHER TO GIRL, 15...sex acts on him while she practised the xylophone at school, a court was told yesterday...other and "she would carry on playing the xylophone so anyone outside would think she was...
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TEACHER TO GIRL, 15: PLAY XYLOPHONE AS WE HAVE SEX; Court Hears of 1yr Affair
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 10, 2007
Subjects: Musicians, Teachers
TEACHER TO GIRL, 15: PLAY XYLOPHONE AS WE HAVE SEX; Court Hears of 1yr...acts on him while she practised the xylophone at school, a court was told yesterday...and "she would carry on playing the xylophone so anyone outside would think she...
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From Peruvian Guinea Pig Farmers to Xylophone Lessons for Prisoners - the Crackpot Causes They've Wasted Your Money On
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 16, 2005
From Peruvian Guinea Pig Farmers to Xylophone Lessons for Prisoners - the Crackpot Causes Theyve Wasted...000 grant to teach prisoners how to use Indonesian gongs and xylophones, pounds sterling30,000 for a civil servant to promote cultural...
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encyclopedia articles on: Xylophone  - 7 results

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Xylophone
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
XYLOPHONE zi l fon Gr.,=wood sound, musical instrument having graduated wooden slabs that are struck by the player with small...mallets. The slabs are usually arranged like a keyboard, and the range varies from two to four octaves. Since the 1920s the xylophone has been equipped with tubular resonators and thus is essentially identical with the marimba. The latter, however, is...
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Marimba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MARIMBA see xylophone . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Percussion Instrument
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...triangle . Among the percussion instruments used in the West are the bell , the celesta , the glockenspiel , the xylophone (and similar marimba), and the Caribbean steel drum. In general, percussion instruments are not tuned by construction; pitch...
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Glockenspiel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...instead of bars, and the vibraphone, which has resonating tubes beneath its bars that vibrate using electricity. See also xylophone . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
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Rosewood
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...fragrances and soaps. Honduras rosewood ( D. stevensonii ) is now used chiefly in percussion instruments (e.g., the marimba and the xylophone) where Brazilian rosewood was formerly employed. Among Old World species are the East Indian rosewood, or black rosewood...
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