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Threnody
Threnody meaning
A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.
Example sentences (3)
Cheever, 93 Emerson wrote of his grief in the poem " Threnody " ("For this losing is true dying"), McAleer, 313 and the essay "Experience".
Gallois, p. 368 The work contrasts a "doleful threnody " in the slow movement with the finale, which "pirouettes in 4/4 time", in a style reminiscent of the 18th century.
The experimental textures, such as were seen in the Threnody, are balanced by the work's Baroque form and the occasional use of more traditional harmonic and melodic writing.