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threnody
noun[ C ]
music, literature specializeduk /ˈθren.ə.di/ us /ˈθren.ə.di/
a sad song or poem, especially remembering someone who has died:
The composer's threnody for the victims of the war was his most famous work.
The final movement's threnody is extremely moving.
She delivered a threnody at the funeral that she had written herself.
In my sombre mood, I imagined that the wind blowing through the birch trees was like a threnody.
The slow movement ends with a threnody featuring soaring and swooping string parts.
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the Internationale
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