Threnody vs Epitaph - What's the difference?
threnody | epitaph |
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:
An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.
A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person.
To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
* Bishop Hall
To commemorate by an epitaph.
* G. Harvey
As nouns the difference between threnody and epitaph
is that threnody is a song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy while epitaph is epitaph (inscription on a gravestone).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.
Synonyms
* dirge, elegyDerived terms
* threnodial * threnodic * threnodistepitaph
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The common in their speeches epitaph upon him "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog."
- Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters.