funeral song
Lament for deceased
A funeral song is music performed at a burial or memorial service, typically solemn and mournful.
The term covers hymns, dirges, and contemporary songs chosen to honor the deceased: They played his favorite funeral song as the casket was lowered.
Some funeral songs have become standards at services, while others are personally selected by families.
- keeningVocal mourning for dead
- requiemMass for the deceased
- threnodyMemorial song of grief
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lamentMournful expression of grief
dirge · elegy · monody · mourning · farewell · eulogy · choral · remembrance · final farewell · laying to rest · psalm · hymn · church bells · grief · epitaph · hush · obituary · grave
- lamentswailing, keen, keening, lament, moaning
- folk versefolk ballad, nursery rhyme, lullaby, ballad, sea shanty
- oral poetrylament, eulogy, panegyric, encomium, lay
- Romanian musichora, traditional music, folk music, folk dance music, wedding music
- tribal songsceremonial songs, ritual songs, tribal songs, tribal chants, sacred songs
- songssongs, tune, folk ballads, melody, ballads
funeral songwedding march
Ceremonial aisle music
birthday song · wedding song · anniversary song · graduation song · lullaby
funeral songvictory song
Celebratory tune after winning
jubilee · party anthem · fight song · drinking song · triumphal march