mourning song
Lament for deceased
A mourning song is music composed or performed to express grief, typically at funerals or memorial services or following a death.
The term encompasses traditional laments, dirges, and elegies across cultures: The women gathered to sing mourning songs for the departed.
Some mourning songs become cultural touchstones, performed at state funerals or national tragedies.
- dirgeMournful commemorative music
- lamentMournful expression of grief
- elegyPoem lamenting the departed
- requiemMass for the deceased
- funeralService honoring the dead
grief · weeping · sorrow · hymn · wailing · keening · eulogy · in memoriam · threnody · grave · burial · laying to rest · tears · widow · black · veil · loss · death
- lamentslamentation, wailing, keen, keening, lament
- elegieselegies, lament, laments, dirges, death poem
- funeral musicdirge, requiem, funeral march, funeral hymns, death march
- tribal songstribal chants, victory chant, corn dance, healing chant, corroboree
- love songsromantic ballad, love ballad, serenade, love duet, love lyrics
- folk songsfolk ballads, lullaby, shanty, ballads, sea shanty
mourning songvictory song
Celebratory tune after winning
love song · wedding song · hymn of praise · hallelujah chorus · birthday song
mourning songwedding march
Ceremonial aisle music
graduation song · victory march · carnival music · dance anthem · party song
mourning songvictory song
Celebratory tune after winning
dance song · song of praise · triumphal march · paean · fight song
mourning, song, mourn, mourns, mourned, mourner, mourners, mournful, mournfully