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*[[Lou Harrison]]'s ''Threnody for Carlos Chavez''
*[[Lou Harrison]]'s ''Threnody for Carlos Chavez''
*[[Benjamin Britten]]'s "Threnody for Albert Herring"
*[[Benjamin Britten]]'s "Threnody for Albert Herring"
*[[André Jolivet]]'s "Chant de Linos" for flute and piano or flute, string trio and harp; described by the composer as "...a form of threnody: a funeral lamentation interrupted by cries and dances..." (1944, premiered 6/1/1945) <ref>[http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/images/uploads/events/Nov_9_2010_notes.pdf] {{dead link|date=October 2017}}</ref>
*[[André Jolivet]]'s "Chant de Linos" for flute and piano or flute, string trio and harp; described by the composer as "...a form of threnody: a funeral lamentation interrupted by cries and dances..." (1944, premiered 6/1/1945) <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/images/uploads/events/Nov_9_2010_notes.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-06-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630123833/http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/images/uploads/events/Nov_9_2010_notes.pdf |archivedate=2011-06-30 |df= }} </ref>
*[[Janis Crystal Lipzin]]'s 2003-5 film ''Threnody''
*[[Janis Crystal Lipzin]]'s 2003-5 film ''Threnody''
*[[Yusef Komunyakaa]]'s "Sunset Threnody" in ''Dien Cai Dau'' (1988)
*[[Yusef Komunyakaa]]'s "Sunset Threnody" in ''Dien Cai Dau'' (1988)
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*"[[I Remember Clifford (song)|I Remember Clifford]]", written by [[Benny Golson]] to honor the memory of [[Clifford Brown]];
*"[[I Remember Clifford (song)|I Remember Clifford]]", written by [[Benny Golson]] to honor the memory of [[Clifford Brown]];
*"[[Goodbye Pork Pie Hat]]", written by [[Charles Mingus]] in memory of [[Lester Young]];
*"[[Goodbye Pork Pie Hat]]", written by [[Charles Mingus]] in memory of [[Lester Young]];
*"Memories of Lee Morgan", composed by [[Pharoah Sanders]] in memory of [[Lee Morgan]]. Morgan had played on [[Dizzy Gillespie]]'s recording of "I Remember Clifford" <ref>[http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/morgan-lee-edward-lee] {{dead link|date=October 2017}}</ref>
*"Memories of Lee Morgan", composed by [[Pharoah Sanders]] in memory of [[Lee Morgan]]. Morgan had played on [[Dizzy Gillespie]]'s recording of "I Remember Clifford" <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/morgan-lee-edward-lee |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-09-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014192641/http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/morgan-lee-edward-lee |archivedate=2013-10-14 |df= }} </ref>
*[[Moondog]]'s "Bird's Lament", dedicated to [[Charlie Parker]].
*[[Moondog]]'s "Bird's Lament", dedicated to [[Charlie Parker]].



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Jan Kochanowski with his dead daughter in a painting by Jan Matejko inspired by the poet's Threnodies.

A threnody is a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. The term originates from the Greek word θρηνῳδία (threnoidia), from θρῆνος (threnos, "wailing") and ᾠδή (oide, "ode"),[1][2] the latter ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂weyd- ("to sing") that is also the precursor of such words as "ode", "tragedy", "comedy", "parody", "melody" and "rhapsody".

Synonyms include "dirge", "coronach", "lament" and "elegy". The Epitaphios Threnos is the lamentation chanted in the Eastern Orthodox Church on Holy Saturday. John Dryden commemorated the death of Charles II of England in the long poem Threnodia Augustalis, and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a "Threnody" in memory of his son.[3]

Examples of threnody

Some classic jazz threnodies are:[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ The Oxford Companion to Music (2010)
  2. ^ "Threnody". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  3. ^ Grove Music Online (2010)
  4. ^ Peretz, Maya (1993). "In Search of the First Polish Woman Author". The Polish Review. 38 (4): 470.
  5. ^ Bright Sheng: Orchestral Works. Naxos (2002).
  6. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-30. Retrieved 2015-06-06. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ Pierce, Peter (2002). "Australian and American literature of the Vietnam War" in Australia's Vietnam War, p. 132. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 1585441376
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-14. Retrieved 2013-09-30. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Bibliography

  • Marcello Sorce Keller, “Expressing, Communicating, Sharing and Representing Grief and Sorrow with Organized Sound (Musings in Eight Short Sentences)”, in Stephen Wild, Di Roy, Aaron Corn, and Ruth Lee Martin (eds.), Humanities Research: One Common Thread the Musical World of Lament, Australian National University, Vol. XIX (2013), no. 3, 3–14.
  • The dictionary definition of threnody at Wiktionary