Monody synonyms and antonyms

mŏn'ə-dē

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cry (related)
A loud vocal sound expressing pain, anger, fright, joy, etc.
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dirge
A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
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chant
The definition of a chant is a song, melody or something repeated over and over again.
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lament
A literary or musical composition, as an elegy or dirge, mourning some death or calamity
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song (related)
A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
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monophony
Music having a single melody without accompaniment or harmonizing parts, as in plainsong
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monophonic music
music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment)
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polyphonic-music (antonym)
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polyphony (antonym)
Multiplicity of sounds, as in an echo
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Monody Sentence Examples

  • The most remarkable is the Monody on the Death of Chatterton and the Religious Musings.

  • The Canzoniere is therefore one long melodious monody poured from the poet's soul, with the indefinite form of a beautiful woman seated in a lovely landscape, a perpetual object of delightful contemplation.

  • We have an opportunity to hear the original monody on the immediately preceding track.

  • Of the former, his panegyric on the emperor Anastasius alone is extant; the description of the church of St Sophia and the monody on its partial destruction by an earthquake are spurious.

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