Ratapan

Ratapan adalah sebuah ekspresi besar dari rasa duka, sering kali dalam bentuk musik, syair atau lagu. Duka sering kali menimbulkan penyesalan atau rasa berkabung. Ratapan juga dapat diekspresikan dalam bentuk verbal, di mana seseorang akan bmeratap suatu hal yang disesalkan oleh mereka atau orang yang meninggalkan mereka.

Catatan

Sumber 
 Richard Church, The Lamendation of Military Campaigns. PDQ: Steve Ruling, 2000.
 Margaret Alexiou, The ritual lament in Greek tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
 Walter Brueggeman, An Unsettling God. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009
 Michael Coogan, A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
 H. Munro Chadwick, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, The growth of literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1932–40), e.g. vol. 2 p. 229.
 Andrew Dalby, Rediscovering Homer (New York: Norton, 2006. ) pp. 141–143.
 Gail Holst-Warhaft, Dangerous voices: women's laments and Greek literature. London: Routledge, 1992. .
 Nancy C. Lee, Lyrics of Lament: From Tragedy to Transformation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010.
 Claus Westermann, Praise and Lament in the Psalms. Westminster: John Knox Press, 1981. .
 Marcello Sorce Keller, “Expressing, Communicating, Sharing and Representing Grief and Sorrow with 	Organised Sound (Musings in Eight Short Segments)”, in Stephen Wild, Di Roy, Aaron Corn and Ruth Lee Martin (eds), One Common Thread – The Musical 	World of Lament – Thematic Issue of Humanities Research. Canberra, ANU University Press, Vol. XIX, No. 3. 2013, 3-14

Pranala luar 

 Alexiou Margaret, The ritual lament in greek tradition, CUP, 1974
 Andrea Fishman, "Thrênoi to Moirológia: Female Voices of Solitude, Resistance, and Solidarity" Oral Tradition, 23/2 (2008): 267-295 
 Roderick Beaton, Folk Poetry of Modern Greece, Cambridge University Press, 2004
 Greek lament song (Mοιρολόϊ - Moiroloi) from Mani, performed in a funeral
 Greek lament song (Mοιρολόϊ - Moiroloi) from Epirus, instrumental]

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