| The love poem has turned into something else with the death of the beloved, the acute sadness in the poem seeming to move it toward the elegy or threnody. |
| It is a mournful threnody, measuring to the final cost the waste and destruction caused by the edenic myths of California that have defined it throughout its existence. |
| In three sections, it begins with a threnody in the solo viola over an accompaniment in the lower instruments, with commentary by other orchestral soloists. |
| At the close, he switches back to the minor, violins softly reiterating the sad opening motive like a threnody of distilled passion. |
| The threnody, written after the death of a deeply loved child, is a beautiful and impressive lament. |
| But the ode, in a more or less irregular form, whether pan or threnody, has been the instrument of several of our leading lyrists. |
