单词 | harmonist |
释义 | harmonistn. 1. One skilled in musical harmony. a. A player, singer, or composer of ‘harmonies’ or tuneful sounds; a musician. Also figurative. A poet (cf. singer n.1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] musiciana1398 musickerc1450 music man1569 tuner1579 harmonian1603 minstrel1718 musico1724 harmonist1742 performer1776 executanta1859 musicist1873 melodizer1890 tunester1903 muso1967 muso1977 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 10 Sweet Harmonist! and Beautiful as sweet! 1791 G. Huddesford Salmagundi 83 Ballads I have heard rehears'd By harmonists itinerant. a1800 W. Cowper Lines to Darwin 3 Sweet harmonist of Flora's court! 1835 W. Wordsworth Stanzas Power of Sound xii, in Yarrow Revisited 320 That Ocean is a mighty harmonist. b. A composer skilled in harmony (as distinguished from melody, etc.); one versed in the theory of harmony, a writer on harmony. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > music scholar > [noun] > harmony harmonician1761 harmonista1790 a1790 A. Smith Ess. Imitat. Arts in Ess. (1795) ii. 174 A musician may be a very skilful harmonist, and yet be defective in..melody..and expression. 1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 284 Milton was a harmonist rather than a melodist. 1880 E. Gurney Power of Sound 271 Modern harmonists are unwilling to acknowledge that the minor triad is less consonant than the major. c. One of a school of ancient Greek musical theorists who founded the rules of music on the subjective effects of tones, not on their mathematical relations, as the canonists did. ΚΠ 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. bijv The Controuersie betwene the auncient Harmonistes, and Canonistes. 2. One who collates and harmonizes parallel narratives, or the like; one who makes a harmony, esp. of the Gospels: see harmony n. 6. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [noun] > collation of parallel passages > one who harmonist1713 harmonizer1713 1713 R. Nelson Life Bp. Bull (1714) 140 He chargeth the Harmonist with confounding the Terms of Scripture. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. (1872) 17 The..careful translator and harmonist of the English Chronicles. 1896 W. F. Adeney How to read the Bible 108 The temptation of the harmonist is to smooth away all differences between the accounts he has set himself to bring into line. 3. a. One who reduces something to harmony, agreement, or concord; a harmonizer. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > action of bringing into agreement or harmony > one who brings into harmony harmonizer1678 harmonist1809 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 78 The intelligence which..controls..occurrences, is..represented..under the name..of the supreme harmonist. 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pilgrims of Rhine xix. 178 The swayers and harmonists of souls. 1876 W. Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. June 140 The harmonists of science and religion he rated as little better than knaves. b. pre-established harmonist, one who accepts the doctrine of pre-established harmony: see harmony n. 1 (nonce-use.) ΚΠ 1838 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 44 234 The occasionalists and pre-established harmonists. 4. (with capital H.) One of a communistic religious body in the United States, founded by Geo. Rapp of Würtemberg in 1803; they settled in Pennsylvania, and founded a town called Harmony (whence their name), and another called Economy. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > harmonist > [noun] harmonist1824 Rappite1832 Rappist1842 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV xxxv. 22 When Rapp the Harmonist embargoed marriage. 1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 227 The followers of Rapp at Economy (the Harmonists). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1570 |
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