monody

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Monteverdi’s writing in the “Vespers” is organized around a dazzling array of what, for him, were old and new forms: hymn, Gregorian chant, polyphony, operatic monody, arioso and embellished virtuoso singing.

From New York Times

The Oriental monody seems to throw a spell over Rimsky-Korsakoff which spreads over all his works a sort of 'local colour,' underlined here by the chosen subjects.

From Project Gutenberg

She wrote, it is believed, at least nine books of odes, together with epithalamia, epigrams, elegies, and monodies.

From Project Gutenberg

He wrote a pathetic and not wholly forgotten monody on the death of his first wife, to which he could have added a new and poignant emphasis after his second marriage.

From Project Gutenberg

Of the admired monody to the memory of Lady Lyttleton, we are told only that it is long.

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