Lamentation (from Latin lamentatio, meaning lament, wailing) is a rhetorical device that originated in ancient rhetoric, and in musicology, it is a term for a musical genre of the same name.
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Lamentation (from Latin lamentatio, meaning lament, wailing) is a rhetorical device that originated in ancient rhetoric, and in musicology, it is a term for a musical genre of the same name.