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monody|ˈmɒnədɪ|
[ad. L. monōdia, monōdium, a. Gr. µονῳδία solo, lament, f. µονῳδ-ός singing alone, f. µόν-ος mono- + ᾠδ- contracted form of ἀοιδ- ablaut-var. of ἀείδ-ειν to sing: cf. ᾠδή ode. Cf. F. monodie, It. monodia.]
1. In Greek literature:
a. A lyric ode sung by a single voice; an ode sung by one of the actors in a tragedy (as distinct from the chorus); hence, a mournful song or dirge.
[1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xxiv. (Arb.) 63 Such funerall songs were called Epicedia if they were song by many, and Monodia if they were vttered by one alone.] 1623Cockeram, Monodies, mournefull songs. 1656Blount Glossogr., Monodie, a lamentable or funeral song, where one sings alone. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 156 ⁋7 Tragedy was a monody or solitary song in honour of Bacchus, improved afterwards into a dialogue. 1760Fawkes tr. Sappho Introd., She wrote nine Books of Odes, besides Elegies, Epigrams, Iambics, Monodies and other Pieces. 1896Haigh Greek Drama 363 The monodies form one of the most salient features in the tragedy of Euripides. 1900H. W. Smyth Greek Melic Poets p. xxi, The chief representatives of the monody are the Aiolians and the Ionic Anakreon.
b. A funeral oration. [So in late Gr.]
1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xviii. II. 110 note, The monody pronounced on the death of Constantine, might have been very instructive; but prudence and false taste engaged the orator to involve himself in vague declamation.
2. A poem in which a mourner bewails some one's death.
1637Milton Lycidas Argt., In this Monody the Author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drown'd. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 590 Soon after was a tomb erected..whereon was insculp'd a Monodie made by Dr. Laur. Humphrey. 1790Coleridge (title) Monody on the Death of Chatterton. 1809Byron Bards & Rev. 747 Let monodies on Fox regale your crew. 1866M. Arnold (title) Thyrsis. A Monody, to commemorate the author's friend, Arthur Hugh Clough.
3. Mus. The homophonic style of composition (see monodia). Also, a composition in this style.
1887Daily News 3 May 6/1 Songs for a single voice were not known in art music until Vincenzo Galilei..composed solos with instrumental accompaniments. On the invention of these ‘monodies’, as they were called, the three above-named [Italian] masters..founded their dramatic attempts. 1890in Century Dict.
4. ‘Monotonous sound; monotonousness of sound’ (Cent. Dict.).
a1849Poe Bells iv, Hear the tolling of the bells—Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! 1885Miss Murfree Prophet Gt. Smoky Mts. i. 30 The vague, sighing voice of the woods rose and fell with a melancholy monody. |