monody

“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

Milton's "Lycidas" is a monody on the death of the poet's friend, Edward King.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter

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.

From Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West by Hamlin Garland

The first movement of this is quite as much a monody as anything of Bach's, but with a difference.

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

So much for them: but still I'd like to show The way in which your monodies are framed.

From The Frogs by Aristophanes

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

Asides and soliloquies.Lengthy monodies, monologues and episodical specialties.

From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton Wallace Blancké

Its monodies are twelve poems, whose music strives to change yet ever is the same.

From The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

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.

From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton Wallace Blancké