xylophone
xilofone
definition
noun
It is a simple ballad with a choirboy singing a melody over a xylophone and soft string orchestral backing.
a musical instrument played by striking a row of wooden bars of graduated length with one or more small wooden or plastic mallets.
translation of 'xylophone'
noun
xilofone
example
It is a simple ballad with a choirboy singing a melody over a 'xylophone' and soft string orchestral backing.
She played the tambourine, the 'xylophone' , and the harmonica, all to our swooning hearts' delight.
Although I guessed that they didn't have their usual large scale entourage, the band was fleshed out nicely with an electric cello, violin, 'xylophone' , bass, drums, guitars and various vintage synths.
Jim, a pupil of Smithy Bridge School, is not only a highly accomplished drummer owning his own drum kit, but also plays the 'xylophone' , timpani, piano and accordion.
Percussion is composed of sleigh bells, tambourine, 'xylophone' and kettle drums.
Here the group combines trombone, a simplistic guitar line, and what sounds like either a marimba or a 'xylophone' .
On Monoke, Chantler was using electronic devices to treat piano, guitar, 'xylophone' and local Japanese instruments and arranging his sounds into complex structures.
In fact, for the first hour or so I was wondering why the 'xylophonist' wasn't in Arcade Fire.
According to our research, the instrument was probably manned by a Paul Thardo, who was the 'xylophonist' with the Harley Sadler troupe.
In ‘The Pulse’, for example, Kalahari drums and 'xylophones' provide the backbeat for an urban rap narrative.
From 1917 to 1919 he was a drummer and 'xylophonist' with Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orchestra and recorded and performed on Broadway.
Over an aching vocal performance, Tipton swaddles Nilsson all in bells, oboes, glockenspiels, blurted brass, pizzicato'd violins, and 'xylophones' , bidding an elongated adieu to pop's previously ornate design.
In the drain, hidden by foliage, ducks clacked a quacky, 'xylophonic' tune.
In a jazz band, the 'xylophonist' nearly always gets to play a solo.
A thick gush of guitar and 'xylophonic' pluck, the vocals are pushed up front for the first time.
By letting Declan use a range of musical instruments - everything from drums, 'xylophones' and bongos to the piano and even his own voice - Angela enabled him to learn to communicate again.
In the studio control room, Composer Gillis watched the struggling 'xylophonist' , whispered to a companion: ‘Poor guy.’
They used one of his numbers to open last year called ‘Blue Midnight’ and featured their excellent 'xylophonist' as soloist before rounding things off with ‘Shine As the Light’
Dwarfed by a large screen on which there are projections of singing puppets and mind-numbing flash visuals, Manitoba bashes away on dual drum kits, keyboards, 'xylophones' , melodicas and stringless guitars.
One of the most widely known of the 'xylophonists' in the 1920's was George Hamilton Green.
It's soft female harmonies layered on top of tinkling bells, 'xylophones' and other gentle, celestial sounds.
The cozy empathy of those loopy, repetitive guitars and 'xylophones' envelops you, wraps you in tenderness, gives you the quiet strength to face all the hoarse pain of the world again.
They were to be accompanied by two grand pianos played by musicians, as well as three 'xylophones' , four bass drums, a gong, three aeroplane propellers, seven electric bells and a siren.
The entertainment is firmly in the hands, or mallets of master 'xylophonist' Ian who leads the orchestra.
First the 'xylophonic' tinkering, then the thunderous drums, instantly knock you out.
Marimba players, 'xylophonists' and other percussionists will be spotlighted as soloists on Handel's ‘Concerto No.5 in F.’
Everybody who knows anything about xylophone knows you are not only the greatest living 'xylophonist' , but also the greatest xylophonist who has ever lived.
During the funeral ritual, every phrase the 'xylophonist' plays has literal meaning in the Dagara language.
A war of words, clash of syllables, 'xylophonic' weapons drawn, engagement thence decided, arrows slung, striped with ‘shan't’ and ‘whilst.’
Left behind are dry nipping ambient winds and sleepy-eyed guitars like so many tattered articles of clothing and in their place emerge woolly layers of banjo, children's 'xylophones' , trumpets and home-recorded toy pianos.
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