10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STICCADO»
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The Musical Cyclopedia: Or, The Principles of Music ...
STICCADO, an instrument consisting of slips of wood, metal, or glass of different
lengths, and tuned to the notes of the scale, and resting on the edges of it kind of
open box : which are struck with a ball attached to a piece of whalebone.
William Smith Porter, Lowell Mason, 1834
2
Complete dictionary of music ...
The Stentorophonic-Horn of Alexander the Great is famous : with this, it is said,
he could give orders to his army at the the distance of one hundred stadia, which
is above twenty English miles. Sticcado. An instrument consisting of small lengths
...
3
America's Music, from the Pilgrims to the Present
The Doctr. carries with him a pretty little instrument. It is the sticcado, with glass
bars instead of wooden ones, and with keys applied to it. It's principal defect is
the want of extent, having but three octaves. I wish you could exercise your
ingenuity ...
4
A Dictionary Music: Theoretical and Practical
Sticcado. An instrument consisting of small lengths of wood, flat at bottom,
rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are
unequal, both in length and thickness, gradually increasing from the smallest to
the largest ...
5
A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical. To which ...
STICCADO. An instrument consisting of small lengths of wood, flat at bottom,
rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are
unequal, both in length and thickness, gradually increasing from the smallest ,to
the, ...
Thomas Busby, Samuel Arnold, 1817
6
A companion to the Liverpool museum
A singular Musical Instrument, from the Slave1 Coast, somewhat resembling the
Italian Sticcado; it is made of pieces of hard sonorous wood of different lengths
placed upon a frame, under which are fixed gourds of various sizes. It is played ...
William Bullock (F.L.S.), 1808
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A dictionary of three thousand musical terms (revised by ...
Sticcado. The Sticcado is an instrument consisting of a kind of box, open at the
top, and upon the edges of which rest small lengths of wood, or of metal, or glass.
It is a pulsatile instrument, and tuned to the diatonic scale. Stilo m Recitativo. (Ital.
) ...
Thomas Busby, James Alexander Hamilton, 1840
8
The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman ...
She also produced a sticcado pastorale w'ch had been given her,46 but not
being able to play it I wo'd have touch'd just for the company to 44Benedetto
Marcello (1686-1739). Venetian dilettante composer. His settings of 50 Psalms
were ...
John Marsh, Brian Robins, 1998
9
Percussion Instruments and Their History
There are preserved specimens of both types of instrument dating from the mid-
eighteenth century, at which period the sticcado pastorale (a mallet-played
instrument with sounding parts of glass) was in vogue.2 Percussion instruments
of this ...
Young Benjamin Franklin learned to play the violin and to sing; later he
expanded his musical training to include the guitar, harp, harpsichord, sticcado-
pastorale, and his own glass harmonica. By K Marie Stolba, Ph.D. (Reprinted
from NSDAR ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STICCADO»
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Ziggy and the Coffees from Mars
Working at Sticcado Café in Yarragon, he makes many, many coffees. When there are not too many people waiting he likes to show off his artistic flair, creating ... «Warragul Citizen, Apr 15»
