You may be correct, but I certainly read the
definitions as meaning "glockenspiel with a
keyboard." I think the modern tendency to refer
to mallet instruments as "keyboards" simply
clouds the issue, whether it is organologically
correct or not.
John
At 10:43 AM +0200 10/8/06, Daniel Wolf wrote:
This table is problematic in that it doesn't
distinguish between an instrument with the bars
laid-out like a keyboard and an instrument
actually played via a keyboard. The modern
"orchestral bells"/""glockenspiel"/(and their
band world near-equivalent, the "bell lyra") is
laid-out like a keyboard (but in German-speaking
countries, not always in the 7+5 Halberstadt
arrangement) and played with mallets, and is
used in some important repertoire: Steve Reich
and Morton Feldman, for example.
John Howell wrote:
On the contrary, three of the terms mean a
keyboard instrument as the single or one
possible meaning.
-Cut-
OK, I just looked it up in A Practical Guide
to Percussion Terminology" by Russ
Girsberger, and it's just as complicated as I
thought it would be.
Glöckchen: tubular bells; chimes
Glocke: bell
Glocken: chimes
Glockenartig: like a bell; bell-like
Glockenplatten: bell plates
Glockenspiel: Keyboard percussion instrument
with steel or aluminum bars. In printed
music, it may refer to a Bell Lyra, as used
in German military music, or Orchestra Bells,
as used in concert music.
Glockenspiel à clavier: (Fr.) keyboard glockenspiel
Glockenspiel mit tasten: keyboard glockenspiel.
Whew!!!!!
John
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