What's the difference between elogy and threnody?

Elogy


Definition:

  • (n.) The praise bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric; eulogy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The product of the mean myoid microtubule number (determined from counts at progressive intervals along the myoid) and the myoid length remains essentially constant during myoid elongation, indicating that the total quantity of microtubules in the myoid does not increase with elogation.
  • (2) Analysis of the function suggests that the molecules are elogated and dimerized in an overlapping antiparrael fashion along the c-axis.
  • (3) The stimulatory effects of these polyamines are exerted at both the stages of initiation and elogation and are more pronounced in the case of TMV or globin mRNA, amounting to approximately 2.3-fold stimulation over the polyamine-free system.
  • (4) The magnitude of the decrease is proportional to the extent of the elogation.
  • (5) We find no evidence for the involvement of discrete, electron-dense microtubular organizing centers in myoid elogation.
  • (6) The time required for the differentiation to PAS positive superficial epithelial cells or gastrin cells had a tendency to elogate after chemical sympathectomy.

Threnody


Definition:

  • (n.) A song of lamentation; a threnode.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A lament for the failed ideals of a group of 1960s Cambridge graduates who all too quickly swap their literary dreams for coffee table books and hack journalism, the play was an elegiac threnody for soiled friendship and a descent from intellectual rigour and seriousness to philistinism.
  • (2) And some of the detail of the piece is based on something that seems straight out of a sci-fi movie: Penderecki wired up psychiatric patients to encephalogram machines and played them an earlier piece of his, the Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, and then translated the graphs of their brain-waves as they reacted to the music into the textures of Polymorphia .
  • (3) Polymorphia and Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima were written by Penderecki in the early 60s.
  • (4) But threnodies are not an argument, and memories are definitely not facts (Hobsbawm's pithy condemnation of oral history, delivered at a conference where I was due to speak, was terrifying).
  • (5) Even if you hear Penderecki's pieces on their own, away from the films, it's easy to understand the appeal of music such as Polymorphia or his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima .
  • (6) But because of the complexity of what's happening – particularly in pieces such as Threnody and Polymorphia, and how the sounds are bouncing around the concert hall, it becomes a very beautiful experience when you're there.
  • (7) There's another side to the liberation in Penderecki's music: the visual impact of his scores, the physical material musicians use to play pieces such as Fluorescences or the Threnody.
  • (8) Greenwood's 48 Responses to Polymorphia is, as its title suggests, an orchestral "remix" of the earlier work, while Popcorn Superhet Receiver was inspired by Threnody.

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