symphonion (simfonion)

[NL., Sound Symphonious of ten you sand harps. Milton, P. L., vii. 559. More dulcet and symphonious than the bells Of village-towers on sunshine holiday! Shelley, Edipus Tyrannus, ii. 2. 2. In music, same as symphonic. symphonist (sim'fō-nist), n. [= F. symphoniste; as symphon-y + -ist.] A composer of symphonies: as, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven are the greatest of the earlier symphonists. symphonizet (sim'fō-nīz), v. i. [ The law and prophets symphonizing with the gospel. Boyle, Style of the Holy Scriptures (Works, II. 137).; pl. symphonies (-niz). infonve, etc. OF. sinfonia = G. symphonie Gr. συμφων concert symphony = = symphony (sim'fō-ni), n.; [Early E mod. E. also symphonie, simphonie, sim fonie; The Poetes cheife Musicke lying in his rime or concorde to heare the Simphonie , he maketh all the hast he can to be at the end of his verse, and delights not in many stayes by the way, and therefore giueth but one Cesure to any Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 62. verse. Sound and sweetne , voice, and symphonie , Concord, Consent, and heav'nly harmonie. Heywood , Hierarchy of Angels, p. 582. 2. In music: (at) Same as symphonia1, 2. Heer is the queen of Fairye, With harpe and pype and symphonye Dwelling in this place. Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 1. 104. Praise him upon the claricoales, The lute and simfonie. Leighton, Teares or Lamentations (1613). (Hall i well, [under regals .) (bt) Same as ritornelle. (c) An elaborate composition in three or more movements, e en tially similar in construction to a sonata, but written for an orchestra, and usually of far grander proportions and more varied elements. The symphony is now recognized as the highest kind of instrumental music. It was brought to its cla ical form mainly by Haydn in the last part of the eighteenth cen tury, and has since been extensively developed by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendel ohn, Schumann, Brahms, and others. Symphoricarpos (sim fo-ri-kärpos),. [NL. clustered berries; so called in allusion to the = E. bear1 ), + καρπος, fruit.] A genus of gamopetalous shrubs, of the order Caprifoliaceæ and tribe Lonicereæ. It is characterized by flowers with a cup-shaped and four or five-toothed calyx, a funnel or bell-shaped corolla bearing as many lobes and epipetalous stamens, and an ovary of four cells, two with a few imperfect ovules, the others each with the ovule solitary, perfect, and pendulous. The 8 or 9 species are natives of the United States, Canada, and the mountains of Mexico. They are mainly western; one, S. occi dental is, extends north to latitude 64°. They are smooth or hairy shrubs with slender four-angled branchlets and scaly buds, producing opposite ovate leaves which are entire or The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary Symphoricarpos obtusely toothed on young plants. The small white or red flowers are arranged in short axillary spikes or in racemes, and are followed by fleshy white or red berries, each with four cells but only two seeds. In several species the corolla is remarkably filled with close white hairs. For the three eastern species, see coral-berry, snowberry, and wolfberry; the first is also known as Indian currant, and a general name is St. - Peter's -wort.