Marimba: alternatives and connections

A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which m…

To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bar…

To chant; to recite with musical tones.

A percussion cap. See under Percussion.

An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to…

That department of musical science which relates to, or treats of, the power of tones.

Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, w…

Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.

That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan…

any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental

A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give fort…

Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteent…

A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing ai…

To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly.

To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol-fa.

The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.

A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three,…