keening Definition

wails, lullaby, mournful, plangent, quavering, plaintive, dirge, whispery, tremolos, yowl, shrilling, guttural, lilting, yelps, melancholy, trebly, mewl, thrum, tinkles, trilling, tremulous, glissandos, basso, flutelike, tinkly, warble, shrieks, dulcet, descant, sonorous, melody, staccato, tintinnabulation, timbre, crescendos, clangorous, falsetto, cacophonic, yawp, lyricism, caterwaul, sepulchral, obbligato, breathy, diminuendo, squalling, rasp, pizzicato, songlike, fortissimo, lamentations, vocals, croaking, basso profundo, droning, throaty, sopranino, chorded, melancholic, ondes martenot, reedy, songful, mellifluous, elegiac, tessitura, pianissimo, adagios, arpeggios, haunting, throb, moans, whinnies, toneless, incantatory, tympani, intonation, screeching, dissonant, doleful, tunelessly, alto, soulfully, piercingly, raspy, melodiously, altissimo, vibrato, toccata, syncopated, handclaps, sonority, poeticism, howl, cawing, contrabassoon, cor anglais, chromaticism, dreaminess, backbeat, muffled,