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What does tintinnabulation mean?

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Noun
  1. A tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass.
  2. The ringing of bells.
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Across the darkling meadows, from the heights of Hare, the tintinnabulation sounded mournfully, penetrating the curl-wreathed tympanums of Lady Parvula de Panzoust.
The playing here instantly suggests ebullience, inspiration, and the threat of permanent tintinnabulation.
If you can't hear in that the tintinnabulation of heaven, then you have a J-cloth ear and a Bakelite soul.
Keeping tune, tune, tune To the tintinnabulation of the spoon.
The bells were quickly inserted in their ears, and soon the whole village was in tintinnabulation.
It is an example of what Mr. Pärt calls tintinnabulation, a slow, introspective style, with the strings playing in a high register, that often evokes the pealing of bells.

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