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About Funeral march
Funeral march is a music genre. It is usually classed as a form of march and funeral music.
From Wikipedia
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. Some such marches are often considered appropriate for use during funerals and other sombre occasions, the best-known example being the third movement of Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2. Handel uses the name dead march, also used for marches played by a military band at military funerals.
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Parent genres (↑) and subgenres (↓) of Funeral march.
- ↑ march
- ↑ funeral music
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What is Funeral march?
Funeral march is a music genre. It is usually classed as a form of march and funeral music.
Sources & credits
- Wikidata Q1677377 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Funeral march – CC BY-SA 4.0
- MusicBrainz genre – CC0
- Siegfrieds funeral march, excerpt by Morn – CC0 1.0
- Funeral March for Brass (ISRC USUAN1100797) by Kevin MacLeod – CC BY 3.0
- PDP-CH - San Francisco Symphony - Alfred Hertz - Funeral March of a Marionette - Charles… – Public domain