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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 scientific name Crotalus is derived from the Greek κρόταλον, meaning "castanet". [5] The name Sistrurus is the Latinized form of the Greek word for "tail rattler" (Σείστρουρος, seistrouros ) and shares its root with the ancient Egyptian musical instrument the sistrum , a type of rattle.
Drumstick style: One spoon held concave-side against the palm, and handle jammed tight under the wrist watch belt, another in between ring and middle fingers of the left hand hitting the latter castanet style, and a third spoon in the right hand hitting both spoons in the left hand.
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 ...