| Pronunciation: | | 'mânudee
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| Matching Terms: | | monod, monodactylous, monodelph, monodelphia, monodelphic, monodic, monodical, monodimetric, monodist, monodon, monodon monoceros, monodontidae, monodrama, monodramatic, monodynamic, monodynamism
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| | Definition: | | [n] music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) |
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| | Synonyms: | | monophonic music |
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| | See Also: | | music |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mon"o*dy\, n.; pl. {Monodies}. [L. monodia, Gr. ?, fr. ?
singing alone; ? single + ? song: cf. F. monodie. See {Ode}.]
A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single
mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.
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| | Related Terms: | | accord, accordance, alba, anacreontic, attune, attunement, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, chime, chiming, clerihew, concentus, concert, concord, concordance, consonance, consonancy, consort, coronach, dead march, death knell, death song, diapason, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, English sonnet, epic, epicedium, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, eulogy, euphony, funeral march, funeral oration, funeral song, georgic, ghazel, graveside oration, haiku, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony, homophony, Horatian ode, idyll, Italian sonnet, jingle, keen, knell, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monochord, monophony, muffled drums, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, passing bell, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, poem, prothalamium, requiem, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, Sapphic ode, satire, sestina, Shakespearean sonnet, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, symphony, synchronism, synchronization, tanka, tenso, tenzone, three-part harmony, threnode, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, tune, unison, unisonance, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay |
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