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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra [syn: symphonic music ] a large orchestra; can perform symphonies; "we heard the Vienna symphony" [syn: symphony orchestra ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, a name given to various types of musical instruments, from Old French simphonie , sifonie , simfone "musical harmony; stringed instrument" (12c., Modern French symphonie ) and directly from Latin symphonia "a unison of sounds, harmony," from Greek ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Symphony by the American composer Steven Stucky is a four-movement symphony for orchestra . The work was jointly commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic . It was composed from January through July 2012 and premiered ...
Usage examples of symphony.
The unlucky promised symphony has haunted my imagination ever since it was bespoken, and it is only, alas!
She is a member of the Borzoi Club of America and was invaluable to me in the writing of Dark Symphony.
She is a member of the Borzoi Club of America and was invaluable to me in the writing of Dark Symphony.
Solovievs and the description of a big symphony concert in Moscow about 1900 are masterpieces of verbal expressiveness, delicate realism, and delightful humor.
From time to time staccato notes of delight added a distinct jubilant quality to this symphony, heralding the arrival of some group of Church dignitaries from one or other of the seven principal parishes of Venice, gorgeous in robes of high festival and displaying the choicest of treasures from sacristies munificently endowed, as was meet for an ecclesiastical body to whom belonged one half of the area of Venice, with wealth proportionate.
C minor quartette, D major symphony, a concerto by Bach, played by Fanny, and a duet for two pianos.
They use the words counterpoint, fugue, symphony, oratorio, polyphony, the mode of Beethoven, the orchestration of Mahler, but their essential point is that, like a musician, the novelist seized time and reconstructed it according to his own laws, which were very close to those of orchestral music.
We played together in the Champlain Symphony when we were both starting out, and later in the Sackbut Sextet.
He scrambled to the side, past Pony and Symphony, and looked over the splotchy brush and the rolling clay to the black silhouette of mountaintops just visible far in the west, their outlines silver under the light of the descending sun.
She enjoys landscaping, her AOL True Trekker friends, performing in the Yakima Symphony Chorus, and is a 4-H volunteer.
Besides these operatic performances and his symphony concerts, he gathered about him a succession of young virtuosi pianists.
It is no good for the aestheticians to say that you ought not to be moved by a picture or a symphony because it fills you with erotic excitement or melts you to tears by reminding you of some longforgotten scene, or through its associations exalts you to mystic rapture.
Within thirty seconds they had started work on their usual nocturnal symphony, a rousing fanfare of farting and snoring, moaning and wanking.
Ladies who were pregnant were placed in a weaving symphony of sound that carried subliminal suggestions even into the developing forebrain of the fetus.
Vaughan Williams dies just after the debut of his final symphony, a last holdout against Boulez and Berio.