funeral march

NOUN
  1. a slow march to be played for funeral processions
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  • Portsmouth's chimes sound ominously like a funeral march. Times, Sunday Times
  • Funeral marches abound in Mahler, and they don't always mean literal death.
  • But what if Interstate 57 looks decidedly Roman or Subcontinental — or imagine a hysterical combination of a Hindu cremation ritual, a New Orleans jazz funeral march, Jim Crace's quivering, and a High Baroque Requiem mass plus the nonstop visual, aromatic and aural assault from this thanatological mixture. Archive 2006-02-01
  • Portsmouth's chimes sound ominously like a funeral march. Times, Sunday Times
  • The established T'ang Quartet, also from Singapore, excelled in two contemporary works, the folk-inspired Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March by yet another 1930s boy, Aulis Sallinen (b 1935), and the third string quartet by Bright Sheng (b 1955) which mixed Chinese and western techniques to nimbly embroidered effect. Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues – review
  • Much like this post, the music on this album is also a real mixed bag (i.e. polka, funeral march, folklore fantasy, anthemic, marching, folk, rock) ... easy listening while you learn more about all things Conan! Archive 2010-06-01
  • In the competition for most doleful, Larson himself mentions the Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony, Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 and several funeral marches and dirgelike hymns such as "Nearer My God to Thee. Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda
  • You be here today and you be gone tomorrow," says one reveler, part of a brass band-accompanied funeral march locals know as the second line. Aliens, Operas and a Blank Slate of Documentaries
  • He builds so much power into this section, that it considerably weakens the force of the funeral march, so that when it returns, it does so with greatly diminished life.
  • There follows a mournful Largo second movement that is, in effect, a funeral march.
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