monody

1 Overhead the detached clouds swept swift as eagles, 167 casting shadows cold as winter, and in the dwarfed century-old trees the wind breathed a sad monody.

2 Your monody is so superlatively excellent, that I can only wish it perfect, which I can't help feeling it is not quite.

3 The broken and extended form of Tennyson's celebration of Arthur Hallam takes it out of a comparison with the Greek; but the monody of 'Thyrsis', Matthew Arnold's commemoration of Clough, approaches nearer the Greek.

4 If now we come down to the period when the modern opera was taking form we learn that Galilei sang his own "Ugolino" monody and accompanied himself on the viola.

5 The vague sighing voice of the woods rose and fell with a melancholy monody.

6 The slave class is the topic of many of these monodies: either the virtues of the loyal slave are extolled140, or the knavery of the cunning slave141.

7 The exquisite monody in which Halleck celebrated his loss, links their names and decorates their friendship with imperishable garlands.

8 The chorus died; and we heard again the deep monody of the sea, like the admonitory voice of fate.

9 What sport the monody on Napoleon would be—what wooden verse, what stucco ornament!

10 Some years previously I published stanzas, or a monody, on the death of Lord Byron.

11 Monteverdi’s writing in the “Vespers” is organized around a dazzling array of what, for him, were old and new forms: hymn, Gregorian chant, polyphony, operatic monody, arioso and embellished virtuoso singing.

12 After more than a century of singing psalms in church in unaccompanied monody, there's a move afoot to introduce hymns and instruments into 'Wee Free' services.

13 His music belongs entirely to the ancient period of monody.

14 The little book of immortal dirges had a fresh leaf added to it in "The Death of the Flowers," which was at once a pastoral of autumn and a monody over a beloved sister.

15 He was the active champion of monody, in which a principal melody was intoned or sung to the accompaniment of subordinate harmonies, believing that in music designed to arouse personal feeling individualism should predominate.

16 What sport the monody on Napoleon would be - what wooden verse, what stucco ornament!

17 The mountains stand revealed in more than one interpretation, touched by their own sublimity, but the sea remains silent in human speech, because no voice will ever be strong enough to match its awful monody.

18 Speakings uses electronics to replicate the erratic confusion of human speech until a huge, mantra-like monody eventually stills the babble.

19 Take away the last stanzas, which should be applied more definitely to the body, or cut away altogether as a lie against eternal verity, and the poem stands as one of the finest of monodies.

20 The women, striving to console the mother, were bending over her with gestures of compassion, and accompanying her monody with an occasional lament.

1 抒情独唱

monophony

2 挽歌

threnetical threnodial elegiacal keen requiem elegy dirge elegiac threnody coronach epicedium lament lamentation threnode monophony threnetic epicede tangi

3 挽诗

elegy elegiac

4 悼诗

monophony