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Meanings of musical elegy in English

An instrumental piece, lamenting the loss of someone deceased.

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        1
        In his elegy upon Marathon he carried away the prize from Æschylus.
        Mosaics of Grecian History
        2
        The second movement was an elegy on the death of a child.
        Jean-Christophe Journey's End
        3
        The song passed gradually into an elegy, plaintive and full of pain.
        Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
        4
        The first poem he completed in America was an elegy for W.B.
        The new yorker
        5
        Now this stirring elegy will be premiered at the Galway Arts Festival.
        The Irish Times