What is "elegies"

Elegy \El"e*gy\, n.; pl. Elegies. [L. elegia, Gr. ?, fem. sing. (cf. ?, prop., neut. pl. of ? a distich in elegiac verse), fr. ? elegiac, fr. ? a song of mourning.] A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
--Shak.

n. (elegy English)

is the Hello! Project 2005 shuffle group consisting of Ai Takahashi and Reina Tanaka of Morning Musume, along with Melon Kinenbi's Ayumi Shibata and Country Musume's Mai Satoda. The name comes from the word elegy. They released the single "" on June 22, 2005.

Elegies is a song cycle by William Finn about the deaths of friends and family and is a response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Elegies premiered at Lincoln Center in 2003 and has been performed in many other venues.

Elegies is a live DVD released by Machine Head, recorded at the Brixton Academy in London. The concert was recorded in December 2004, but the DVD was released on October 11, 2005. As well as the London concert, the DVD also features film clips and a short documentary about the making of Through the Ashes of Empires.

Elegies , BV 249, by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni is a set of solo piano pieces which can be played as a cycle or separately. Initially published in 1908 with six pieces, it was subsequently expanded to seven by the addition of the Berceuse ( BV 252). The set of seven takes just over 40 minutes to play.