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Sentence Examples It is probable that Fortunatus was here alluding to different varieties of the same plucked string instrument, essentially a lyre. Beside the armor, half hidden in the shadows, lie a wineskin, a lyre, books, and a mask. So for instance, the lyre bird is the storyteller of the bush, not only because it doesn't have a voice of its own, but because it keeps the law. The cows tend to be tall, angular and very feminine at maturity with upsweeping horns that acquire a lyre shaped twist with age. At the symposium, women danced and sang and performed on the double-reeded aulos, or lyre, having been hired, sometimes, on the street. This double album is a celebration of the lyre, centuries old, and traditionally the favourite instrument of the Sudan. He was a fine musician, playing the lyre, and he used music as a means to help those who were ill. The angels are playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery. Materials for the Rebec would be much the same as for the harp or lyre, although the Rebec has only three strings. As in the Gustavian era, they were typically crowned by a rope-tied cresting or sometimes by a lyre. A beautifully decorated lyre from Ur depicts similar figures in lapis lazuli and shell. He had a small lyre strapped to his back, and a shining ocarina hanging from a cord around his neck. The angels are depicted as playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery. Acting as his lyre, he has two obbligato bass viols which creates a series of remarkable timbres. Song birds in the mating season seem to sing endlessly, and some birds, such as parrots or lyre birds, can even imitate human speech almost to perfection. Group in Urbino majolica representing couple playing music, the young woman with a lyre, fauna with panpipes. The sailors confessed and were punished, and Arion's lyre and the dolphin became the constellations Lyra and Delphinus. A very old foot of wooden lamp skated headed by a magnificent craft lampshade with lyre. One bowed lyre was the Welsh crwth, which by the 13th century had gained a fingerboard running from the crossbar to the soundbox. This meditation gives similar experience as listening to the lyre of Apollo, to the veena of Narada and to the flute of Lord Krishna. Show More Sentences The azmari of Ethiopia sings lengthy historical epics and strophic love songs to his own accompaniment on the fiddle or lyre. It is so deeply carved with classical gods and goddesses Apollo with his lyre, Diana with her alert dog that the piece has become translucent. We thought that his lyre was permanently broken by the success of his novels. A musical trophy with a lyre, bow and arrows and foliage, fills the panel above the mirror. The dial announcing the weather, is surmounted by a lyre with a thermometer. It is a superb piece, made of mahogany and rosewood and inlaid with ebony spikes to the corners, raised on three lyre supports, each with splayed legs and brass lion-paw feet. Many of the riffs are righteously medieval in tone, but they rework those tripping arpeggios for a scorched-earth rock setting, without a lute, zither or lyre within earshot. In a way it was a cross between a lyre, violin and a guitar. Thus, only two instruments, the lyre and the zither, are needed. Yes, there is, and some people may not realise that yes, that there was an ancient constellation of the lyre, which was originally called the Lyre of the Pleiades. Only head and lyre remained intact, floating down the River Hebrus from Thrace to the sea. These pieces show Christov-Bakargiev wearing her Apollo hat and strumming the lyre too loudly. We might conclude that the only thing of beauty that remains of him is the shape of his lyre in the stars. When you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, the lyre, the trigon and drum and all the musical instruments, you are commanded to bow down and worship. Through its association with the Apollo and Orpheus myths and with the Homeric epics the lyre was accorded high status in Greek and Roman society. The first piece of music audiences will hear is the Rosalind Celia Theme, which establishes both the court music and the theme for Rosalind and Celia, played with trombone, lyre and nyckelharpa. In medieval Europe new varieties of lyre emerged that, like the kithara, were box lyres, although their precise relation to the lyres of classical antiquity is not known. When Hermes invents the lyre in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, the first thing he does is sing about the birth of the gods. Classes were held in teachers' private houses and included reading, writing, mathematics, singing, and playing the lyre and flute. The Irish name is related to crwth, the Welsh bowed lyre. Show More Sentences Orpheus, the son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope, is a great musician who plays the lyre with such perfection that nothing can withstand its charm. Like Orpheus with his lyre, Mr Maxwell's work at moments seems to sing. Kinnor, ancient Hebrew lyre, the musical instrument of King David. Alexander was raised in the manner of noble Macedonian youths, learning to read, play the lyre, ride, fight, and hunt. On such wise have they burned Me, taper-like, that o'er me The cup wept and the lyre Lament for my misgrace made. His lyre was silent, yet he dreamed, defenseless. Even cultural and leisure pursuits were derived from ancient Egypt: the harp is an elaboration of the Egyptian lyre, and the royal wife Nefertari played chess. Step 4 Vena, the Gandharva, is wiping off the pictures of the subconscious mind on the walls of my nature with the hieroglyphs of sounds from his seven stringed lyre. The krar is a lyre from Africa that to many is better known as the seron or kiganda, and the mbira is better known to many as the sanza, kalimba, likembe, or sanzhi. The premier Luo musical instrument is the nyatiti, a lyre of eight strings converging inside a hide resonator, all housed in a trapezoid wooden frame. The Albert's lyrebird of Australia is one of the most impressive of all birds, with long curved plumes like the ancient Greek lyre and a powerful song to match. Examples from Classical Literature Some lines of his on the lyre became the motto of an engraving by Bartolozzi. And when he came upon Apollo striking his lyre, his heart leaped into his mouth. But when Mercury invented the lyre, he gave the lyre to Apollo in exchange for the caduceus. The brachia, or sides of the lyre, were frequently made of these horns, as appears from ancient gems. Into scales of doubt, equally balanced, he should be ready to throw his lyre, as a makeweight. If you expect me to treat my lyre like a horse-collar, and grin through it, I'm afraid I am unable to gratify you. O attendants mine, in what moans of bitter lamentation do I dwell, in the songs of a songless strain unfit for the lyre, alas! Ibycus, the sacred poet, with his staff and his lyre, went on into the wood. He basks in the charming cheeks of the blooming chia, who is a proficient on the lyre. The lyre and the harp may be permitted in the town, and the Pan's-pipe in the fields. When did man forget to rush like Tyrtaeus to the combat, a sword in one hand, the lyre in the other? At the two extremities of European thought the lyre has raised two vast cities. Alas, my dear Thomson, I fear it will be some time ere I tune my lyre again! He improvised upon a many-stringed lyre made of tortoise shell, and his music was shimmering and symphonious. For the word has peculiar reference to preluding on the lyre. Moore was termed a 'lyrist,' and here we are told about his lyre. Loud rose the cry of Hymen, and the youths danced to the music of flute and lyre, while the women stood each at her house door to see them. Now, Carian, break This wand against yon lyre on the pedestal. The whistle of the locomotive, more powerful than Amphion's lyre, was about to bid them rise from American soil. Apollo struck his lyre, and the Muses lifted up their sweet voices, calling and answering one another. Show More Sentences The proposition, in this form, will be admitted at once by those who love the lyre for its own sake, and for its spiritual uses. The early lyre of the Greeks had four, constituting their tetrachord. It represented a recumbent Sappho playing on a nine-stringed lyre. Evadne gathered them, and reunited they formed the lyre of Apollo. Immanuel was the first to adapt Italian numbers to the neo-Hebraic lyre. A lyre rested on his knees, and he was striking the strings softly. On this a servant hurried off to bring the lyre from the king's house, and the nine men who had been chosen as stewards stood forward. The word for lyre in Greek and in Latin means also a tortoise. He touched the strings of his lyre, and all things were silent with joy. But when a poet gets into the habit of using his heartstrings to make chords for his lyre, he may thrum upon them as much as he will, without any great pain to himself. Returning with their jackets buttoned and their pumps stuck in them, they then produced packets of cold bread and meat and bivouacked under a painted lyre on the wall. But Ulysses, when he had taken it up and examined it all over, strung it as easily as a skilled bard strings a new peg of his lyre and makes the twisted gut fast at both ends. There was a bard also to sing to them and play his lyre, while two tumblers went about performing in the midst of them when the man struck up with his tune. Find more words! 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