ağıt havası

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(Muzik) threnody
A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy

A strongly personal note runs through Kenneth Leighton's Improvisation (Novello, 35p), which is a threnody in memory of Maurice de Sausmārez. Gently undulating, cantabile lines of ‘mourning’ alternate with sharp, anguished note-clusters which work up to a fierce paroxysm of grief.

a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
threnodies a funeral song or poem for someone who has died
A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge, an elegy
A song of lamentation; a threnode
{i} lament, song of grief
ağıt havası
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