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UK
/ɹˈɛkwɪˌɛm/
]
[ US /ˈɹɛkwiəm/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛkwiəm/ ]
NOUN
- a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
How To Use requiem In A Sentence
- Pasolini clearly did not intend Salò as a late work, much as Mozart did not design his requiem as adumbrative lament.
- Let's hope that classical music in North America is not yet ready for a requiem!
- Mr. Tritle's wish-list for future projects includes great Romantic canvases like César Franck's "Les Béatitudes" and Charles Gounod's epic oratorio "Mors et Vita," as well as 20th-century landmarks like the Britten "War Requiem" and Janáček's Glagolitic Mass. The Master of Many Choruses
- Mozart's ‘last words’ were his attempt to produce the sound of the kettledrums in his Requiem.
- His Requiem Mass was celebrated in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- Those who have taken their own lives while of sound mind, however, would normally be denied a Christian burial and requiems.
- The minimal, magisterial formal aesthetic of the latter though is clearly of another realm to Requiem's crude, lazy, sledgehammer style, and is infinitely more riveting and rewarding.
- Burial took place in Butlerstown cemetery on Thursday last, in the presence of a huge concourse of mourners, following Requiem Mass.
- This quartet featured a stunning, slashing, angry modern-dance dialogue between two dancers, then a requiem for fallen comrades.
- For someone reason, I got it into my head the other day that he only wrote a few symphonies and operas, the odd piano concerto, and the Requiem.