death song
Swan song sung
A death song is a song sung by or for someone facing death, especially in Native American traditions where warriors would sing such songs before battle or execution.
The term extends to any final artistic expression or farewell: The album felt like his death song, recorded just months before he died.
A dying creature's last vocalization may also be called a death song: the death song of the swan.
- dirgeMournful commemorative music
- requiemMass for the deceased
- last ritesSacrament for the dying
- balladNarrative poem or song
- lamentMournful expression of grief
grief · funeral march · memorial service · chant · threnody · sorrow · remembrance · rest in peace · wail · ode · eulogy · elegy · gone too soon · keening · mourning · final farewell · catharsis · epitaph
- lamentslamentation, wailing, keen, keening, lament
- folk versefolk ballad, nursery rhyme, lullaby, ballad, sea shanty
- funeral musicdirge, requiem, funeral march, funeral hymns, lament
- War Poetrywar poem, battle hymn, In Flanders Fields, Owen, Sassoon
- art songthrough-composed, piano accompaniment, German poetry, Ave Maria, aubade
death songlullaby
Soothing song for babies
birthday song · wedding song · cradle song · celebration of life · graduation song
death songlullaby
Soothing song for babies
cradle song · nursery rhyme · healing song · love song · peace song
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