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An elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem
Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
, especially a funeral
Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour....
 song or a lament
Lament

A lament or lamentation is a song, poem, or piece of music expressing grief, regret, or mourning. Many of the oldest and most lasting poems in human history have been laments....
 for the dead.








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An elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem
Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
, especially a funeral
Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour....
 song or a lament
Lament

A lament or lamentation is a song, poem, or piece of music expressing grief, regret, or mourning. Many of the oldest and most lasting poems in human history have been laments....
 for the dead.

History

The term "elegy" originally denoted a type of poetic meter
Meter (poetry)

In poetry, the meter is the basic rhythm of a verse . Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse meter, or a certain set of meters alternating in a particular order....
 (elegiac
Elegiac

Elegiac refers either to those compositions that are like elegy or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. The Classical elegiac meter has two lines, making it a couplet: a line of dactylic hexameter, followed by a line of dactylic pentameter....
 meter). It commonly describes a poem of mourning
Mourning

Mourning is, in the simplest sense, synonymous with grief over the death of someone. The word is also used to describe a cultural complex of behaviours in which the bereaved participate or are expected to participate....
, from the Greek elegeia (derived from elegos)—a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally. As such, it may be classified as a form of lyric poetry
Lyric poetry

Lyric poetry refers to a usually short poem that expresses personal feelings, which may or may not be set to music. Aristotle, in Poetics , contrasted lyric poetry with drama and epic poetry....
.

An elegy can also reflect on something that seems strange or mysterious to the author.

Additionally, "elegy" (sometimes spelled elegíe) may denote a type of musical work, usually of a sad or somber nature.

The term "elegy" is not to be confused with "eulogy
Eulogy

A eulogy is a Speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially one recently deceased or retired. The word is derived from the Greek word e?????a , meaning praise ....
."

Literary elegies

  • Propertius' Elegies (author lived ca. 50 BCE – ca. 15 BCE)
  • Ovid
    Ovid

    Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman Empire poet known as Ovid to the English language-speaking world, who wrote about love, seduction, and Roman mythology transformation....
     (author lived 43 BCE – 18 CE)
  • Jorge Manrique
    Jorge Manrique

    Jorge Manrique was a major Spain poet, whose main work, the Coplas a la muerte de su padre , is still read today. He was a supporter of the great Spanish queen, Isabel I of Castile, and actively participated on her side in the civil war that broke out against her half-brother, Enrique IV, when the latter attempted to make his daughter,...
    's Stanzas about the Death of His Father (1476)
  • Jan Kochanowski
    Jan Kochanowski

    Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance List of Polish language poets who established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish Polish literature language ....
    's Laments
    Laments (Treny)

    The Laments are a series of nineteen Threnody by Jan Kochanowski.Written in Polish language and published in 1580, they are a highlight of Polish Renaissance Polish literature, and one of Kochanowski's signal achievements....
     (1580)
  • Chidiock Tichborne
    Chidiock Tichborne

    Chidiock Tichborne is remembered as an England Conspiracy and poet.He was born in Southampton in 1558 to Roman Catholic parents. Given the recent succession of Elizabeth I of England to the throne after the death of Mary I of England, he was allowed to practice Catholicism for part of his early life....
    's Elegy (1586)
  • Edmund Spenser
    Edmund Spenser

    Edmund Spenser was an important England poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem celebrating, through fantastical allegory, the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I....
    's Astrophel (1595)
  • Ben Jonson
    Ben Jonson

    Benjamin Jonson was an England English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satire plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist , and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his Lyric poetry poems....
    's On My First Sonne (1616)
  • John Milton
    John Milton

    John Milton II was an English poet, author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his Epic poetry Paradise Lost and for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica....
    's Lycidas
    Lycidas

    "Lycidas" is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy, first appearing in a 1638 collection of elegies entitled Justa Edouardo King Naufrago dedicated to the memory of Edward King , a collegemate of Milton's at Cambridge who had been drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637....
     (1637)
  • Thomas Gray
    Thomas Gray

    Thomas Gray , was an England poet, classical scholar and professor at University of Cambridge....
    's (1750)
  • William Roscoe
    William Roscoe

    William Roscoe , was an England historian and miscellaneous writer.He was born in Liverpool, where his father, a market gardener, kept a public house called the Bowling Green at Mount Pleasant....
    's Elegies (c. 1772)
  • Charlotte Turner Smith
    Charlotte Turner Smith

    File:CharlotteSmith.jpgCharlotte Turner Smith was an England poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political Sensibility....
    's Elegiac Poems (1784)
  • Franciszek Karpinski
    Franciszek Karpinski

    Franciszek Karpinski was the leading Sentimentalism Polish poet of the Age of Enlightenment. He is particularly remembered for his religious works later rendered as hymns and carols....
    's Zale Sarmaty nad grobem Zygmunta Augusta (Laments of a Sarmatian over the Tomb of [King] Zygmunt August—a patriotic elegy)
  • William Cullen Bryant
    William Cullen Bryant

    William Cullen Bryant was an United States romantic poetry, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post....
    's Thanatopsis
    Thanatopsis

    This article is about the poem. For the band, see Thanatopsis ."Thanatopsis" is a poem by American poet William Cullen Bryant....
     (1817)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major England Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest Lyric poetry in the English language....
    's Adonaïs
    Adonais

    Adona?s is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best works. The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 in poetry immediately after April 11, when Shelley heard of Keats' death some three months earlier....
     (1821)
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
    's Marienbad Elegy
    Marienbad Elegy

    The Marienbad Elegy is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.This poem, considered one of Goethe's finest and most personal , reflects the devastating sadness the poet felt when Ulrike von Levetzow declined his proposal ....
     (1823)
  • Alexander Pushkin
  • Evgeny Baratynsky
    Evgeny Baratynsky

    Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russia elegiac poet. After a long period when his reputation was on the wane, Baratynsky was rediscovered by Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky as a supreme poet of thought....
    's Autumn (1837)
  • Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H.
    In Memoriam A.H.H.

    In Memoriam A.H.H. is a long poem by the England poet Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet's University of Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Vienna in 1833, but it is also much more....
     (1849)
  • Walt Whitman
    Walt Whitman

    Walter Whitman was an United States Poetry of the United States, essayist, journalism, and humanism. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and literary realism, incorporating both views in his works....
    's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
    When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

    When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd is an elegy written by Walt Whitman shortly after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 in literature....
     (1865)
  • Louis Gallet
    Louis Gallet

    Louis Gallet was an inexhaustible French writer of operatic librettos, plays, romances, memoirs, pamphlets, and innumerable articles, who is remembered above all for his adaptations of fiction—and Scripture— to provide librettos of cantatas and opera, notably by composers Georges Bizet, Camille Saint-Sa?ns and Jules Massenet....
    's Elégie (author lived 1835–98)
  • William Butler Yeats
    William Butler Yeats

    File:William Butler Yeat by George Charles Beresford.jpgWilliam Butler Yeats was an Irish people poet and dramatist and one of the foremost figures of 20th century in literature....
    's "Easter 1916" (1916)
  • Rainer Maria Rilke
    Rainer Maria Rilke

    Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety ? themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets....
    's Duino Elegies
    Duino Elegies

    The Duino Elegies are a set of ten elegy written in German by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke from 1912 to 1922. Rilke had been visiting Princess Czech Branch of the House of Thurn und Taxis in the Duino castle in the region when he came across some cliffs from which he drew his inspiration to start his set of ten poems....
     (1922)
  • Virginia Woolf
    Virginia Woolf

    Adeline Virginia Woolf was an England novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literature literature figures of the twentieth century....
    's To the Lighthouse
    To the Lighthouse

    To the Lighthouse is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration....
     (1927)
  • Wladyslaw Broniewski
    Wladyslaw Broniewski

    Wladyslaw Broniewski was a Poland poet and soldier. He fought in the Polish-Soviet War and was decorated with the order Virtuti Militari....
  • Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski
    Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski

    Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski, January 22, 1921 ? August 4, 1944) - Poland poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most renowned authors of Generation of Columbuses - young generation of Polish poetry, many of whom perished in the Warsaw Uprising....
    's Elegia... o [chlopcu polskim]" (Elegy... about [a Polish Boy])
  • Kamau Brathwaite's Kumina (author born 1930)


Music

  • A voice will call (2009 album), Elegy (South Africa)
  • Aika (Elegy), Ken Hirai
    Ken Hirai

    is a Japanese Rhythm and blues and Pop music singer. His soulful voice and unconventional looks won him fans following his debut in 1992. Since his debut, Hirai has worked as a Model , actor, composer, lyricist, singer, spokesperson....
  • Death Hath Deprived Me, Thomas Weelkes
    Thomas Weelkes

    Thomas Weelkes was an English composer and organ . He became organist of Winchester College in 1598, moving to Chichester Cathedral. His works are chiefly vocal, and include madrigal , anthems and service ....
     on the death of Thomas Morley
    Thomas Morley

    Thomas Morley was an England composer, music theory, editor and organ of the Renaissance music, and the foremost member of the English Madrigal School....
  • December Elegy, Tristania
    Tristania (band)

    Tristania is a gothic metal band from Norway, formed in the end of 1996 by Morten Veland, Einar Moen and Kenneth Olsson....
  • Elegia from the Adiemus Project, Karl Jenkins
    Karl Jenkins

    Karl William Jenkins Order of the British Empire D.Mus. is a Wales musician and composer. Jenkins was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list for 2005....
  • Élégie, in memory of Dennis Brain, Poulenc
    Francis Poulenc

    Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a France composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music....
  • Élégie
    Élégie, Op. 24

    Gabriel Faur?'s ?l?gie pour violoncelle et orchestre, Op. 24 was written in 1880. The piece features a sad and somber opening and climaxes with an intense, fast-paced section that symbolizes the despair of love....
    , Gabriel Fauré
    Gabriel Fauré

    Gabriel Urbain Faur? was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers....
  • Élégie, Op. 3, No. 1, Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conducting. He was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, the last great representative of Russian late Romantic music in classical music....
  • Élégie
    Élégie

    ?l?gie is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's ?l?gie for solo viola ....
    , ballet by George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's eponymous solo for viola
  • Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
    Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

    Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a song cycle with music by Janet Hood and lyrics and additional text by Bill Russell . The work features songs and monologues inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology....
  • Elegy, Lacuna Coil
    Lacuna Coil

    Lacuna Coil is an Italy gothic metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, the band was inspired by the combination of Gothic aesthetics imagery and music, and the members have been known, musically, for composing midtempo songs consisting of guitar lines overlaid with prominent key...
  • Elegy, Alan Rawsthorne
    Alan Rawsthorne

    Alan Rawsthorne was a United Kingdom composer....
  • Elegy
    Elegy (EP)

    Elegy is a Maxi single/EP by symphonic metal band Leaves' Eyes. It was released on May 2nd, 2005. Almost all vocals are by Liv Kristine, with some backing "growls" by Alexander Krull....
    , Leaves' Eyes
    Leaves' Eyes

    Leaves' Eyes is a symphonic metal gothic metal band with folk music elements from Norway and Germany assembled in 2003 in music, shortly before singer Liv Kristine was fired from Theatre of Tragedy....
  • Elegy for Elsabet, The Weakerthans
    The Weakerthans

    The Weakerthans are an award-winning four-piece Canada indie rock band that blends punk rock with folk rock....
  • Elegy for Gump Worsley, The Weakerthans
    The Weakerthans

    The Weakerthans are an award-winning four-piece Canada indie rock band that blends punk rock with folk rock....
  • Elegy, for orchestra, John Corigliano
    John Corigliano

    John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York....
  • Elegy, Jethro Tull (band)
    Jethro Tull (band)

    Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
    , Stormwatch (album)
    Stormwatch (album)

    Stormwatch is an album by the rock group Jethro Tull and is considered the last in the trilogy of folk-rock albums by Jethro Tull .The album deals with the deterioration of the environmental ethics, warning of an Apocalypse future if mankind does not cease its drive for economic growth and pay attention to nature....
  • Fire and Rain
    Fire and Rain

    "Fire and Rain" is a folk/rock song written and performed by James Taylor. As the signature single on his second album, Sweet Baby James, the song engendered widespread attention for him....
    , James Taylor
    James Taylor

    James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
  • For A Dancer, Jackson Browne
    Jackson Browne

    Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
  • Goodbye My Lover
    Goodbye My Lover

    "Goodbye My Lover" is a pop rock song written by United Kingdom singer James Blunt and Sacha Skarbek for Blunt's debut album Back to Bedlam ....
    , James Blunt
    James Blunt

    James Blunt is an England Acoustic music folk pop singer-songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam, and single releases, especially "You're Beautiful", brought him to fame in 2005....
  • Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Charles Mingus
    Charles Mingus

    Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
  • Lacrimosa
    Lacrimosa

    Lacrimosa is a duo led by German Tilo Wolff, the main composer, and Finnish Anne Nurmi, currently based in Switzerland, but originally from Finland....
    , Regina Spektor
    Regina Spektor

    Regina Spektor is a Russia-born American singer-songwriter and piano. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village, Manhattan....
  • Mort tu as navré de ton dart, Johannes Ockeghem
    Johannes Ockeghem

    Johannes Ockeghem was the most famous composer of the Franco-Flemish School in the last half of the 15th century, and is often considered the most influential composer between Guillaume Dufay and Josquin des Prez....
     on the death of Gilles Binchois
    Gilles Binchois

    Gilles Binchois, also known as Gilles de Binche or Gilles de Bins , was a Franco-Flemish School composer, one of the earliest members of the Burgundian School, and one of the three most famous composers of the early 15th century....
  • Nymphes des bois
    Nymphes des bois

    Nymphes des bois, also known as La D?ploration de Johannes Ockeghem, is a lament composed by Josquin des Prez on the occasion of the death of his predecessor Johannes Ockeghem in February 1497....
    , Josquin des Prez
    Josquin Des Prez

    Josquin des Prez , often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Franco-Flemish School composer of the Renaissance music. He is also known as Josquin Desprez, a French rendering of Dutch language "Josken Van De Velde", diminutive of "Joseph Van De Velde" , and Latinized as Josquinus Pratensis, alternatively Jodocus Pratens...
     on the death of Johannes Ockeghem
    Johannes Ockeghem

    Johannes Ockeghem was the most famous composer of the Franco-Flemish School in the last half of the 15th century, and is often considered the most influential composer between Guillaume Dufay and Josquin des Prez....
  • Elegy
    Stormwatch (album)

    Stormwatch is an album by the rock group Jethro Tull and is considered the last in the trilogy of folk-rock albums by Jethro Tull .The album deals with the deterioration of the environmental ethics, warning of an Apocalypse future if mankind does not cease its drive for economic growth and pay attention to nature....
    , Jethro Tull
    Jethro Tull (band)

    Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
  • Tol'ko On Ne Vernulsya iz Boya (But He Didn't Return from Battle), Vladimir Vysotsky
    Vladimir Vysotsky

    Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was an iconic Russian singer, songwriter, poet, and actor whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Russian culture....
  • Two Choral Elegies Op.2, Lowell Liebermann
    Lowell Liebermann

    'Lowell Liebermann' is an American composer, pianist and Conducting.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at the Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op....
  • Ye Sacred Muses
    Ye Sacred Muses

    Ye Sacred Muses is William Byrd's Musical elegy on the death of his colleague and sometime mentor, Thomas Tallis. It is scored for 5 vv .The words are:-*...
    , William Byrd
    William Byrd

    William Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance music. He cultivated many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, Keyboard instrument and consort music...
     on the death of Thomas Tallis
    Thomas Tallis

    Thomas Tallis was an English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician in Tudor period. He occupies a primary place in anthologies of English church music, and is considered among the best of its earliest composers....
  • An American Elegy, Frank Ticheli
    Frank Ticheli

    Frank Ticheli is an United States composer of orchestral, choir, chamber music, and concert band works. He lives in Los Angeles, California, where he is a Professor of music composition at the University of Southern California....
  • Elegi, Lars Winnerbäck
    Lars Winnerbäck

    Lars Winnerb?ck, Lars Mattias Winnerb?ck , , often called Lasse, is a Sweden singer and songwriter. He was born in Stockholm but spent his childhood in Link?ping, where he attended Katedralskolan , before moving back to Stockholm in 1996, the same year he released his first album, Dans med sv?ra steg ....
  • Elégie, Jules Massenet
    Jules Massenet

    Jules Massenet was a France composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era....
    , based on the text by Louis Gallet
    Louis Gallet

    Louis Gallet was an inexhaustible French writer of operatic librettos, plays, romances, memoirs, pamphlets, and innumerable articles, who is remembered above all for his adaptations of fiction—and Scripture— to provide librettos of cantatas and opera, notably by composers Georges Bizet, Camille Saint-Sa?ns and Jules Massenet....
  • Élégie, Movement 3, Serenade, Tchaikovsky
  • Elegy, Frail Words Collapse
    Frail Words Collapse

    Frail Words Collapse is the second studio album by American metalcore band As I Lay Dying . The album is their first release on the record label Metal Blade Records....
    , As I Lay Dying
    As I Lay Dying (band)

    As I Lay Dying is an American Grammy Award-nominated metalcore band from San Diego, California, formed in 2000. Their band name derives from the novel by William Faulkner with As I Lay Dying ....
  • Elegy, Inspection 12
    Inspection 12

    Inspection 12 is a pop punk band from Jacksonville, Florida....
  • Even Braver, Even Stronger (An American Elegy), Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
    Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

    Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, or simply The Big Phat Band, is a Grammy-nominated 18-piece Jazz ensemble based in California and led by Gordon Goodwin....
  • Red (Elegy), Dave Carter
    Dave Carter

    Dave Carter was an United States folk music singer and songwriter who described his style as "post-modern mythic American folk music." He was one half of the duo Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, who were heralded as the new "voice of modern folk music" in the months before Carter's unexpected death in July 2002....
  • God's Son
    God's Son

    God's Son is the sixth studio album by Hip hop music Rapping Nas, released December 13, 2002 on the Columbia Records-imprint label Ill Will Records....
    , Nas
    Nas

    Nasir Jones, , , better known by his stage name Nas, , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapping and actor. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was born and raised in the Queensbridge, Queens housing projects in New York City....
  • Elegy in D, (for Contrabass), Giovanni Bottesini
    Giovanni Bottesini

    Giovanni Bottesini was an Italy Romantic music composer, Conducting, and a double bass virtuoso....
  • Elegy of Emptiness, a song in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
    The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

    is an action-adventure game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was released in Japan on April 27, 2000; in North America on October 26, 2000; and in Europe on November 17, 2000....
  • Is an Elegy, Youngblood Brass Band
    Youngblood Brass Band

    The Youngblood Brass Band is a brass band from Oregon, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, United States that was started by students at Oregon High School in 1995 when they were known as the One Lard Biskit Brass Band with the name changed to the current name in 1998....
  • Summer Elegy, Richard Wright
    Richard Wright (musician)

    Richard William "Rick" Wright was an English piano, keyboardist, vocalist and songwriter, best known for his career with Pink Floyd. Wright's richly textured keyboard layers were a vital ingredient and a distinctive characteristic of Pink Floyd's sound....
  • Elegie, Patti Smith
    Patti Smith

    Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an United States singer-songwriter, poet and artist who was a highly influential component of the punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses ....
    , Horses
    Horses (album)

    Horses is the debut album by American musician Patti Smith, released in 1975 on Arista Records. The record was a key factor and major influence on the punk rock#New York scene....
  • Elegie, eF-eL, Veiligheid Eerste
  • Elegy
    Elegy (Amorphis album)

    Elegy is the third full-length album by Amorphis, and their first to feature a majority of clean vocals, sung by new vocalist Pasi Koskinen....
    , Amorphis
    Amorphis

    Amorphis is a Finland heavy metal music band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a straightforward death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other types of genres....
     Album
  • Elegy, Terminate Damnation
    Terminate Damnation

    Terminate Damnation is the debut album by Christian progressive death metal band Becoming the Archetype. The title of the album was taken from the song Terminate Damnation from the Mortification album, Scrolls of the Megilloth....
    , Becoming the Archetype
    Becoming the Archetype

    Becoming the Archetype is a Christian heavy metal music band signed to Solid State Records and Century Media Records formed in 1999 in Dacula, Georgia, Georgia....
  • Elegy, As I Lay Dying
    As I Lay Dying

    As I Lay Dying is a novel written by the American author William Faulkner. The novel was written in six weeks while Faulkner was working at a power plant, published in 1930, and described by Faulkner as a "tour de force"....
    , Frail Words Collapse
    Frail Words Collapse

    Frail Words Collapse is the second studio album by American metalcore band As I Lay Dying . The album is their first release on the record label Metal Blade Records....


Painting

  • Elegy to the Spanish Republic, Robert Motherwell
    Robert Motherwell

    Robert Motherwell was an Visual arts of the United States abstract expressionism Painting and printmaker. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston...
  • Elegía, William Adolphe Bouguereau
  • Sommerelegi (Summer Elegy), Poul Anker Bech
    Poul Anker Bech

    Poul Anker Bech is a Denmark Painting.He started painting in the 1960s and studied at The Jutland Academy of Art in Aarhus, 1966-1967. He quit his job in 1988 to become a full-time painter....


Film

  • Elegy
    Elegy (film)

    Elegy is a 2008 in film drama film directed by Spanish director Isabel Coixet and based on a Philip Milton Roth novel, The Dying Animal....
     is a 2008 film by Spanish director Isabel Coixet
    Isabel Coixet

    Isabel Coixet is a Spanish film director.She received a History B. A. at University of Barcelona. She has worked as a journalist and as a director for several television advertisements....
    , based on a Phillip Roth novel, The Dying Animal
    The Dying Animal

    The Dying Animal is a short novel by the US writer Philip Roth. It tells the story of senior literature professor David Kepesh, who is renowned for hosting a literature-themed radio show....
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See also

  • Elegiac
    Elegiac

    Elegiac refers either to those compositions that are like elegy or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. The Classical elegiac meter has two lines, making it a couplet: a line of dactylic hexameter, followed by a line of dactylic pentameter....
  • Poetry
    Poetry

    Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....