单词 | kirtan |
释义 | kirtann. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > church music > hymn > [noun] hymnc825 psalmeOE lof-songeOE canticlea1325 cantic1483 Te Deum1679 hymnica1834 Yigdal1845 spiritual1858 Sankey1887 kirtan1898 bhajan1914 Hare Krishna1968 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > religious song > Indian sacred song kirtan1898 bhajan1914 1898 B. A. Pingle Indian Music (ed. 2) vii. 313 The Kirtana or Hari-kirtana is a musical performance, vocal and instrumental, of a sacred character, the theme of which is always a moral... The Kirtana is a beautiful combination of rhetoric, rhyme and rhythm. 1960 A. Koestler Lotus & Robot i. i. 65 During Kirtans her body got stiff and benumbed. 1966 J. Godden & R. Godden Two under Indian Sun iii. 82 Indian singing too was usually about the gods, kirtans or sacred poems that told these epics of Krishna, or Rama and his love Sita. 1967 R. Singha & R. Massey Indian Dances xv. 129 The poet Jayadeva, author of the Gita Govinda who composed numerous keertans or devotional songs, and whose wife expressed them through dance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1898 |
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