Meanings of monody in English

His music belongs entirely to the ancient period of monody.

That monody would be shorn of its interest, if it were inserted anywhere else.

The poem is a monody of nerveless, exhausted grief.

What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!

Tragedy was at first simply a monody to Bacohus.

A monody to commemorate the author's friend, Arthur Hugh Clough, who died at Florence, 1861.

For the monologue has sprung from the monody, and the chorus has developed into the ballet.

Stroke by stroke, the great familiar monody of that incomparable curfew rose and fell in the stillness.

There was the monody, confident but subdued, the most ancient song in the world, of invisible waters.

There is lots of monody, both choral and from the two soloists, Anja Petersen and Andrew Redmond.

He is capable of penning a canto to a crinoline, and has a pathetic monody on a mackintosh.

He stiffened under the steady monody.

The lips of Chingachgook had so far parted, as to announce that it was the monody of the father.

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

You are very ready with your monody; it yet lacks three or four hours of sunset, when one might probably begin to lament.

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