The term "elegy" was originally used for a type of poetic metre (Elegiac metre), but is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegos, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally - which is a form of lyric poetry. An elegy can also reflect on something which seems strange or mysterious to the author. In addition, an elegy (sometimes spelled elegíe) may be a type of musical work, usually in a sad and somber attitude. It is not to be confused with a eulogy.
Literary elegies
Musical elegies
- Aika (Elegy), Ken Hirai
- Clairvoyant Elegy, Bladiator & The Orichalcon: on the OC ReMix website, part of the Final Doom remixes.
- Continuo lacrimas, Jacob van Vaet on the death of Jacob Clemens non Papa
- Death Hath Deprived Me, Thomas Weelkes on the death of Thomas Morley
- December Elegy, Tristania
- Elegia from the Adiemus Project, Karl Jenkins
- Élégie, in memory of Dennis Brain, Poulenc
- Élégie, Gabriel Fauré
- Élégie, Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Élégie, ballet by George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's eponymous solo for viola
- Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
- Elegy, Leaves' Eyes
- Elegy for Elsabet, The Weakerthans
- Elegy for Gump Worsley, The Weakerthans
- Elegy, for orchestra, John Corigliano
- Fire and Rain, James Taylor
- For A Dancer, Jackson Browne
- Goodbye My Lover, James Blunt
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Charles Mingus
- Lacrimosa, Regina Spektor
- Mort tu as navré de ton dart, Johannes Ockeghem on the death of Gilles Binchois
- Nymphes des bois, Josquin des Prez on the death of Johannes Ockeghem
- Elegy, Jethro Tull
- Ye Sacred Muses, William Byrd on the death of Thomas Tallis
- An American Elegy, Frank Ticheli
- Elegi, Lars Winnerbäck
- Elégie, Jules Massenet, based on the text by Louis Gallet
- Élégie, Movement 3, Serenade, Tchaikovsky
- Elegy, Frail Words Collapse, As I Lay Dying
- Elegy, Inspection 12
- Even Braver, Even Stronger (An American Elegy), Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
- Red (Elegy), Dave Carter
- God's Son, Nas
Elegy in Painting
Further reading
Cavitch, Max (2007). American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 081664893X.
Ramazani, Jahan (1994). Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy fom Hardy to Heaney. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226703401.
Sacks, Peter (1987). The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801834716.
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