An instance of the use of castanets in opera occurs in the Habanera in Carmen.
When intended for use in the orchestra the pair of castanets is mounted one at each end of a wooden stick about 8 in.
Castanets are also sometimes used in military bands and are then specially constructed.
The sound of castanetsand guitars is heard in every direction.
The sound of castanets and clapping of hands never ceases; the talking is deafening.
There is a great deal of movement; the hands keep time with the feet, playing castanets hung with bright-coloured ribbons.
The sixteen seises, or choristers, dance in front of the high-altar, using castanets and singing in the most charming and graceful minuet fashion.
This is danced by a man and a woman, and thecastanets are used.
The young men spring to their places, rattling castanets or imitating their sound by snapping their fingers.
When monseigneur is here the house is full of ladies and gentlemen," answered the host; who believed that the brother and sister had come to play their castanets before the marquis.
The castanets clashed and fluttered beneath her fingers, her skirts swirled this way and that, her feet beat the floor in time with the pulsation of the guitar.
His feet and ankles were covered with boots, on which were many small castanets and little bells.
Castanets of brass, called sa'ga't are used by the public female and male dancers.
They are attached, each by a loop of string, to the thumb and second finger, and have a more pleasing sound than castanets of wood or ivory.
The Chief Contractor, who saw what had happened, rattled thecastanets which he wore on his left knee, and a young Stork dressed in the uniform of a fireman ran up behind the Despoiler, and by the aid of long pincers withdrew the fish-bone.
He touched his lips with his magic ring, then he agitated the castanets which hung at his knee, and cried: "Food, food!
In a moment Flora had retired within the caravan, and emerged again with a pair of castanets in her hands.
For the nonce I gave up the castanets to the bosun, and beat the drum myself, thumping it on its sound side joyously.
She drew her body up to her full height and the copper castanets began to tinkle with such challenge in their piercing sound that the whole crowd trembled with emotion.
They seized the castanets and danced round one another with all manner of graceful and complicated evolutions, making love, quarrelling, pouting, exhibiting every variety of emotion.
Sometimes the faint click of castanetsrise from the Alameda, where some gay Andalusians are dancing away the summer night.
One may try, however rashly, to translate it: (She has found a set of castanets in her girdle.
There came to the ears of Ramon Garcia the click of castanets from the semi-dark of wide-arched doors, and the soft tink-a-tank of lightly thrummed guitars.
With the thought of Spain there comes also the snap of the castanets and the flash of bright-colored skirts as they move in time to the tarantella.
With regard to Spanish dancing, as a popular amusement it is almost universal, and rarely are two or three gathered together but that the sound of the tambourine, guitar, and castanets is heard and the dance is in full swing.
Poor little Pilarica, into whom courtesy had been instilled as the first of all the virtues, winked hard, but held out the castanets toward her brother.
You are welcome to your house, my lord Archangel," faltered Pilarica, not forgetting her manners, but holding her precious castanets tightly clasped behind her back.
One cannot, indeed, regard a feast as pompous or solemn at which the banging of the tambourines and the click of castanets vied with the clatter of the dishes and the laughter of the guests in creating a general hullabaloo.
It was not unusual for them to carry tambourines and castanets with which to beat time to their dances.
Sounds of singing and castanets can be heard, and youths and maidens dance upon the flowering acacia trees, while even the beggar sits upon a block of marble, refreshing himself with a juicy melon, and dreamily enjoying life.
Valens had an obedient Homoean clergy, but no trappings of official splendour could enable Eudoxius or Demophilus to rival the imposing personality of Athanasius or Basil.
Twice only did thy little hands strike the castanets --then was my foot swinging in the madness of the dance.
Life appears to Zarathustra as a woman; she strikes her castanets and he dances with her, flinging out all his wrath with life and all his love of life.
The castanets are a link that binds the family, logically or otherwise, to earliest history.
It is broad and big of movement; the castanets most of the time are held strongly out at arm’s length.
Down to the tuning of the castanets is emphasised the difference between this dance of the stalwart uplanders and the more liquid expression of Andalusia.
As castanetsare to the dances of Spain, the tambourine is to those of Italy.
But this is straying from the Flamenco; castanets are in the main an adjunct of the Classic.
The management of the castanets is a difficult addition to such vigourous foot-work, and important.
And the night wind through the pines, that had sounded so doleful but a moment before, became the jubilant clicking of countless castanets, the castanets of the long pine needles, sounding a triumphant chant to the touch of invisible hands.
The gray green moss hung festooned from branch to branch; and the light sifted down a tempered rain of gold; and all the shiny evergreens shook gypsy castanets of joy to the riffling wind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "castanets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
