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    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...
    14 KB (1,633 words) - 23:10, 19 September 2024
  • Sleep, Dearie, Sleep is a traditional Scottish lament for the bagpipes. The tune is used as a taps signal in Highland army regiments. It gained prominence...
    4 KB (367 words) - 17:20, 6 May 2024
  • Deor (redirect from Deor's Lament)
    because of its meditations on transience. It can also be considered a traditional lament and poem of consolation. Christian consolation poems, however, usually...
    10 KB (1,342 words) - 06:49, 27 January 2024
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    poet. She was the main composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, a traditional lament in Irish described (in its written form) as the greatest poem composed...
    9 KB (1,239 words) - 21:42, 16 July 2024
  • early 1960s and recorded first by Paxton in 1964. It is based on the traditional lament song "The Leaving of Liverpool". The song was released on Paxton's...
    9 KB (749 words) - 17:45, 7 September 2024
  • the nations. Laments are traditionally performed without musical instruments. There were no particular lamenting songs, and when lamenting women would...
    5 KB (495 words) - 15:43, 18 April 2024
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    hatt' einen Kameraden" ("I had a comrade"), is a traditional German anti-war song and soldiers' lament. The lyrics were written by German romantic poet...
    13 KB (1,049 words) - 19:17, 31 August 2024
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    "Lady Franklin's Lament" (also known as "Lord Franklin" and "The Sailor's Dream") is a traditional folk ballad indexed by George Malcolm Laws (Laws K09)...
    9 KB (1,035 words) - 16:40, 29 May 2024
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    Keening (Irish: caoineadh, pronounced [ˈkiːnʲə]) is a traditional form of vocal lament for the dead in the Gaelic Celtic tradition, known to have taken...
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  • Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire or the Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire is an Irish keen composed in the main by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, a member of the Gaelic...
    9 KB (1,094 words) - 17:44, 3 June 2024
  • "Railroaders' Lament") is a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the 1960s folk revival. The simple repetitive lyrics offer a lament by a traveler...
    25 KB (2,508 words) - 09:07, 13 September 2024
  • Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism is a 1965 essay of political philosophy by Canadian philosopher George Grant. The essay examined...
    7 KB (691 words) - 14:56, 16 January 2024
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    Folk music (redirect from Traditional music)
    medias res plot developments. Other forms of traditional narrative verse relate the outcomes of battles or lament tragedies or natural disasters. Sometimes...
    163 KB (16,421 words) - 22:04, 10 September 2024
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    arms of Brittany Pierre Choqué pronounced for the first time the traditional lament: La reine est morte!, la reine est morte!, la reine est morte! (The...
    63 KB (7,652 words) - 03:55, 16 September 2024
  • The Orphan's Lament is an album by the Tuvan musical group Huun-Huur-Tu. It was released in 1994. The group supported the album with a North American tour...
    6 KB (502 words) - 20:46, 7 May 2024
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    Elegy (category Laments)
    elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "for...
    10 KB (1,172 words) - 11:17, 11 May 2024
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    space Literature scholar Peter Schwenger further stated that "the traditional lament of the ephemeral object" is one of sadness at witnessing beauty fade...
    76 KB (7,810 words) - 17:42, 3 August 2024
  • Guardian's Brigid Delaney wrote that the album is more comparable to "a traditional lament" than popular pieces of music about death such as Nick Cave and the...
    101 KB (8,571 words) - 03:17, 21 July 2024
  • decision process that led to the real-life performance of the traditional Scottish lament "Sleep, Dearie, Sleep" at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II....
    3 KB (348 words) - 00:13, 25 May 2024
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    The Lament for Ur, or Lamentation over the city of Ur is a Sumerian lament composed around the time of the fall of Ur to the Elamites and the end of the...
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