mourning songs
Laments for dead
Mourning songs are musical compositions expressing grief over death or loss.
The term encompasses funeral dirges, laments, and elegies across cultures—from traditional keening to contemporary memorial ballads.
The choir sang mourning songs at the graveside.
The phrase can also describe any music with a sorrowful, lamenting quality: His album is full of mourning songs for a failed marriage.
- lamentMournful expression of grief
- threnodyMemorial song of grief
- keeningVocal mourning for dead
- dirgeMournful commemorative music
- requiemMass for the deceased
spirituals · slow tempo · sorrow · plaintive · mournful · cathartic · grief · funeral rites · laying to rest · elegy · memorial service · candlelit vigil · somber · black armbands · wailing · weeping · tear-stained cheeks · melancholic
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- church musicanthems, hymnal, masses, hymnbook, canticles
- Civil War songsDixie, Lorena, battle hymns, war ballads, Taps
- folk songsfolk ballads, lullaby, shanty, love song, work song
- funeral musicdirge, requiem, funeral march, funeral hymns, death march
- jazz funeralsecond line, brass band, parade, grand marshal, umbrella
mourning songsvictory songs
Music celebrating a win
dance music · love songs · drinking songs · festive music · cheers
mourning songswedding songs
Music for marriage ceremonies
graduation songs · harvest songs · fight songs · bridal chorus · wedding march