Also 6 sum-. [L. symphōnia, a. Gr. συμφωνία SYMPHONY.]
1. = SYMPHONY 2, 3.
1579. Lodge, Def. Plays (Shaks. Soc.), 21. [Music] drawing his original from the motion of the stars, from the agreement of the planets … and from al those celestial circles where there is ethir perfit agreement or ony Sumphonia.
2. = SYMPHONY 1. (After Vulgate, Dan. iii. 5.)
1864. Pusey, Lect. Daniel, i. 29. There is no evidence of any actual instrument called ‘symphonia,’ until times when it would be altogether a new instrument.
3. = SYMPHONY 5.
1724. Short Explic. For. Wds. in Mus. Bks., Symphonia, or Simphonia, a Symphony; by which is to be understood Airs in Two, Three, or Four Parts, for Instruments of any Kind; or the Instrumental Parts of Songs [etc.].
