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As Beryl remarked afterwards, if only she'd had her castanets with her she'd have been rattling away and dancing a fandango.
Halfway through this life, the snap in my step is the dull sound of bone on bone, like bass castanets.
At another, with his castanets, he brought alive the feel of a jota, the popular Spanish folk dance.
The Turks made their dawn prayers and then advanced with castanets, tambourines, cymbals and terrifying war cries.
Instruments used in traditional Moroccan music include the tbal, a double-headed drum, and the querqbat, or metal castanets.
His teeth were rattling in head, his legs had turned to jelly and his knees were knocking together like castanets.
Other things get a look in too, for example castanets get clicked, fans get fluttered and shawls get twirled as well.
Originally, these were danced to the accompaniment of singing and clapping only, with guitars and castanets added later.
If I had said Spanish, you'd have said something like guitar, castanets, bullfights and such.
Drumming groups may also include a lively mix of castanets, beaten bells, and even wind instruments.
The castanets of Spain have clicked seductively through many a French score, and Debussy can manage them as deftly as anyone.
She had managed to put together castanets with pieces of wood and string, which she need for the dance.
This should be a subtly sexy piece with flowing movement that acts as a counterpoint to the percussive orchestral castanets.
If you like your Spanish guitar music in tight trousers and with castanets clicking, this probably won't be to your taste.
Flutes, oboes, bagpipes, castanets, and other instruments hang with sheet music, a jester's staff, and a theatrical mask.
The pupils experimented with a variety of instruments, including castanets, guiros, Swanee whistles and hand chimes.
In Spain, the audiences shout 'jaleos' while the flamenco dancers' footwork and the tapping of her castanets move to the strumming of the guitar.
There was another set of timpani, another bass drum, side drums, castanets, two xylophones, and, if I recall correctly, tubular bells as well.
We quickly get to a motif made up of hammered-out chords on the piano, and then a rattling of castanets, in an exuberance that is almost Iberian.
Other instruments, including castanets, hand-clapping and foot-stamping are also employed.
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My teeth chattered like castanets, jarring in my jaws until it was painful.
And thereupon, he hurled his cap at the wall, and snapped his fingers like castanets.
Two or three, standing close to him, can hear his teeth clacking like castanets!
She hummed a tune to herself, rattling a pair of castanets slightly now and then.
His symbol is a pair of flappers or castanets, which he carries in one hand.
An instance of the use of castanets in opera occurs in the habanera in Carmen.
She was to warn them with her castanets the instant she caught sight of the patrol.
I told her I should have liked to see her dance, only there were no castanets to be had.
And to her amazement, lira's brother held out the magic castanets.
And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room.
Furious blasts clutched at the windows, and rattled them like castanets.
I expected to hear your teeth chattering together like castanets.
The sound of the castanets seemed to make her alive all over.
This is danced by a man and a woman, and the castanets are used.
It was a strange clicking noise in the distance not unlike castanets.
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