单词 | prosodion |
释义 | prosodionn. Ancient Greek Music. A hymn sung in procession at a religious festival. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > church music > hymn > kinds of hymn > processional > [noun] walking hymn1605 prosodion1696 prosode1777 processional1868 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > hymn or song of praise > in Greek church Great Canon1662 prosodion1696 prosode1777 cathisma1850 ode1850 canon1862 triadic canon1862 Contakion1866 ephymnium1910 1696 E. Sherburn tr. F. Blondel Compar. Pindar & Horace 48 The Prosodion [Fr. Prosode] was apparently that which they sung in going to the Temple of Apollo..and the Apostolion what was sung..by the Company of the Gallies going out to Sea. 1712 J. Weaver Hist. Dancing 12 The Prosodion, or Litany, or Supplication, was said with a Hymn, when they approach'd towards the Gods, and brought the Sacrifices to the Altar. Some are of Opinion, that this was only the Song that contain'd the Hymn of that God; for the Athenians sung Pæans and Prosodia's to Demetrius on his Approach: But when the Word Prosodia is of the Feminine Gender, and join'd with a Musical Instrument, it signifies a Song. 1850 W. Mure Hist. Lang. & Lit. Greece III. 73 Such, apparently, was the style of the celebrated Delian prosodium of Eumelus. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets v. 116 Processional hymns, or Prosodia, were sung at solemn festivals by troops of men and maidens walking, crowned with olive, myrtle, bay, or oleander, to the shrines. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 524/1 Alcman composed various kinds of poems in various metres; Parthenia (maidens' songs), hymns, paeans, prosodia (processionals), and love-songs. 1963 J. Burckhardt Hist. Greek Culture iii. x. 203 If a polis had occasion to send a mission to some renowned divinity,..it sent, apart from the regular ambassadors, a choral group,..with a song composed of new words and a new melody, the so-called prosodion, to be sung at the altar. 1994 S. E. Alcock Placing the Gods v. 135 Eumelos' date is based on his composition of a prosodion for the Messenians,..before the First Messenian War. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1696 |
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