Threnody vs Threnode - What's the difference?
threnody | threnode |
A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.
* 1879 , (John McElroy), Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons , ch. 44:
* 1973 , Ann Bond, "New Organ Music," The Musical Times , vol. 114, no. 1565, p. 741:
As nouns the difference between threnody and threnode
is that threnody is a song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy while threnode is a threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song.threnody
English
(wikipedia threnody)Noun
(threnodies)- The fifer actually knew but one tune "The Bonnie Blue Flag"—and did not know that well. But it was all that he had, and he played it with wearisome monotony for every camp call. . . . I never hated any piece of music as I came to hate that threnody of treason.
- A strongly personal note runs through Kenneth Leighton's Improvisation (Novello, 35p), which is a threnody in memory of Maurice de Sausm?rez. Gently undulating, cantabile lines of ‘mourning’ alternate with sharp, anguished note-clusters which work up to a fierce paroxysm of grief.