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

And in a strange, brief, staccato monody chanted the men, and in quick, light rustle of women's voices came the responses.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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

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

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

From The Frogs by Aristophanes

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

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

His business was to devise dirges, monodies, laments, descortz in the Provençal manner; to cry "Heigho!" and "Well-a-day!" not "Ban!" or "Out, haro!"

From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett