Definitions for monodies

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monodies mon·o·dy

Spelling: [mon-uh-dee]

IPA: /ˈmɒn ə di/

Monodies is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 295 anagrams from letters in monodies (deimnoos).

Definitions for monodies

noun

1. a Greek ode sung by a single voice, as in a tragedy; lament.
2. a poem in which the poet or speaker laments another's death; threnody.
3. Music. a style of composition in which one part or melody predominates; homophony, as distinguished from polyphony. a piece in this style. monophony (def 1).

Origin of monodies

1580-90; Late Latin monōdia Greek monōidía a solo, monody, equivalent to monōid(ós) singing alone (see mon-, ode) + -ia -y

Examples for monodies

First attempts in the Recitative style, in the melodious song for a single voice (monody) and in the Concertante style.

He thought well of 'The monody,' and warmly advised me to publish it.

In 1797 lines 5-10 were restored to the Man of Ross and omitted from the monody.

Having heard his monody to the end, and waited in vain for a second stave, I flew to his assistance.

The first eight lines are included in the monody on Chatterton.

He is chiefly remembered by his monody on the death of his wife.

In my last communication on this subject, I forgot to remark on the strange title given to the monody on Mr. Browne.

Slander attributed the finest passage in this monody to Tickell, just as it had before attributed Tickells bad farce to Sheridan.

In 1821, he wrote his Adonais, a monody on the death of Keats.

What sport the monody on Napoleon would be—what wooden verse, what stucco ornament!