| 单词 | goat song |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoat song goat song n. [after ancient Greek τραγῳδία tragedy n.] (a) (the name of) a hymn (supposedly) sung at a sacrifice in Ancient Greece; = tragedy n. 7 (now historical); (b) a classical tragedy or a later literary or dramatic work influenced by and in a style characteristic of this genre; = tragedy n. 1b (now rare and chiefly historical). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > hymn or song of praise > specific hymn Te DeumOE trisagiona1387 exultand1519 tragedy1546 goat song1678 Tantum ergo1709 Exultet1869 1678 T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 12 The Priests sung an Anthem to their god Dionysus, whilst the Goat stood at his Altar to be sacrific'd: And this was call'd the Goat-song or Tragedy. 1721 C. Gildon Laws of Poetry 152 The religious Goat-Song was perform'd at the end of their vintages, in honour of Bacchus. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas Pref. p. viii The only goat-song which I have yet attempted. 1900 J. B. Bury Hist. Greece (1904) v. 201 The goat song of the days of Pisistratus grew into the tragedy of Aeschylus. 1982 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 20 Nov. The festival of the Great Dionysia of the City..was characterized by the competing choruses of satyrs, clad in goatskins, who danced around the altar of the god and sang their ‘goat songs’. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) x. 297 Ormus Cama, finally, cannot believe that he has walked on to the stage of some fearsome contemporary goat song. < as lemmas |
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