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What does threnodic mean?

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  1. Pertaining or similar to a threnody.
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We sense the deep scars of the war on Achebe in this melodic, threnodic, but measured narrative.
Similarly, the somber and threnodic second movement proves to be an elegy for the idealization of a war hero.
The theme's permutations are occasionally playful, often reflective, sometimes troubled, but never as threnodic as anything in the earlier quartet.
Something of its threnodic sensuality is continued in the Violin Concerto, designed as a memorial to the teenage daughter of Mahler's widow.
Strenuous fireworks, hoarse violin figures and a quietly threnodic contemplation are all there.
It ends with the title theme given an almost threnodic treatment, as a solo violin bridges the orchestral passages.

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