threnodies

Noun

threnody (plural threnodies)

1. A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.
   • The fifer actually knew but one tune "The Bonnie Blue Flag"—and did not know that well. But it was all that he had, and he played it with wearisome monotony for every camp call. . . . I never hated any piece of music as I came to hate that threnody of treason.1879, John McElroy, chapter 44, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

   Synonyms:

   dirge, elegy, lamentation