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celesta::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | keyboard instrument |
Examples of celesta
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This is believed to be the first orchestral work that made use of the celesta.
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The celesta part is normally written on two bracketed staves, called a grand staff.
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The celesta was invented in 1886 by Parisianharmonium builder Auguste Mustel.
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George Gershwin included a celesta solo in the score to An American in Paris.
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Fond of the celesta, she has the ability to make the whole orchestra shimmer.
From the orlandosentinel.com
She also played piano and celesta, serving as accompanist to soloists at performances.
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She was a conspicuous presence on celesta as she provided the music's sparkling fills.
From the suntimes.com
The beauiful other wordly sound of the celesta in the dance for the Sugar Plum Fairy.
From the guardian.co.uk
Garza is so on her game in solos that she appears one with the celesta infusing her music.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- A musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard
- The celesta or celeste (pronounced) is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano (four- or five-octave) or of a large wooden music box (three-octave). ...
- (A. celestae) Aardonyx (Afrikaans aard, "earth" + Greek onux, "nail, claw") is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur. It is known from the type species Aardonyx celestae found from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa. A. ...
- Mellow-sounding instrument in which large felt hammers resembling oversize piano hammers strike tuned steel or aluminum bars. In theatre organ terminology: Chrysoglott.
- A musical instrument with a keyboard built like a Glockenspiel whereby keys activate a hammer to strike a metal plate producing bell-like tones. Augueste Mustel patented it in Paris in 1886 after his father constructed it.
- A small keyboard instrument in which hammers strike on steel plates, producing an ethereal bell-like sound.
- Percussion instrument consisting of tuned steel bars connected to a keyboard.
