processional music
Entrance ceremony soundtrack
Processional music accompanies a formal entrance or movement of people—a bride walking down the aisle, clergy entering a sanctuary, graduates filing into a ceremony.
The tempo is typically slow and stately, designed for measured walking.
The organist began the processional music as the wedding party assembled.
The term often shortens to simply "the processional."
- coronationsSovereign installation rites
- funeralsRites for the deceased
- military marchesOrganized troop movements
- graduationsCeremonies completing formal education
- academic regaliaCeremonial university garments
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