| 单词 | aeolian harp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAeolian harp Aeolian harp n. a stringed instrument producing musical sounds on exposure to a current of air.In quot. 1681 the reference is to a harp of Aeolia and not to this instrument. [Compare post-classical Latin instrumentum Aeolium (1677 or earlier), French harpe éolienne (1794). The aeolian harp, already known in classical antiquity, was rediscovered and described (but not named) by the German scholar Athanasius Kircher in his Musurgia universalis (1650) II. ix. 352. Compare slightly earlier Aeolus's harp n. at Aeolus n.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > harp or lyre > [noun] > lyre > Aeolian Aeolus's harpa1748 Aeolian harp1750 Aeolian lyre1754 anemochord1801 wind-harp1813 1681 K. Chetwood Ode on Death of Earl of Ossory 1 The Swan that often sung with tuneful breath, To his Æolian Harp, did sing Of God, of Hero, or of Heaven-born King.] 1750 Student 1 No. 8. 311 (title) Inscriptions on an Æolian harp. 1771 T. Jefferson Memorandum Bks. 21 Dec. (1997) I. 248 Under the temple an Aeolian harp. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 181 You melt in dulcet chords, when Zephyr rings The Eolian Harp. 1938 E. G. Richardson Physical Sci. Mod. Life i. 20 This is the modus operandi of that little instrument, sometimes seen in toyshops, known as the Aeolian harp. 2008 Wire Feb. 44/3 He is also now an instrument builder, constructing fire organs, a glass harmonica and Aeolian harps. < as lemmas |
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