Those are the two films this dark threnody most resembles.
Further modified in rhythm and texture, it forms the basis for the great orchestral threnody after his death.
This is not the folksy "musing" beloved of neo-hippies nor the rigid threnody of a world-wearied traditionalist.
On Foula, the vernacular architecture is a marriage of form, function and depopulation: the crumbling stone-built crofts are as sad as a sung threnody, accompanied by a solo fiddle; while the new buildings have arrived as kits.
His threnody on how those grasslands were enclosed, robbing the plains Indians of their heritage, segues naturally into a discussion of enclosure elsewhere.
In 1965, even though it showed that Jansch had mastered Davey Graham's finger-busting "Angie", Jansch's heroin threnody "Needle of Death" was extraordinarily dark fare.
Emerson also wrote a poem about Waldo, "Threnody".
They perform two intimately connected pieces: chamber versions of Strauss's "Metamorphosen," a threnody originally written for string orchestra, and of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, "Eroica," which Strauss quotes in his own work.
The Ellington medley with which the new group (featuring the alto saxophonist Charles McPherson and the trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer) performed, at the Monterey Jazz Festival that September, comes off as a threnody for him.
There is an inspired three-page threnody that begins, "It was snowing and it was snowing and it was going to snow some more," and contains a concatenation of weather-related mishaps that might have been illustrated by Edward Gorey.
All faiths have fights, but, as MacCulloch shows at intricate, thousand-page length, few have so many super-subtle shadings of dogma: wine or blood, flesh or wafer, one God in three spirits or three Gods in one; a song of children, stables, psalms, parables, and peacemakers, on the one hand, a threnody of suffering, nails, wild dogs, and damnation and risen God, on the other.
