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• n  a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

• From the ludic raptures of "Feathers" to the slow-building threnody of "Cells That Smell Sounds" they span the spectrum of light and dark.
• But my toaster doesn't offer the tantalizing music of Pynchon's voice, with its shifts from comic shtick to heartbroken threnody, its mordant Faulkneresque interludes, its gusts of .
• The Passion of the Christ is a one-note threnody about the Son of God being dragged to his death.

• dirge
• coronach
• lament
• requiem

News & Articles

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• Going on a gluten-free diet is popular lately but comes with pitfalls
  Remember the days, not that long ago, when you never encountered the word "gluten"? Unless you were an ambitious baker, it was a rare word, like threnody, or anchorite.
  Nov. 12, 2013 - Denver Post

Quotes

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• Krzysztof Penderecki in LAist (blog)
  In 1964, Penderecki wrote: "Let the Threnody express my firm belief that the sacrifice of Hiroshima will never be forgotten and lost."
• Michiko Kakutani in Dallas Morning News
  Although his books can be uproariously, laugh-out-loud funny, a dark threnody of sadness and despair also runs through Wallace's work,Ms. Kakutani wrote. "He said in one interview that he set out with Infinite Jest 'to do something sad,'...