funeral marches
Solemn death music
Funeral marches are slow, solemn pieces of music composed for or associated with funeral processions.
The tempo is deliberately measured, often with heavy, regular beats suggesting footsteps.
Famous examples include Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 and Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony.
Figuratively, anything proceeding with grim inevitability might be called a funeral march: The team's losing season felt like a funeral march toward elimination.
- cortegeCeremonial attendant procession
- dirgeMournful commemorative music
- mourningPeriod following loss
- black armbandWorn grief marker
- requiemMass for the deceased
elegy · obsequies · procession · adagio · threnody · bereavement · final farewell · lament · solemnity · Chopin · ceremonial music · burial rites · interment · last respects · loss · pallbearers · mortality · grief
- mourningburial, grief, bereavement, wake, grieving
- Early JazzNew Orleans jazz, Dixieland, hot jazz, ragtime, Louis Armstrong
- Historic Marches
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Ceremonial aisle music
bridal processions · fanfares · festival music · birth announcements · dance music
funeral marchesgallops
Runs at top speed
quicksteps · jigs · reels · tarantellas · allegros
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