monody

Example Sentences

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“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

For money the cranes of the pumps creaked their monody.

From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen

The chorus died; and we heard again the deep monody of the sea, like the admonitory voice of fate.

From Old Junk by Ratcliffe, S. K. (Samuel Kerkham)

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 Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)