Interesting that celeste is not listed, yet that's what I always hear
in Magic Flute performances and recordings. Seems OK to my ears.
Chuck
On Oct 7, 2006, at 4:42 PM, John Howell wrote:
I think it was--or at least the late 18th century equivalent.
I also suspect that the German "Glockenspiel" can actually refer to
different instruments in translation. It's possible that celesta
is one of them, as well as the mallet-played orchestra bells. What
I grew up calling a Glockenspiel is more properly a Bell Lyra,
which had to be played one-handed because the other hand had to
support it in its sling, and that's the instrument that I'd guess
was expected in turn-of-the-20th-century marches rather than the
awkward-to-march-with flat set of orchestra bells.
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
At 4:12 PM -0700 10/7/06, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Was it a celesta?
Dean
At risk of being picayune, the Glockenspiel used in Zauberflöte
is a
keyboard instrument somewhat different in sound from the modern,
played-with-mallets, orchestral and band glockenspiel.
DJW
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