timbre
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He also composes bit-by-bit musical moments that sound like timbrels and woodwinds fumbling randomly up and down a sadly keyed scale.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rabbis encouraged them, and they made the women and young people sing and play tambourines and timbrels to keep up their spirits .
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Now see the confusion, the shame, and the fear that followed those harps and timbrels and trumpets.
From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Drinkwater, Jennie M.
Song and roundelay, timbrels and harp, accompanied our forefathers on their wanderings, and preceded the armed men into battle.
From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Karpeles, Gustav
The first Psalm in the Bible—viz., that which Moses and Miriam sang after the passage of the Red Sea—was then accompanied by timbrels.
From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous
Vocabulary lists containing timbre
Music - Introductory
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