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51sarabande — Stately processional dance in triple metre popular in the French court and throughout Europe in the 17th–18th century. Of Spanish or Mexican origin, it began as a vigorous dance, set to lively music and castanets, for a double line of couples. At …
52Latin American dance — Introduction dance traditions of Mexico, Central America, and the portions of South America and the Caribbean colonized by the Spanish and the Portuguese. These traditions reflect the distinctive mixtures of indigenous (Amerindian), African, and …
53Rondalla — Valencian folk ensemble La Rondalla de la Costera performing live in Dénia The rondalla is an ensemble of stringed instruments played with the plectrum or pick and generally known as plectrum instruments. It originated in Medieval Spain,… …
54Dark Was the Night — For the original song by Blind Willie Johnson, see Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground. For why the night sky is dark, see Olbers paradox. Dark Was the Night Compilation album for …
55Directly struck idiophones — Directly stuck idiophones is one of the categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel Sachs system of musical instrument classification. The idiophones found in this category produce sound resulting from a direct action of the… …
56κρεμβαλιάζουσι — κρεμβαλιάζω mark time with castanets pres part act masc/neut dat pl (attic epic doric ionic) κρεμβαλιάζω mark time with castanets pres ind act 3rd pl (attic epic doric ionic) …
57ἐυκρόταλον — εὐκρόταλος accompanied by castanets masc/fem acc sg (epic) εὐκρόταλος accompanied by castanets neut nom/voc/acc sg (epic) …
58percussion instrument — noun a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another • Syn: ↑percussive instrument • Hypernyms: ↑musical instrument, ↑instrument • Hyponyms: ↑bones, ↑castanets, ↑ …
59cas|ta|net — «KAS tuh NEHT», noun. one of a pair of instruments held in the hand and clicked together to beat time for dancing or music. Castanets are made of hard wood or ivory and shaped like small cymbals. »We heard the click of castanets and the butter… …
60Castanea vesce — Chestnut Chest nut, n. [For chesten nut; OE. chestein, chesten, chastein, chestnut, fr. AS. cisten in cistenbe[ a]m chestnut tree, influenced by OF. chastaigne, F. ch[^a]taigne, both the AS. and the F. words coming from L. castanea a chestnut, Gr …
