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Sourced or Silent · CC BY-SA 4.0A threnody is a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
01 · What it is
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02 · Where & name
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03 · How it is doing
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What is threnody in plain words?
A threnody is a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
Where is threnody practised or documented?
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What is the current condition of threnody today?
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The tradition & historical record
1 min read · 1 sourceA threnody is a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. The term originates from the Greek word θρηνῳδία (threnoidia), from θρῆνος (threnos, "wailing") and ᾠδή (oide, "ode"), the latter ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂weyd- ("to sing") that is also the precursor of such words as "ode", "tragedy", "comedy", "parody", "melody" and "rhapsody".
Similar terms include "dirge", "coronach", "lament" and "elegy". The Epitaphios Threnos is the lamentation chanted in the Eastern Orthodox Church on Holy Saturday. John Dryden commemorated the death of Charles II of England in the long poem Threnodia Augustalis, and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a "Threnody" in memory of his son.
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threnody is song, hymn or poem of mourning, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
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