Definition of xylophone in English:
xylophone
noun ˈzʌɪləfəʊnˈzaɪləˌfoʊn
A musical instrument played by striking a row of wooden bars of graduated length with one or more small wooden or plastic beaters.
木琴- By letting Declan use a range of musical instruments - everything from drums, xylophones and bongos to the piano and even his own voice - Angela enabled him to learn to communicate again.
- Although I guessed that they didn't have their usual large scale entourage, the band was fleshed out nicely with an electric cello, violin, xylophone, bass, drums, guitars and various vintage synths.
- On Monoke, Chantler was using electronic devices to treat piano, guitar, xylophone and local Japanese instruments and arranging his sounds into complex structures.
- Drums are a common instrument, as are wooden xylophones; bow harps; zithers; and the sanza, a small thumb piano fashioned from bamboo.
- The album opens with shimmering, aquatic xylophones before the drums crash in with a fractured march, and a woozy bass spills like a cloud of ink all over everything.
- The cozy empathy of those loopy, repetitive guitars and xylophones envelops you, wraps you in tenderness, gives you the quiet strength to face all the hoarse pain of the world again.
- It is a simple ballad with a choirboy singing a melody over a xylophone and soft string orchestral backing.
- Percussion plays a major role, particularly what Grainger called ‘tuneful percussion,’ chimes, glockenspiels, tuned gongs, celestas, xylophones, and so on.
- They were to be accompanied by two grand pianos played by musicians, as well as three xylophones, four bass drums, a gong, three aeroplane propellers, seven electric bells and a siren.
- She played the tambourine, the xylophone, and the harmonica, all to our swooning hearts' delight.
- Originally, it was scored for a phalanx of player pianos, buzzers, airplane propellers, xylophones, and a host of other percussion instruments.
- Dancing piano keys, stroking violins and cellos, tapping xylophones, beats, electronic elements… there's room for them all on this magnificent musical exhibition.
- Left behind are dry nipping ambient winds and sleepy-eyed guitars like so many tattered articles of clothing and in their place emerge woolly layers of banjo, children's xylophones, trumpets and home-recorded toy pianos.
- Here the group combines trombone, a simplistic guitar line, and what sounds like either a marimba or a xylophone.
- In ‘The Pulse’, for example, Kalahari drums and xylophones provide the backbeat for an urban rap narrative.
- It's soft female harmonies layered on top of tinkling bells, xylophones and other gentle, celestial sounds.
- Jim, a pupil of Smithy Bridge School, is not only a highly accomplished drummer owning his own drum kit, but also plays the xylophone, timpani, piano and accordion.
- Percussion is composed of sleigh bells, tambourine, xylophone and kettle drums.
- Over an aching vocal performance, Tipton swaddles Nilsson all in bells, oboes, glockenspiels, blurted brass, pizzicato'd violins, and xylophones, bidding an elongated adieu to pop's previously ornate design.
- Dwarfed by a large screen on which there are projections of singing puppets and mind-numbing flash visuals, Manitoba bashes away on dual drum kits, keyboards, xylophones, melodicas and stringless guitars.
Derivatives
xylophonic
- A war of words, clash of syllables, xylophonic weapons drawn, engagement thence decided, arrows slung, striped with ‘shan't’ and ‘whilst.’
- In the drain, hidden by foliage, ducks clacked a quacky, xylophonic tune.
- A thick gush of guitar and xylophonic pluck, the vocals are pushed up front for the first time.
- The version of Dropshadow's ‘Disease Fototienda’ is suffused with xylophonic scales, bent mandolins, military snares and sparkling orchestral pop, and bound with Velcro.
- First the xylophonic tinkering, then the thunderous drums, instantly knock you out.
xylophonist
- According to our research, the instrument was probably manned by a Paul Thardo, who was the xylophonist with the Harley Sadler troupe.
- Marimba players, xylophonists and other percussionists will be spotlighted as soloists on Handel's ‘Concerto No.5 in F.’
- During the funeral ritual, every phrase the xylophonist plays has literal meaning in the Dagara language.
- The serious xylophonist will find this work to be challenging, rewarding and a crowd pleaser.
- Gordon Stout affirms that, ‘Sammy Herman is one of the greatest xylophonists in our history.’
- The range of music is staggering: whistling soloists, xylophonists playing polkas, John Philip Sousa leading his band through famous marches.
- As a preamble to the actual event, the high school band performed some weird xylophone compositions, which featured a bunch of kids playing cymbals and drums… the xylophonists were great!
- In a jazz band, the xylophonist nearly always gets to play a solo.
- In the studio control room, Composer Gillis watched the struggling xylophonist, whispered to a companion: ‘Poor guy.’
- They used one of his numbers to open last year called ‘Blue Midnight’ and featured their excellent xylophonist as soloist before rounding things off with ‘Shine As the Light’
- This biopic about a legendary Thai xylophonist's beautifully shot, but that's about all that can be legitimately praised.
- Steve Reich's ‘Drumming, Part Three’ is for four xylophonists who begin with a tightly interlocking pattern and then gradually go out of phase with each other.
- I think the xylophonist was Zombie Chernenko.
- From 1917 to 1919 he was a drummer and xylophonist with Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orchestra and recorded and performed on Broadway.
- In fact, for the first hour or so I was wondering why the xylophonist wasn't in Arcade Fire.
- In a real players' tour-de-force, this multi-faceted and instrumental band allows all of its members - from guitarist to xylophonists - to contribute to the genial groove going on.
- One of the most widely known of the xylophonists in the 1920's was George Hamilton Green.
- Everybody who knows anything about xylophone knows you are not only the greatest living xylophonist, but also the greatest xylophonist who has ever lived.
- The entertainment is firmly in the hands, or mallets of master xylophonist Ian who leads the orchestra.
- In these and other small group contexts, the xylophonist recorded many memorable performances.
adjectivezʌɪləˈfɒnɪk
noun zʌɪˈlɒfənɪstˈzaɪləˌfoʊnəst
Origin
Mid 19th century: from xylo- 'of wood' + -phone.
This is the only common word formed from Greek xylo- ‘wood’, although it is common enough in science in words such as xylene (mid 19th century) a hydrocarbon made from distilled wood, and archaeologists can describe a single lump of wood as monoxylic (mid 19th century) on the model of monolithic (mid 19th century) for ‘single stone’.
Definition of xylophone in US English:
xylophone
nounˈzīləˌfōnˈzaɪləˌfoʊn
A musical instrument played by striking a row of wooden bars of graduated length with one or more small wooden or plastic mallets.
木琴- The album opens with shimmering, aquatic xylophones before the drums crash in with a fractured march, and a woozy bass spills like a cloud of ink all over everything.
- Dwarfed by a large screen on which there are projections of singing puppets and mind-numbing flash visuals, Manitoba bashes away on dual drum kits, keyboards, xylophones, melodicas and stringless guitars.
- It's soft female harmonies layered on top of tinkling bells, xylophones and other gentle, celestial sounds.
- Percussion is composed of sleigh bells, tambourine, xylophone and kettle drums.
- Although I guessed that they didn't have their usual large scale entourage, the band was fleshed out nicely with an electric cello, violin, xylophone, bass, drums, guitars and various vintage synths.
- Here the group combines trombone, a simplistic guitar line, and what sounds like either a marimba or a xylophone.
- They were to be accompanied by two grand pianos played by musicians, as well as three xylophones, four bass drums, a gong, three aeroplane propellers, seven electric bells and a siren.
- It is a simple ballad with a choirboy singing a melody over a xylophone and soft string orchestral backing.
- By letting Declan use a range of musical instruments - everything from drums, xylophones and bongos to the piano and even his own voice - Angela enabled him to learn to communicate again.
- The cozy empathy of those loopy, repetitive guitars and xylophones envelops you, wraps you in tenderness, gives you the quiet strength to face all the hoarse pain of the world again.
- She played the tambourine, the xylophone, and the harmonica, all to our swooning hearts' delight.
- Left behind are dry nipping ambient winds and sleepy-eyed guitars like so many tattered articles of clothing and in their place emerge woolly layers of banjo, children's xylophones, trumpets and home-recorded toy pianos.
- Originally, it was scored for a phalanx of player pianos, buzzers, airplane propellers, xylophones, and a host of other percussion instruments.
- Jim, a pupil of Smithy Bridge School, is not only a highly accomplished drummer owning his own drum kit, but also plays the xylophone, timpani, piano and accordion.
- On Monoke, Chantler was using electronic devices to treat piano, guitar, xylophone and local Japanese instruments and arranging his sounds into complex structures.
- Drums are a common instrument, as are wooden xylophones; bow harps; zithers; and the sanza, a small thumb piano fashioned from bamboo.
- Dancing piano keys, stroking violins and cellos, tapping xylophones, beats, electronic elements… there's room for them all on this magnificent musical exhibition.
- In ‘The Pulse’, for example, Kalahari drums and xylophones provide the backbeat for an urban rap narrative.
- Percussion plays a major role, particularly what Grainger called ‘tuneful percussion,’ chimes, glockenspiels, tuned gongs, celestas, xylophones, and so on.
- Over an aching vocal performance, Tipton swaddles Nilsson all in bells, oboes, glockenspiels, blurted brass, pizzicato'd violins, and xylophones, bidding an elongated adieu to pop's previously ornate design.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from xylo- ‘of wood’ + -phone.