Lexicographical Neighbors of Lyricon
Literary usage of Lyricon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"The organo- lyricon is an extremely complex instrument of French invention, much
on the principle of the organ, but combining more distinctly a great ..."
2. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"Finally Marcianus Capella, in the fifth century, wrote, in barbarous language,
a sort of encyclopaedia, under the name of Sa- lyricon (on account of the ..."
3. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"Abbr. O. órgano di campana (or-gä'-nö de käm-pä'-nä) It. Literally, in the organ:
an old term for music in more than two parts. organo-lyricon ..."
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