monody

• The gnats sang their monody, and the midges put in their treble, but the meshes of my gauze were too fine to let them pass; and after hours of this strange pandemonium I fell asleep, to be waked in the morning by the sun streaming over me from the broad Atlantic. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
• "I composed a melody, or a monody, trying to illuminate the specificity, but the unspecificity came back very soon!"
• The prince, in his masquerades and martial sports, used to call himself “Mœliadês of the Isles Mœliadês, bright day-star of the West W. Drummond, Tears on the Death of Mœliades (1612 The burden of the monody is Mœliadês sweet courtly nymphs deplore From Thulê to Hydaspês’ pearly shore Moffat= (_Mabel_), domestic of Edward Redgauntlet.--Sir W. Scott, Redgauntlet (time, George III Mogg Megone.= Indian sachem who, at the behest of a white girl, kills her betrayer, and brings his scalp to her. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
• This appears most prominently in the upper voice part, where often the controlling melody seems ready to break quite through in pure song style, but only partly succeeds In the texture of the voices all kinds of imitations appear, but only subordinated and in very modest setting All this was a part of the steady progress toward monody, the final goal of Italian musical art, where, in extreme contrast to the Netherlandish subordination to school, the emergence and domination of individuality, the special and significant distinction of the Renaissance, were taking shape. —  Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
• Some years previously I published stanzas, or a monody, on the death of Lord Byron. —  The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

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