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The march from Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, by Henry Purcell. The funeral march for Lìu in the opera Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini. The second movement of Ferdinand Ries's Symphony No. 1: Marche funebre. The fifth movement of Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15: Funeral march: Adagio molto.
The occasion of this march's composition is unknown, but it was arranged upon the death of President Ulysses S. Grant in 1885, and was also used in Sousa's own funeral procession. The style is a funeral march, a dirge with a much slower tempo. The introduction and first two strains are repeated da capo.
Two of the funeral sentences, "Man that is born of a woman" Z. 27 and "In the midst of life we are in death" Z. 17, survive in autograph score. The Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary comprises the March and Canzona Z. 780 [1] and the funeral sentence "Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts" Z. 58C.
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.
– 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 ...
Songs of Grace and Glory (1892) The Salute of the Nations (1893) Rose, Thistle and Shamrock (1901) In the Realm of the Dance (1902) A Day at Great Lakes (1915) On the 5:15 (1916) In Pulpit and Pew (1917) A Study in Rhythms (1920) An Old-Fashioned Girl (1922) Music of the Minute (1922) The Merry-Merry Chorus (1923) On With The Dance (1923)
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Lt Col Jones said the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, the Queen’s first prime minister, had also featured music by those composers, adding: “And those are the marches that are going to be ...