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Lament

A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret, or mourning. Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about something that they regret or someone that they have lost, and they are usually accompanied by wailing, moaning and/or…

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History

Scottish laments

Lament in Ancient Greece

Musical form

Greek laments (Thrênoi, Moirológia)

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Lament

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related to Further reading · 59
Lament → Aaron Corn, Andrea Ghidoni, Andrew Dalby, ANU University Press, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Canberra, Carocci, Communicating, Dangerous Voices, Di Roy, Eight Short Segments, Expressing, Fortress, From Tragedy, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Greek Literature, Humanities Research, ISBN, John Knox Press
related to history · 25
Lament → Adonais, Batya Weinbaum, Beowulf, Book, Christian Old Testament, Elements, Hellenistic Greece, Hindu Vedas, Iliad, Iliad The, In, Jewish Tanakh, Job, Laments, Many, Matthew Arnold's, Mesopotamian City Laments, Near Eastern, Odyssey, Shelley's
related to Greek laments (Thrênoi, Moirológia) · 17
Lament → Andrea Fishman, Archived, Cambridge University Press, Epirus, Female Voices, Folk Poetry, Mani, Modern Greece, Moiroloi, Moirológia, Mοιρολόϊ, Oral Tradition, Resistance, Solidarity, Solitude, Thrênoi, Wayback MachineRoderick Beaton
related to Scottish laments · 17
Lament → Beloved Gregor, Campbells, Donald Ban, Donald Ban MacCrimmon, Dunvegan, Gaelic, Gregor MacGregor, Griogal Cridhe, Hanoverians, It, Jacobite, MacCrimmon's Lament, MacLeods, Marion Campbell, Moy, Scottish, The
see also · 12
Lament → Bible, DirgeDeath, First, Galician, Hebrew, Kinnot, KommósLament, Middle Eastern, Romanian, Second Temples, The, Tisha B'Av
related to Lament in Ancient Greece · 10
Lament → Ancient Greece, Archaic, As, Depictions, Greek, Homeric, Originally, Performed, Ritual, The
related to Musical form · 4
Lament → Baroque, It, Romantic, There
is a · 2
Lament → common form in piobaireachd music for the Scottish bagpipes, conventional fixture of baroque opera seria

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the Jewish Tanakhinstance ofThey are included in the Mesopotamian City Laments0.80text
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the lament has been a genre usually performed by womeninstance ofThey are included in the Mesopotamian City Laments0.80text
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Lamentrelated to Further readingMunro Chadwick0.60section
Lamentrelated to Further readingNora Kershaw Chadwick0.60section
Lamentrelated to Further readingThe Growth0.60section

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