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A dirge (Latin: dirige, nenia [1]) is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as may be appropriate for performance at a funeral. Often taking the form of a brief hymn, dirges are typically shorter and less meditative than elegies. [2] Dirges are often slow and bear the character of funeral marches.
Drummers at the funeral of jazz musician Danny Barker in 1994. They include Louis Cottrell, (great-grandson of New Orleans' innovative drumming pioneer, Louis Cottrell, Sr. and grandson of New Orleans clarinetist Louis Cottrell, Jr.) of the Young Tuxedo Brass Band, far right; Louis "Bicycle Lewie" Lederman of the Down & Dirty Brass band, second from right.
Ciftelia is an original unique instrument in Kosovo. This is a two-stringed instrument in which one string is used for the drone and one for the melody. It is a wooden instrument with a small head and a long tail. It is used in a style of dance and pastoral songs, mostly on Kosovo and it is known as a Gheg Instrument. Together with Sharkia it ...
A high pitch drill sound squeals at the start of “Dirge,” and in the song’s breakdown, while you hear someone singing “blessed be the name of the lord” sampled from Wim Wender’s 1987 ...
It’s a post-rock dirge of sorts, the singer’s haunting lines ushering in crashes of ambient guitar to break up the verses. ... Neither the human body nor the musical instrument is a self ...
Charles-Valentin Alkan's Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot (1858), a surreal composition for wind instruments and choir is another classic of the genre: it mocks the funeral marches of Rossini, Gossec and Beethoven.The joking Italian title of Mozart's Kleiner Trauermarsch has led to suspicions of a self-parody of his Concerto for Piano and ...
The "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is a traditional English folk song and dirge listed as number 8194 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The song tells of the soul 's travel, and the hazards it faces, on its way from earth to purgatory , reminding the mourners to practise charity during lifetime.
Linus may have been the personification of a dirge or lamentation , as there was a classical Greek song genre known as linos, [15] a form of dirge, which was sometimes seen as a lament for him. This would account for his being the son of Apollo and a Muse, and by which fact, Linus was also considered the inventor of melody and rhythm or of ...