| 单词 | sorrow song |
| 释义 | > as lemmassorrow song sorrow song n. a mournful folk song or spiritual, esp. one originating among African Americans in the southern United States. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > dirge or lament threne?a1475 elegy?1521 dumpa1556 coronach1559 dirge1568 requiem1578 threnos1601 planctusa1612 death song1613 monody1623 threnody1634 trental1648 lament1698 myriologue1824 keen1830 planh1843 threnode1858 myrology1892 sorrow song1903 lamento1944 1903 W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk xiv. 250 They that walked in darkness sang songs in the olden days—Sorrow Songs—for they were weary at heart. 1943 J. Coleridge-Taylor Memory Sketch v. 35 On her return from a South African tour, she [sc. Ada Crasby] gave a recital,..asking my husband to accompany her in his ‘Six Sorrow Songs’. 1990 J. M. Spencer We shall Overcome iv. 87 Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer knew the sorrow songs of the freedom struggle and the sorrow songs her mother used to sing when she was a child. 2005 M. A. Gomez Reversing Sail viii. 205 The sorrow songs and field hollers and spirituals of slavery..slowly gave way in the late nineteenth century to a profusion of musical expressions. < as lemmas |
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