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Monody

Monody Meaning & Definition
Monody Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Monody?

[n] music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Monody: monophonic music

Related Terms | Find terms related to Monody: accord | accordance | alba | anacreontic | attune | attunement | balada | ballad | ballade | bucolic | canso | chanson | chime | chiming | clerihew | concentus | concert | concord | concordance | consonance | consonancy | consort | coronach | dead march | death knell | death song | diapason | dirge | dithyramb | eclogue | elegy | English sonnet | epic | epicedium | epigram | epithalamium | epode | epopee | epopoeia | epos | eulogy | euphony | funeral march | funeral oration | funeral song | georgic | ghazel | graveside oration | haiku | harmonics | harmony | heavy harmony | homophony | Horatian ode | idyll | Italian sonnet | jingle | keen | knell | limerick | lyric | madrigal | monochord | monophony | muffled drums | narrative poem | nursery rhyme | ode | palinode | passing bell | pastoral | pastoral elegy | pastorela | pastourelle | Petrarchan sonnet | Pindaric ode | poem | prothalamium | requiem | rhyme | rondeau | rondel | roundel | roundelay | Sapphic ode | satire | sestina | Shakespearean sonnet | sloka | song | sonnet | sonnet sequence | symphony | synchronism | synchronization | tanka | tenso | tenzone | three-part harmony | threnode | threnody | triolet | troubadour poem | tune | unison | unisonance | verse | verselet | versicle | villanelle | virelay

See Also | music

Monody In Webster's Dictionary

\Mon"o*dy\, n.; pl. {Monodies}. [L. monodia, Gr. ?, fr. ? singing alone; ? single + ? song: cf. F. monodie. See {Ode}.] A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.

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