Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One skilled in harmony.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One skilled in the principles of musical harmony; also, a musical composer.
- n. plural Same as harmonici.
- n. One who shows the agreement or harmony between corresponding passages of different authors; specifically, a writer of a harmony of the four gospels.
- n. [capitalized] A member of a communistic religious body organized by George Rapp in Würtemberg on the model of the primitive church, and conducted by him to Pennsylvania in 1803: their settlement there was called Harmony (whence their name). They removed to New Harmony in Indiana in 1815, but returned to Pennsylvania in 1825, and formed the township of Economy on the Ohio near Pittsburgh, and later a new village of Harmony. They are communistic, holding all property in common; they discourage strongly marriage and sexual intercourse, hold that the second coming of Christ and the millennium are near at hand, and that ultimately the whole human race will be saved. Also called
Rappist and Economite.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists.
- n. One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer.
- n. One of a religious sect, founded in Würtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony.
Examples
“And so, John, I mean, you know, given that Lucy is a dominant harmonist, did you have concrete ideas about how you wanted her to sing it?”
“And he who mingles music with gymnastics in the fairest proportions, and best attempers them to the soul, may be rightly called the true musician and harmonist in a far higher sense than the tuner of the strings.”
“If the fourth gospel is held to be of apostolic origin and trustworthy, the task of the harmonist is chiefly that of combining these two records of Mark and John.”
“It is highly significant that the account of the most indubitable fact in the view of the early Christians is the most difficult portion of the gospels for the exact harmonist to deal with.”
“Can you believe in harmony without believing in a harmonist?”
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880
“As a verbal melodist, especially a melodist of sweetness and of stately grace, and as a harmonist of prolonged and complex cadences, he is unsurpassable.”
“The Wagnerian _leit-motif_ idea is adopted in this and other works of his, and the chief objection to his writing is its too great fidelity to the Wagnerian manner, -- notably in the use of suspensions and passing-notes, -- otherwise he is a very powerful harmonist and an instrumenter of rare sophistication.”
“Gleason is less successful as a melodist than as a harmonist.”
“To this period (from 1640) belong two new series in which Velazquez 'formula becomes elaborated into his latest manner and the qualities of observer, artist, and harmonist are blended to produce the unparalleled masterpieces of 1655.”
“As erecter of truth and confirmer of the faith, as propounder of dogmas, harmonist of piety, abode of purity, select receptacle, the sweet smell of the Spirit, the great treasury of doctrines and the foundation of the church of Christ - we know thee, O God inspired (mentioned by name), sacred father.”
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