funeral march
Noun
Meaning
a slow march to be played for funeral processions
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Examples
Funeral March for the Last Rites of a Deaf Man.
His body is carried away in a solemn funeral procession (Siegfried's funeral march) that forms the interlude as the scene is changed and recapitulates many of the themes associated with Siegfried and the Wälsungs.
Nordraak died in 1866, and Grieg composed a funeral march in his honor.
The prop allowed him to deliver the line "I could kill you with this and play your funeral march at the same time", with—according to biographer Colin Escott—"zero conviction".