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1751 S. Richardson Corr. (1804) III. 183 Think you, Madam, that a certain monodist did not imagine himself possessed by this purer flame.

1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1106 The monodist [sc. G. Huddesford, who wrote a ‘Monody on the Death of Dick, an Academical Cat’] connects him with cats of great renown in the annals of witchcraft.

1918 W. Petersen (title) The lyric songs of the Greeks; the extant fragments of Sappho, Alcaeus, Anacreon, and the minor Greek monodists.

1988 Classical Q. New Ser. 38 60 Thus the point about greater length of stanzas in choral poetry is again thrown into doubt if Stesichorus' lengthy stanzas are the product of a monodist.

1888 Dict. National Biogr. XVIII. 376/2 Like all the productions of the early monodists, the melodies seem extraordinarily harsh, crude, and uninteresting.

1916 C. V. Stanford & C. Forsyth Hist. Mus. vii. 148 There is no sudden revolution in the method of handling the musical material such as the monodists engineered in 1600.

1974 Country Life 14 Mar. 590/3 In the early-17th century..the Italian Monodists..sought to find a new expressive force by abandoning the use of the contrapuntal device.

1988 Jrnl. Royal Mus. Assoc. 113 260 A number of monodists did in fact bring to the ‘new’ music various structural and expressive devices initially developed within the polyphonic madrigal.