Noun
A song of lamentation; a threnode.
Source: Webster's dictionaryCheever, 93 Emerson wrote of his grief in the poem " Threnody " ("For this losing is true dying"), McAleer, 313 and the essay "Experience". Source: Internet
The experimental textures, such as were seen in the Threnody, are balanced by the work's Baroque form and the occasional use of more traditional harmonic and melodic writing. Source: Internet