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Concept
Threnody
Summary
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"), 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".
Similar terms 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.
In written works:
Countee Cullen's "Threnody for a Brown Girl"
Bruce Dawe's poem "Homecoming"
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Threnody"
Peter H. Gilmore's "Threnody for Humanity"
A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young"
Jan Kochanowski's "Laments"
Yusef Komunyakaa's "Sunset Threnody" in Dien Cai Dau (1988)
Anna Stanisławska's Transaction, or an Account of the Life of an Orphan Girl told through Mournful Laments in the Year 1685
In classical music:
Thomas J. Bergersen's "Threnody for Europe"
Benjamin Britten's "Threnody for Albert Herring"
Lou Harrison's Threnody for Carlos Chavez
Toshio Hosokawa's Threnody: To the victims of the Tōhoku 3.11 Earthquake (2011)
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 1 June 1945)
Janis Crystal Lipzin's 2003–05 film Threnody
Two "Thrénodies" from Franz Liszt's piano series Années de pèlerinage, set at the Villa d'Este
Marian McPartland's "Threnody", written in memory of pianist Mary Lou Williams
Krzysztof Penderecki's Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Gordon Rumson's Threnody for John Ogdon
Bright Sheng's Nanjing! Nanjing!
William Grant Still's Threnody: In Memory of Jean Sibelius
Takashi Yoshimatsu’s Threnody to Toki
"Threnody for Souls in Torment" by Robert Fripp
In jazz:
"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
"Memories of Lee Morgan", composed by Pharoah Sanders in memory of Lee Morgan.
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