English to Shona Meaning of threnody - threnody

Threnody :

threnody

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Definitions of threnody in English

Noun(1) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

Examples of threnody in English

(1) a brooding threnody to urban desolation(2) His threnody captured the awful essence of untimely death in early-twentieth-century black societies that prized marriage and reproduction.(3) In three sections (two large ones sandwiching a short middle), it begins with a threnody in the solo viola over an accompaniment in the lower instruments, with commentary by other orchestral soloists.(4) At the close, he switches back to the minor, violins softly reiterating the sad opening motive like a threnody of distilled passion.(5) Thomson's memorial poem to the Lord Chancellor, dedicated to William Talbot, is as much a work of political opposition as it is a threnody .(6) This track is a threnody - contemplative, measured and stately in progress.(7) The love poem has turned into something else with the death of the beloved, the acute sadness in the poem seeming to move it toward the elegy or threnody .(8) Considered over a lifetime, written by a dying old man in the remnants of his ducal palace in Palermo, it is a threnody to a fallen patrician class.(9) The second movement is an eerie threnody , while the third manages almost to resolve the emotional trauma of the first.(10) ‘Birth Of An Object’ sounds out a manual poetry of machinic stanzas, marking the persistence of the industrial age in forgotten shop floors still grinding out indistinct objects, a sort of industrial threnody .(11) It is a mournful threnody , measuring to the final cost the waste and destruction caused by the edenic myths of California that have defined it throughout its existence.(12) Something of its threnodic sensuality is continued in the Violin Concerto, designed as a memorial to the teenage daughter of Mahler's widow.(13) This dazzling facade is not, however, what makes Elgar a great composer: for his mature works turn out to be threnodies on Edwardian opulence and might.(14) It ends with the title theme given an almost threnodic treatment, as a solo violin bridges the orchestral passages.(15) While middle-aged women of pious persuasion are novelizing as hugely as ever, adolescent girl threnodists have fallen into a decline.(16) Strenuous fireworks, hoarse violin figures and a quietly threnodic contemplation are all there.

(1) three some ::

matatu vamwe

Synonyms

Noun

1. dirge ::

rwemariro

2. coronach ::

coronach

3. lament ::

mucheme

4. requiem ::

requiem

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