A carillon (US: /ˈkærəlɒn/ KARR-ə-lon, UK: /kəˈrɪljən/ kə-RIL-yən) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at...
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The National Carillon is a large carillon situated on Queen Elizabeth II Island in Lake Burley Griffin, central Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory...
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Campanology (section Carillons)
the whole as one musical instrument. Such collections—such as a Flemish carillon, a Russian zvon, or an English "ring of bells" used for change ringing—have...
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The Netherlands Carillon is a 127-foot (39-m) tall campanile housing a 53-bell carillon located in Arlington County, Virginia. The instrument and tower...
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Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg (category Carillons)
houses a carillon upon which concerts are periodically performed. When renovators were cleaning the angel on the spire in 1997, they found a note in a bottle...
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carillons are transposing instruments, and often transpose such that the lowest note on the keyboard is B♭ or C. There are also two mobile carillons,...
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Carillons, musical instruments of bells in the percussion family, are found on every inhabited continent. The Netherlands, Belgium, and the United States...
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Carillons, musical instruments of bells in the percussion family, are found throughout the United States. Several institutions register and count them...
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Carillons, musical instruments in the percussion family with at least 23 cast bells and played with a keyboard, are found throughout the British Isles...
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The Yale Memorial Carillon (sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Harkness Carillon) is a carillon of 54 bells in Harkness Tower at Yale University...
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approval. Fulci impulsively devised the title Sette note in nero after Sacchetti informed him that a carillon would serve as a key plot device in the story...
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Peace Tower (redirect from Peace Tower Carillon)
mechanically linked to the carillon keyboard, to create a note, a particular one on the music scale for each bell. In this way, the carillon plays similarly to...
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The flag of Carillon was flown by the troops of General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm during the Battle of Carillon, which was fought by the French and Canadian...
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Fort Ticonderoga (section Notes)
Fort Ticonderoga (/taɪkɒndəˈroʊɡə/), formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake...
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Bok Tower Gardens (category Carillons)
Tower, the gardens' attractions include the Singing Tower and its 60-bell carillon, the Bok Exedra, the Pinewood Estate now known as El Retiro, the Pine Ridge...
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Carillon de Westminster, Opus 54, No. 6, is a piece written for organ by Louis Vierne. It constitutes the sixth piece in the third suite of Vierne's four-suite...
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statistics of carillons. Some registries specialize in counting specific types of carillons. For example, the War Memorial and Peace Carillons registry counts...
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The Mafra carillons constitute the largest carillon ensemble in the world. Spanning two 50-metre-high (160 ft) towers in the Palace of Mafra, it features...
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Bourdon (bell) (category Carillons)
instrument, especially a chime or a carillon, and produces its lowest tone. As an example, the largest bell of a carillon of 64 bells, the sixth largest bell...
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Keyboard instrument (redirect from White notes)
include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal...
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"Le Carillon de Vendôme", also known as "Les Cloches de Vendôme" or "Orléans", is a French children's song dating from the 15th century. It takes its name...
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Century Tower (University of Florida) (category Carillons)
The Century Tower is a 157-foot-tall (48 m) bell tower containing a carillon in the center of the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida...
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Pedal keyboard (section Carillon)
clavichords, and carillons (church bells). The first use of pedals on a pipe organ grew out of the need to hold bass drone notes, to support the polyphonic...
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towers at night Maria Hilf by Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1530 List of carillons Notes Saint Ingenuin and Saint Albuin were bishops of Säben Abbey from the...
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Battle of Ticonderoga (1759) (redirect from Battle of Carillon (1759))
The Battle of Ticonderoga was a minor confrontation at Fort Carillon (later renamed Fort Ticonderoga) on July 26 and 27, 1759, during the French and Indian...
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popular music. In German, a carillon is also called a Glockenspiel, and in French, the glockenspiel is sometimes called a carillon. It may also be called a...
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Jacob van Eyck (category Carillon makers)
tune a carillon. Van Eyck is credited with developing the modern carillon together with the brothers in 1644, when they cast the first tuned carillon in Zutphen...
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Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (section Battle of Carillon)
of British troops amassing near the border, Montcalm left to visit Fort Carillon to inspect the defenses while the governor general, Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis...
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Flag of Quebec (section Notes)
Elphège Filiatrault, a parish priest in Saint-Jude, Quebec. Called the Carillon [fr], it resembles the modern flag except that the fleurs-de-lis are located...
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