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Written in support of U.S. military service persons and their families, Toby Keith released "American Soldier" in 2004 and the song spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs ...
Siegfried's Funeral March; Il Silenzio (song) Slonimsky's Earbox; Sonata for Violin and Cello (Ravel) Song for Athene; String Quartet No. 4 (Shostakovich) String Quartet No. 7 (Shostakovich) Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Symphony No. 2 (Milhaud)
"Song for Athene", which has a performance time of about seven minutes, is an elegy consisting of the Hebrew word alleluia ("let us praise the Lord") sung monophonically six times as an introduction to texts excerpted and modified from the funeral service of the Eastern Orthodox Church and from Shakespeare's Hamlet (probably 1599–1601). [4]
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.
The stately, mournful piece was played at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April 2021, as well as the procession to the lying in state of the Queen Mother and the funeral of King Edward VII.
The funeral of Queen Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694) in Westminster Abbey was not until 5 March 1695. Purcell composed a setting of the sixth of the seven sentences of the Anglican Burial Service ("Thou Knowest Lord", Z. 58C) for the occasion, together with the March and Canzona, Z. 780. [1]
The Funeral March for the Final Scene of Hamlet by Hector Berlioz. Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale by Hector Berlioz (Op. 15, 1840), a symphony for military band in three movements. The eighth variation from Benjamin Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10: Variation 8: Funeral March.
Parry died on 7 October 1918 and one of the pieces from Songs of Farewell, "There is an old belief", was sung at the composer's funeral in St Paul's Cathedral. [6] The first performance of the complete set of six songs was at a memorial service to Parry held in the chapel of Exeter College, Oxford on 23 February 1919, four months after his ...