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Dead march

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  1. 1
    A mournful, deliberately-paced musical work suitable for a funeral or remembrance ceremony.

    "I see a sad procession, And I hear the sound of coming full-key'd bugles, All the channels of the city streets they're flooding, As with voices and with tears. . . . Now nearer blow the bugles, And the drums strike more convulsive, And the daylight o'er the pavement quite has faded, And the strong dead-march enwraps me."

  2. 2
    a slow march to be played for funeral processions wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of several particular notable musical works of this kind, such as the Marche funèbre by Frédéric Chopin or the funeral anthem in George Frideric Handel's Saul. capitalized

    "[W]hat divine ravishments may we not anticipate from this venerable, embrowned old organ, which might almost have played the Dead March in Saul, when King Saul himself was buried."

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