A slow march to be played for funeral processions.
March, usually in a minor key.
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Examples for "dead march "
Examples for "dead march "
1 Celia looked through the lattice-work and whistled a dead march .
2 But there was no quickening step as the house was neared-itwas a dead march .
3 The triumphal procession had become almost a dead march .
4 A captain's guard marched before the coffin, their firelocks reversed, and the drums beating the dead march .
5 After marching in column through intervening woods, with bands playing the dead march , we entered an extensive field.
1 We fell in line and the funeral march to Brigade Headquarters started.
2 It begins with a grand, terrifying funeral march , and a storm-tossed scherzo.
3 The orchestra was playing a funeral march as Cavaradossi refused a blindfold.
4 Any moment now I'll hear my funeral march - then everything will be complete.
5 You are giving us voluntaries from 'Orpheus,' instead of the funeral march .
6 A funeral march would be gayer than that music, I should think!
7 The funeral march for Siegfried is the funeral music for all the dead.
8 The music plays the Hagen motives, with suggestions of the Siegfried funeral march .
9 It was Monday and Mrs. Rabinowitz was making them rehearse Mahler's funeral march .
10 It was a New Orleans jazz band, playing a funeral march .
11 Poor Jack left in despair, and this time he whistled a funeral march .
12 A funeral march is heard off, growing louder sand then fainter.
13 That would have been a funeral march for Sir George's handful of men.
14 It was a funeral march ; that is what it was.
15 But life on those terms would be the dreariest funeral march of the marionettes.
16 They finished tea to the strains of a funeral march .
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