symphonia

American  

[sim-foh-nee-uh] / sɪmˈfoʊ ni ə /

noun

1. any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.

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Etymology

Origin of symphonia

1570–80; < Late Latin, Latin symphōnia symphony

Example Sentences

Muñoz only just recently performed alongside the GIO Symphonia orchestra ahead of a preview in front of an audience in Girona, Spain last week.

From Reuters

On Thursday at David Geffen Hall, “Symphonia Domestica” tended light and lively, a peppery-cold scoop of sorbet instead of a syrupy port wine.

From New York Times

Perhaps the best description of the suite is that it made “Symphonia Domestica” seem almost reticent by comparison.

From New York Times

“That’s what we’re talking about right there,” Mr. Friedman said, after listening to three pulse-quickening brass chords in Fritz Reiner’s 1956 recording of Strauss’s “Symphonia Domestica.”

From New York Times

New York is on its third new music director since then, but he’s still going strong in Ohio, and returns with the kind of sophisticated, new-old program Cleveland audiences will recognize: Jörg Widmann’s suite of music from his 2012 opera “Babylon” — the Philharmonic’s answer to Carnegie Hall’s focus on Mr. Widmann next season — and Strauss’s “Symphonia Domestica.”

From New York Times