Lament
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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. Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner
Jan Kochanowski with dead daughter in painting inspired by the poet's Laments
Egyptian women weeping and lamenting
Dirge
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A dirge is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as may be appropriate for performance at a funeral. Often taking the form of a brief hymn, dirges are typically shorter and less m
Lament
…a set of harmonic variations in homophonic texture, wherein the bass (Lament bass) descends through a tetrachord, usually one suggesting a minor mode. Dirge Death poem…
Dirge of Three Queens (c. 1895), by Edwin Austin Abbey, inspired by The Two Noble Kinsmen