funeral dirges
Somber burial music
Funeral dirges are slow, mournful songs or pieces of music performed at funerals or memorial services.
The term combines the occasion with the musical form—a dirge being any solemn lament for the dead.
Funeral dirges set a tone of grief and reflection: The bagpiper played traditional funeral dirges as mourners gathered at the graveside.
- lamentMournful expression of grief
- requiemMass for the deceased
- elegyPoem lamenting the departed
- mourningPeriod following loss
- wailingProlonged mournful crying
keening · hymn · chant · grief · sorrow · final farewell · procession · burial · coffin · pallbearers · black · black armband · veils · tolling · bells · solemn · mournful · weeping
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Music celebrating a win
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Cylindrical winding devices
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