Monody

//ˈmɑnədi// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge.
  2. 2
    music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) wordnet
  3. 3
    Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy.
  4. 4
    A monotonous or mournful noise.

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

  5. 5
    A composition having a single melodic line.

    "All directions in life were blocked to him. He could not think, he could not sleep, his heart thudded to a deadening monody of fear. Fear that is itself the penalty of all things feared."

Etymology

From Latin monodia, from Ancient Greek μονῳδία (monōidía).

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