'Monody' definitions:
Definition of 'monody'
(from WordNet)
noun
Music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) [syn: monophony, monophonic music, monody] [ant: concerted music, polyphonic music, polyphony]
Definition of 'Monody'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'monody'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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