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A funeral march (marche funèbre in French, marcia funebre in Italian, Trauermarsch in German, marsz żałobny in Polish), as a musical genre, is a march, usually in a minor key, in a slow "simple duple" metre, imitating the solemn pace of a funeral procession.
English: March included in "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary" (1695) by Henry Purcell. Composed for 4 slide trumpets; adapted for 3 trumpets and 1 valve trombone and later 3 euphoniums and 1 tuba, accompanied by a tupan and a subbass drum.
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Funeral March of a Marionette (French: Marche funèbre d'une marionnette) is a short piece by Charles Gounod. It was originally written for solo piano in 1872 and orchestrated in 1879. It is perhaps best known as the theme music for the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents .
– Beethoven’s Funeral March No 1. 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 ...
Sousa composed this funeral march and dedicated it to President James A. Garfield, upon his death. The dirge was played by the Marine Band as the president's body was received at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., as well at Garfield's funeral in Cleveland, Ohio. It would be repeated at Sousa's own funeral half a century later.
English: Excerpt from Siegfried's Funeral March from Wagner's Götterdämmerung.Taken from Siegfrieds funeral march and finale.ogg; clip starts at about 1:35.. This Wagner motif was featured prominently in the 1981 film Excalibur and was also used by Magnetic Fields in their Commodore Amiga games Super Cars I and II.
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