But there is also a newly wistful, elegiac note here.

A leading British authority on jewellery ended her history on an elegiac note:

His last years were marred by mental decline, so the show ends on an elegiac note.

"Jukebox for Alvin" atypically begins, rather than ends, on an elegiac note.

For them, Wayne always struck an elegiac note.

Hay was a master of the elegiac note.

Each story is told in a flashback, uses war as a subtext and ends on an elegiac note of melancholy.

It was the perfect elegiac note, and it set the stage for the valorous image that remains.

His earlier songs are distinguished from those of his model, Béranger, chiefly by their elegiac note.

The young Edward doesn't disagree, but he concludes on an elegiac note with their lonely deaths.