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The Conciertino für Kastagnetten und Orchester by the German composer Helmut M. Timpelan, in cooperation with the castanet virtuoso, José de Udaeta, is another solo work for the instrument. See also the Toccata Festiva for castanets by Allan Stephenson. Sonia Amelio has also performed her castanet arrangements as a concert soloist.
The territory of Castanet has its origin of its name ("chestnut") in the Occitan language, as chestnut trees are the most common tree in the territory. [1] The château is next to the lake of Villefort, an artificial lake created behind a dam, whose company went bankrupt building the dam.
Illustration taken from the drawing of an ancient marble in Spon's Miscellanea, [1] representing one of the crotalistriae performing.. In classical antiquity, a crotalum (κρόταλον krotalon) [2] was a kind of clapper or castanet used in religious dances by groups in ancient Greece and elsewhere, including the Korybantes.
Crotal bells (Greek 'crotalon' – castanet or rattle) are various types of small bells or rattles. They were produced in various pre-Columbian cultures . In Europe they were probably made from before the early Middle Ages ; though many founders cast bells of this type, the Robert Wells bell foundry of Aldbourne, Wiltshire , produced the ...
The Crotalinae, commonly known as pit vipers, [188] [189] crotaline snakes (named for the Ancient Greek: κρόταλον krotalon [190] castanet/rattle of a rattlesnake's tail), or pit adders, are a subfamily of venomous vipers found in Eurasia and the Americas. They are distinguished by the presence of a heat-sensing pit organ located between ...
Castanet, a fictional island the player resides on in the video game Harvest Moon: Animal Parade Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Castanet .
Castanet is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. Population. Historical population; Year Pop. ±% 1962: 682 ...
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