Definition of Symphonic

1. Adjective. Relating to or characteristic or suggestive of a symphony. "Symphonic choir"

Partainyms: Symphony
Derivative terms: Symphony

2. Adjective. Harmonious in sound. "The symphonic hum of a million insects"
Exact synonyms: Symphonious
Similar to: Harmonious

Definition of Symphonic

1. a. Symphonious.

Definition of Symphonic

1. Adjective. (music) Characteristic of a symphony ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Symphonic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Symphonic

sympathy
sympathy card
sympathy strike
sympatico
sympatric
sympatrically
sympatries
sympatry
sympetalies
sympetalous
sympetaly
symphile
symphiles
symphilid
symphily
symphonic (current term)
symphonic music
symphonic poem
symphonic poems
symphonically
symphonies
symphoniette
symphonious
symphoniously
symphoniousness
symphonise
symphonist
symphonists
symphonize
symphonized

Literary usage of Symphonic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1917)
"During the year it has been the means of introducing to large audiences, not necessarily of music lovers, such striking and important symphonic scores as ..."

2. How to Appreciate Music by Gustav Kobbé (1906)
"It stands for something that outstrips the symphonic poem of Liszt, something larger both in its boundaries and in its intellectual and musical scope. ..."

3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"Ы. symphonic POEMS (Germ. ... aeries of twelve orchestral compositions which, freed from the conventions of actual symphonic form, seemed to him to require ..."

4. A Complete History of Music, for Schools, Clubs, and Private Readings by Winton James Baltzell (1905)
"LESSON L THE symphonic POEM IN GERMANY. Wagner's Influence.—The genius of Wagner produced and applied to Opera a far richer and more complicated ..."

5. A Complete History of Music, for Schools, Clubs, and Private Readings by Winton James Baltzell (1905)
"LESSON L. THE symphonic POEM IN GERMANY. Wagner's Influence.—The genius of Wagner produced and applied to Opera a far richer and more complicated ..."

6. Symphonies and Their Meaning: Third Series: Modern Symphonies by Philip Henry Goepp (1913)
"It is clear that the symphonic poem is in very essence opposed to the symphony. The genius of the symphony lies in the overwhelming breadth and intensity of ..."

7. Richard Strauss, the Man and His Works by Henry Theophilus Finck (1917)
"A similar way of transforming themes is used by Liszt in his symphonic poems, which, like Wagner's music dramas, are coherent in all their parts, ..."

8. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1917)
"During the year it has been the means of introducing to large audiences, not necessarily of music lovers, such striking and important symphonic scores as ..."

9. How to Appreciate Music by Gustav Kobbé (1906)
"It stands for something that outstrips the symphonic poem of Liszt, something larger both in its boundaries and in its intellectual and musical scope. ..."

10. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"Ы. symphonic POEMS (Germ. ... aeries of twelve orchestral compositions which, freed from the conventions of actual symphonic form, seemed to him to require ..."

11. A Complete History of Music, for Schools, Clubs, and Private Readings by Winton James Baltzell (1905)
"LESSON L THE symphonic POEM IN GERMANY. Wagner's Influence.—The genius of Wagner produced and applied to Opera a far richer and more complicated ..."

12. A Complete History of Music, for Schools, Clubs, and Private Readings by Winton James Baltzell (1905)
"LESSON L. THE symphonic POEM IN GERMANY. Wagner's Influence.—The genius of Wagner produced and applied to Opera a far richer and more complicated ..."

13. Symphonies and Their Meaning: Third Series: Modern Symphonies by Philip Henry Goepp (1913)
"It is clear that the symphonic poem is in very essence opposed to the symphony. The genius of the symphony lies in the overwhelming breadth and intensity of ..."

14. Richard Strauss, the Man and His Works by Henry Theophilus Finck (1917)
"A similar way of transforming themes is used by Liszt in his symphonic poems, which, like Wagner's music dramas, are coherent in all their parts, ..."

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