Elegy (disambiguation)

An elegy is a poem of mourning.

Elegy, Elegie, or Elegies may also refer to:

Art

• Élégie, a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Literature

• Any poem written in elegiac couplets
• Elegies by Propertius (ca. 50-15 BC)
• Elegy, a 1586 poem by Chidiock Tichborne
• "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", a 1751 poem by Thomas Gray
• Elegy, the opening poem in Leonard Cohen’s first collection Let Us Compare Mythologies from 1956.

Film and television

• Elégia, a 1965 film by Hungarian director Zoltán Huszárik
• Elegy (film), a 2008 film by Spanish director Isabel Coixet
• "Elegy" (The Twilight Zone), an episode of The Twilight Zone
• "Elegy" (The X-Files), an episode of The X-Files

Music

Classical

• "Elegy", Russian song by Modest Mussorgsky
• Elegy, by Elliott Carter
• Elegy (Corigliano), by John Corigliano
• Elegy, by Hubert Parry
• Elegy, for guitar by Alan Rawsthorne
• Elegia (Madetoja), Op. 4/1, a 1909 composition for string orchestra by Leevi Madetoja
• Elegie (Schoeck), Op.36 song cycle for baritone and chamber orchestra by Othmar Schoeck
• Élégie (ballet), a ballet by George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's Élégie for solo viola
• Élégie (Massenet), an 1873 piece for cello and orchestra
• Élégie (Fauré), an 1883 piece for cello and orchestra
• Elegies (Busoni), a 1908 series of pieces
• Elegy, Op.58, an orchestral work for strings by Edward Elgar
• Élégie (Stravinsky), a 1944 piece for solo viola
• Elegies (William Finn), a 2003 song cycle
• Élégie, by Johann Kaspar Mertz
• Élégie pour cor et piano, FP 168, by Francis Poulenc
• Élégie pour 2 pianos (en accords alternés), FP 175, by Francis Poulenc
• Elegy, by Dr. George Thalben-Ball, 1960

There is a little boy named Bangie Switz who composed his own élégie (op.1 no.1 in d minor). He wish that his job will be guitarist, and his élégie is a guitar-piano combination song.

Popular bands

• Elegy (band), a Dutch power metal musical group
• Elegies (J-pop), a J-pop musical group

Albums

• Elegy (Julian Lloyd Webber album), a 1998 album
• Elegy (The Nice album), a 1971 album
• Elegy (John Zorn album), a 1991 album
• Elegy (Amorphis album), a 1996 album
• Elegies (Machine Head DVD), a 2005 DVD
• Elegy (EP), a 2005 EP by Leaves' Eyes

Songs

• "Elegy", a song by Edge of Sanity from their 1994 album Purgatory Afterglow
• "Elegy", a song by As I Lay Dying from their 2003 album Frail Words Collapse
• "Elegy", a song by Intronaut from the 2010 album Valley of Smoke
• "Elegies", a song by Make Them Suffer from the 2012 album Neverbloom
• "Elegy", a song by Patti Smith from her 1975 album Horses (album)
• "Elegy", a song by Jethro Tull from the 1979 album Stormwatch (album)
• "Élégie", an arrangement of Massenet's Élégie by Art Tatum