Meaning of monody | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge.
2. Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy.
3. A monotonous or mournful noise.
4. A composition having a single melodic line.

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Examples

“Stroke by stroke, the great familiar monody of that incomparable curfew rose and fell in the stillness.”

“All directions in life were blocked to him. He could not think, he could not sleep, his heart thudded to a deadening monody of fear. Fear that is itself the penalty of all things feared.”

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