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Like Berg's "Violin Concerto"
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elegiac
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to an elegy. 2 Expressing sorrow or mourning. n. A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegy: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elegiac \E*le"gi*ac\ (?; 277), a. [L. elegiacus, Gr. ?: cf. F. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. Elegiac griefs, and songs of love. --Mrs. Browning. Used in elegies; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death" expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
Usage examples of elegiac.
Three celebrated Elegiac poets--Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid--also belong to the Augustan age.
Strachan, Kincardineshire, where a tombstone, inscribed with some elegiac verses, has been erected to his memory.