war song
Martial musical composition
A war song is music composed to rally troops, commemorate battles, or stir martial spirit.
Some are military anthems sung by soldiers; others are popular songs that capture wartime sentiment on the home front: The war songs of the 1940s still evoke that era.
War songs may celebrate victory, mourn the fallen, or protest the fighting itself.
- battle cryShout to rally fighters
- call to armsUrgent summons to fight
- rallying cryPhrase uniting supporters
- battle hymnSong for warfare
- marchRhythmic group walk
military march · victory march · anthem · army · band of brothers · troop morale · oral tradition · independence movement · martial · bravery · valor · home front · chant · fallen soldiers · drum cadence · grief · ceremonial music · keening
- battle criesbattle cry, charge, hooah, banzai, oorah
- folk songsfolk ballads, lullaby, shanty, ballads, sea shanty
- folk versefolk ballad, nursery rhyme, lullaby, ballad, sea shanty
- War Poetrybattle hymn, In Flanders Fields, Owen, Sassoon, Brooke
- oral poetrylament, eulogy, panegyric, encomium, lay
- tribal songstribal chants, victory chant, corn dance, healing chant, corroboree
war songlullaby
Soothing song for babies
cradle song · meditation music · relaxation music · healing song · ambient music
war songpeace song
Music promoting nonviolence
love ballad · antiwar song · protest song · healing song · cradle song
war songlullaby
Soothing song for babies
protest song · antiwar song · love song · lament · dirge
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