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dirge [dɜːdʒ] N

dirge

dirge

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Rows of candles arranged along the floor burn as a bagpiper plays a dirge. en.wikipedia.org

As he was charged with composing inscriptions and dirges for the governor, he gained experience in writing official documents. en.wikipedia.org

It is not a genre, but several genres originate as occasional poetry, including epithalamia (wedding songs), dirges or funerary poems, paeans, and victory odes. en.wikipedia.org

Throughout the march, the band plays very somber dirges. en.wikipedia.org

While accompanying the coffin to the cemetery, a band plays the tune as a dirge. en.wikipedia.org

Additional traditional hymns and dirges are chanted by the numerous people who make up each procession. en.wikipedia.org

The first, cyprs (cypress), is a mournful dirge adagio for organ solo, recalling a mournful cypress. en.wikipedia.org

It is a dirge or lament that is even slower than the previous movement. en.wikipedia.org

They referred to their musical style as danceable dirge. en.wikipedia.org

Funeral dirges are played and interspersed with irreverent passages of joy and happiness. en.wikipedia.org

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