monody
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“The Wishing Tree,” a beautiful, seemingly slight nine-line monody, commemorates his laconic, generous mother—“I thought of her as the wishing tree that died / And saw it lifted, root and branch, to heaven.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2019
Suddenly, a hidden 35-piece baroque orchestra begins the accompaniment to the introductory monody, and a spotlight picks out a bearded Father Time at the door of a pyramid above the abyss.
From Time Magazine Archive
At length, one evening, Vincenzo Galilei, father of the astronomer Galileo, presented himself with a monody.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
Sea, sea, Laugh on in glee; How dear to the sailor thy sweet monody!
From Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst by William Stephen Pryer
A prelude or a fugue of Bach is essentially a "monody," a composition of one idea, which preponderates so decidedly as to enforce its character and individuality upon the work; nay, it is the work.
From The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
I had in my collection no fewer than forty-seven monodies and dirges on Stonewall Jackson; some dozens on Ashby and a score on Stuart.
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon
She wrote, it is believed, at least nine books of odes, together with epithalamia, epigrams, elegies, and monodies.
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer
He affected some decent poetry just before he was hanged, and therefore the Saints took up his memory and wrote monodies on him.
From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Clement King Shorter
We can use these elegies, reveries and monodies as a means of discovering the nature of the virtues thus brought out from obscurity, though in coloring too pale and uniform.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
Among these are "monodies" upon Kynge Edwarde the forthe, and the Earle of Northumberlande.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
