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The lyre (λύρα, lýra) is a string instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later. The word comes via Latin from the Greek; the earliest reference to the word is the Mycenaean Greek ru-ra-ta-e, meaning `lyrists` and written in the Linear B script. The lyres of Ur, excavated in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), date to 2.....
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• (n.) One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra. • (n.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.
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A musical instrument with strings that are plucked with the fingers.
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stringed musical instrument having a yoke, or two arms and a crossbar, projecting out from and level with the body. The strings run from a tailpiece ... [5 related articles]
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A stringed instrument shaped like a small harp.
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1. A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry. ... The lyre was the peculiar instrument of Apollo, the tutelary god of music and poetry. It gave name to the species of verse called lyric, to which it originally furnished an accompaniment ... 2. <astronomy> One of the constellations;...
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A lyre is a small harp played at Anglo-Saxon feasts.
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Lyre noun [ Middle English
lire , Old French
lyre , Latin
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1. (Mus.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry. » The lyre was the peculiar instrument of Apoll...
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a harp like plucked instrument with strings stretched across an open frame with no soundbox.
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U-shaped, stringed instrument (similar to a harp)used in ancient Greece to accompany recited/sung poetry. See 'lyric poetry' below.
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The lyre was an ancient musical stringed instrument of Eastern origin. It consisted of a hollow resonant body, from each end of which rose a gracefully curved horn-shaped arm, turning out towards the top. The upper parts of the two arms were connected by a cross-bar, to which the strings were attached; and the latter, after passing over a bridge re...
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n] - a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment
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See under marc. Pomace The term is used for the residues from grape pressing or residues after mash fermentation as well as for the spirit distilled from it (marc spirit). Press residues Term for the pulp of the grape skins, pulp, seeds and, if necessary, if no destemming has taken place, also stalks after pressing. Other names are Bälisch (M...
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noun a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment
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Stringed musical instrument of great antiquity. It consists of a hollow soundbox with two curved arms extended upwards to a crosspiece to which four to ten strings are attached. It is played with a plectrum or the fingers. It originated in Asia, and was widespread in ancient Greece and Egypt. Tuned to a given mode, it provided a pitch guide for voc...
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a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of a soundbox made typically from a turtle shell, with two curved arms connected by a yoke from which strings are stretched to the body, used esp. to accompany singing and recitation. · (cap.)the constellation Lyra.
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