SYMPHONY. This Word is taken for the Agreement of several Voices, a and a Concert of several Instruments, or for a particular sort of Instrument. St. Luke takes it Luke xv. 25. Vulg.in the first Sense, when he says, that the Brother of the prodigal Son, returning out of the Field, heard in his Father’s House a Concert of Instruments, and the Rejoycing of those that danced; or the Voices of those that sung; Audivit symphoniam Dan. iii. 5. 7, 10, 15. Rev. ii. 9. iii. 9. Ex. xxxiv. 31. Num. i. 3 4. xvi. 2, &c.& chorum. Daniel takes it in the second Sense, for an Instrument of Musick, which was a Viol, or some Instrument approaching thereto. See our Dissertation upon the Instruments of Musick of the antient Hebrews, printed before the second Tome upon the Psalms.
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