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Examples of threnody
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The Conformist is a threnody to an era and a political regime, Mussolini's Italy.
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It is a haunting threnody, with McPhee's tenor mourning above Ellis's tingling bass.
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The death of Alexander Pope from Museus, a threnody by William Mason.
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He sings his threnody at the faintest sign of sympathy.
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House of Exile is a bold, inventive and often haunting threnody for European letters in a terrible century.
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When one of the playwright's rare soliloquies is let fly it turns out to be a threnody to British theatre.
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John Osborne's threnody on the middle years electrifies with bolts of bitterness and sparks of caustic humor.
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Willis Owns Ethiopia is a threnody of solidarity for that country's people, which he wrote for a fundraising event.
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In some ways, they sing an elegy in a graveyard-a threnody of lost nerve, lost confidence and a lost imperial destiny.
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- Dirge: a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
- Threnody is the third album by American death metal band Woe of Tyrants, released on April 13, 2010 through Metal Blade Records. It was produced by Jamie King.
- Threnody is a fictional character created by Marvel Comics for the X-Men series. She was originally featured as a sort of "hound" for Mister Sinister, but this depth was fully explored in the series X-Man which came much later.
- Threnody is the second album from Swedish melodic death metal/industrial band Engel. The album saw a release in Japan on April 7th 2010, with european release yet to be announced due to the band's split with label SPV GmbH.
- A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy
- (threnodies) elegiac, distich salubrious dirge us news
- An ode or song of lamentation; a dirge. >Gr. threnoidia (19)
- A poem, a song, or an instrumental composition that expresses lament for the dead.
- A young female calendar wit who becomes a lamplighter apprentice with Rossamund.
