Category:Laments
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A lament or lamentation is a work expressing grief, regret, or mourning. Many of the oldest poems in human history have been laments, and a rich tradition of musical settings has followed.
Subcategories include:
- the composer elegy (a/k/a epitaphium)
- the royalty elegy (often a monarch)
- the lover's lament on themes including the lover's death, or abandonment by one's lover
- the religious lament, such as Jeremiah's Lamentations
(See also the Wikipedia article on laments.)
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The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total.
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- David's Lament for Jonathan (Gustav Holst)
- David's Lamentation (William Billings)
- Death hath deprived me (Thomas Weelkes)
- Defunctum Charites (Jacob Regnart)
- Dido's tears (Antonio Politano)
- A Dirge for Two Veterans (Gustav Holst)
- Do not stand at my grave (Joachim Kelecom)
- Dulces exuviae (Anonymous)
- Dum vastos Adriae fluctus (Jacquet de Mantua)