funeral music
Solemn burial accompaniment
Funeral music is music composed or selected for funeral services and memorials.
The term covers a range from classical pieces like Chopin's funeral march to hymns, dirges, and contemporary songs chosen to honor the deceased.
The organist played funeral music as mourners filed past the casket.
The phrase also describes any music with a slow, mournful, somber quality: That song sounds like funeral music.
- dirgeMournful commemorative music
- requiemMass for the deceased
- dead marchSlow funeral music
- elegyPoem lamenting the departed
- hymnReligious song of praise
Ave Maria · mourning · somber · organ · processional · grief · lament · solemn · last rites · grave · coffin · hearse · black · weeping · memorial · chant · slow · mournful
- church musicanthems, hymnal, masses, hymnbook, canticles
- funeral customsburial, cremation, casket, mourning, wakes
- funeralsburial, cremation, casket, coffin, eulogy
- funeral homecasket, caskets, coffin, coffins, embalmer
- Roman Musictibia, lyre, tuba, tympanum, syrinx
- ancient musiclyre, pan pipes, panpipes, tibia, shofar
funeral musicwedding music
Sounds at a marriage ceremony
festive music · dance music · carnival music · graduation music · bar mitzvah music
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