0 a musical instrument consisting of a frame with a set of metal bars in it that you hit. The bars have electrical devices attached to them that make them vibrate so that they produce musical notes that seem to shake slightly.
Vibraphone, marimba and glockenspiel are all vital to the slow movement at the heart of the piece.
The full range of notes on piano, church organ, spinet and vibraphone, as well as single hits on claves and bell were also provided.
In the score, this texture is doubled by crotales, glockenspiel, vibraphone and cimbalom.
Vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiels, xylophone and crotales combine with percussion to produce a decidedly strange atmosphere when merged with the gleaming, superbly defined, 16th-century backdrop.
The vibraphone resumes its jolly prattle until, seemingly having run out of things to say, the music just stops dead.
Yet more violence ensued in the galvanizing cadenza for percussion, brass and vibraphone, which both alluded to the big band element, and articulated the confrontational character of the music.
The initial material returns with soft-centred strings above hypnotic vibraphone f iguration and is sung to a close by the rapturous sound of bowed vibraphone chords.
The quiet lyrical text portrayed by the singer was accompanied by softly wafting sounds from mirambas and vibraphone, in a somewhat monotonous, duly repetitive sequence, to illustrate the theme.
