lamenting Definition In English

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  • Lewy's lamenting of missing originals would be a concern of any objective scholar.

  • With a lamenting voice, they tell a story full of painful, sudden reversals of fortune, and if one didn't interrupt them, it would seem that their story would never end.

  • A lamenting theme for keening oboes framed more flowing material, where a dream-like atmosphere was occasionally interrupted by the intervention of a 'garden gate' type bell.

  • Reflecting on a flute sound ' devoid of expression', he contemplates the possibility that the flutist, unlike the lamenting clarinettist, or the soulful violinist, routinely plays dead.

  • Medora does not suppress her feelings: she spends her time lamenting in a tower, waiting for her lover to return.

  • Babbitt was lamenting how the 'general public is largely unaware and uninterested in' contemporary music.

  • These writers are representative of a wide discussion of the perceivedly parlous state of church psalmody and sight singing but, despite much lamenting, few specific solutions were offered.

  • If the semitone figure is stereotypical in its depiction of a lamenting sigh, then the scale spanning a tritone serves as the archetypal musical marker of the diabolical.

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