Crossword-Solution: CROTALA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

They execute their dances to a simphony of various instruments, extremely resembling the antient ones, the _tympanum_, the _crotala_, the _cimbals_, and the like, as well as to songs, being a kind of small dramatic compositions, or what may properly be called _ballads_, which is a true word for a song at once sung and danced: _ballare_ signifying to dance; and _ballata_, a song, composed to be danced.

Man probably beating time with his hands, and giving out the verse of a song, to which the men responded; though 3 appears as if about to throw something which 2 is preparing to catch, or striking crotala.

Men sometimes danced with great spirit, bounding from the ground more in the manner of Europeans than of an Eastern people; on which occasions the music was not always composed of many instruments, but consisted only of _crotala_ or maces, a man clapping his hand, and a woman snapping her fingers to the time.

The right hand holds two objects, perhaps _crotala_ or possibly flutes, and the left hand was extended.

The dancing Psyche has four butterfly wings and plays the _crotala_ or castanets; her feet are bare, but she wears bracelets.