What is "elegia"

"Elegia" is a piece composed by Peter Hook, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris, and Bernard Sumner for the British rock band New Order. Unusually for New Order, it is an instrumental and a waltz. It can be found on their third studio album, Low-Life (1985). Elegia is Greek for elegy; the band have stated that the song was written in memory of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the band's former incarnation, Joy Division.

Elegia is a genus of grass-like plants in the family Restionaceae described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1771. The entire genus is endemic to Cape Province in South Africa. Some are grown as ornamentals in gardens.

Species

Club “Elegia”—the literary and art association established in Nakhodka in 1970, unites a wide range of poets, writers (including members of the Russian Union of writers), artists and musicians. Founders of the club, Dina Usataya and Stanislav Kabelev, remain at the head of the club.

Elegia is a song by the British electro/rock band, New Order. Elegia may also refer to:

• The Latin term for " elegy"

As a biological genus name:

• Elegia (moth), a snout moth genus in subfamily Phycitinae
• Elegia (plant), a South African plant genus in family Restionaceae

Elegia is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Ragonot in 1887.

Elegia (In English: Elegy; occasionally with the Finnish subtitle , or Sadness), Op. 4/1, is a composition for string orchestra by the Finnish composer Leevi Madetoja, who wrote the piece in 1909 during his student years. On 10 January 1910, Robert Kajanus, chief conductor of the Helsinki Orchestral Society, premiered the Elegia to great acclaim, with the piece described as the "first master work" of a budding "natural orchestral composer". Madetoja subsequently designated the Elegia as the first number in his four-movement Sinfoninen sarja (Symphonic Suite), Op. 4, which the Helsinki Orchestral Society performed in its entirety under the composer's baton on 26 September 1910. The suite's three other numbers are virtually unknown, and the Elegia typically is performed as a stand-alone concert piece. Stylistically reminiscent of Tchaikovsky, it is, to date, Madetoja's most recorded and well-known orchestral composition, as well as the most enduringly popular of his many miniatures.