plangent, mournful, melancholy, mellifluous, elegiac, melancholic, quavery, breathy, bluesy, soulful, dulcet, heartfelt, melodious, falsetto, whispery, wistful, doleful, haunting, melodic, tuneful, sorrowful, incantatory, twangy, dirgelike, songlike, throaty, tremulous, winsome, ruminative, poignant, toneless, staccato, poetic, dreamy, declamatory, songful, resonant, jaunty, lyrical, ethereal, pensive, sonorous, lovelorn, tinkly, syncopated, flutelike, lachrymose, jazzy, evocative, rhapsodic, melismatic, warble, jangly, croaky, guttural, raspy, lugubrious, anguished, basso profundo, polytonal, kyrie eleison, pianissimo, fluttery, dissonant, cor anglais, scat singing, plainsong, unmelodic, beguiling, rueful, cadenced, wordless, reedy, heartrending, stentorian, countrified, folky, languid, onomatopoeic, limpid, clangorous, singable, melodramatic, propulsive, mellow, antiphonal, maudlin, chorded, strophic, languorous, exhortatory, eloquent, hummable, nasal twang, hypnotic, fortissimo, pointillistic, sardonic, growly, earthy, catchy, microtonal, scribble, waking, alas, an, blank, bunny, captive, chrysalis, cinder, close, constance, dad, daub, dear, dido, dog, drunkard, drunks, earnest, eliza, piteous, dolorous, quavering, querulous, pitched, reproachful, tuneless, unheard

howl, plaintively, streptopelia turtur, whimper, whine, whining

mournful, sorrowful