| 单词 | dirge |
| 例句 | We finished off Susanna by singing “Amazing Grace” at the speed of a dirge. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They were sheepish, and the Salinas Band marched ahead of them, playing the “Stars and Stripes Forever,” and the families walking along beside them were crying, and the music sounded like a dirge. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z From somewhere in the distance came a mournful sound of brass instruments, a death dirge echoing over the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I dropped my eyes to the floor and heard the slow music of the dirge, louder for a moment, then soft again. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Captain Nemo’s submarine vibrating with his woeful dirge as it floated through the black. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Now that the emperors were wailing at the ship, it sounded to everyone’s ears like a dirge. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z After sterile weeks he came to an unknown city where all the bells were tolling a dirge. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Bullfrogs croaked in a feverish dirge, while larger game, alarmed by my trespass, thrashed through the underbrush, making me feel as though I was being pursued on all sides. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The slow, endless clanging filled their room, as mournful as a dirge. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Negroes, it seems, preferred more contemporary music and turned up their transistor radios loudly and defiantly whenever Myma began one of her lugubrious dirges. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We heard the sounds of the traditional dirge grow louder, and so did the screams and wails coming from a memorial ceremony in a private room. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The story droned on, speeded up for the attack, grew sad over the wounds, struck a dirge at the burials on the great plains. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He played a joyful counterpoint to her plaintive dirge—his notes light and hopeful to drive back the desolation of the future. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But the unquarreled evening hung like the first note of a dirge in sullenly expectant air. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She pecked at Pan’s knee and hummed something that sounded like a funeral dirge. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z This noble war in the sky elevated my spirits; I clasped my hands, and exclaimed aloud, “William, dear angel! this is thy funeral, this thy dirge!” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no dirge, no incense, no requiem, although hymns were sung in the small church. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Now the captain plays a mournful, chilling dirge on his organ as the Nautilus sleeps in the wastelands of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Bernabe asked, his voice trudging down the fifteen miles of telephone wire like a funeral dirge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On January third the sun came out—and so did Shadrack with his rope, his bell and his childish dirge. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Lillian Woodward played the hymn like a dirge, and there is nothing like playing a march like a dirge to irritate a congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I heard Ira begin to sing a low dirge; she was rocking gently back and forth, and she was crying. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirty-two belfries tolled a dirge at six in the afternoon. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z At first she played “Yori Yori” and “Obi Mu O” endlessly and then she stopped, because the songs brought to her memories a finality, as though they were dirges. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the morning the brass band played a mournful dirge. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice enweaved itself through the somber vapors left by the dirge. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a requiem, a dirge, for a lifeless movie. REVIEW: Maleficent: Sympathy for the Rebel 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Credits on Free albums tend to be sketchy, but that may be Fraser, who also played keyboards, clinching the dirge with sorrowful sheets of sound from a mellotron. Andy Fraser: A bassist whose rumbling sound allowed Free to soar 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z But in that exhausted frenzy the young man finally started to write — and ended up with the landmark modernist poem “Easter in New York,” a citywide dirge of darkly beautiful alexandrines. Blaise Cendrars at the Morgan: A Modern Match of Poetry and Painting 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z As much as it is a marital dirge, “Siracusa” is also a meditation on writing – specifically, on the difficulties of embodying life in fiction. An Italian vacation is not what two couples hoped in Delia Ephron's 'Siracusa' 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The Nashville-based songwriter Amanda Shires rewrote “Silent Night” as a despondent, minor-key dirge — “Nothing’s calm/nothing’s been right” — on her album “For Christmas,” which includes nine other songs of her own. 13 Albums That Revisit (and Redefine!) Holiday Classics 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Like the “crashed” truck, the paintings — the décor of an industrial fun house, complete with a soundtrack of autotuned laughter and overdriven guitar dirge — depend on the drama around them. Anne Imhof, Dancing in the Ruins 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Her austere piano ballad, with Mr. West’s voice computer-tuned into a melody, gives way to a dirge driven by repeated hornlike notes. Music Review: ‘Yeezus,’ Kanye West’s Raw and Jolting New Album 2013-06-16T18:25:47Z There’s no punk sarcasm for now; as the music builds from measured dirge to pummeling anthem, the lyrics both recognize and rail against the ravages of time, even on the verge of a new tour. My Chemical Romance’s Prog-Emo Surprise, and 12 More New Songs 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z A singular work of lasting beauty, the song plays like a kind of funeral dirge, with McCartney singing, "Dear friend, what's the time? / Is this really the borderline?" Wings debut "Wild Life" turns 50 with powerful vinyl reissue 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z After a brief acoustic interlude of Hayes on piano, guitar and mouth organ, the band threaten to linger in the land of swampy dirge overkill for just a little too long. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – review 2013-03-26T18:27:54Z The instruments smudged and blurred into each other until the whole black-white-gray dirge burst into brilliant flame with the Allegro. Review: George Shangrow memorial added to Seattle chamber fest's Eastside opener 2010-08-05T20:34:00Z The following year, in Little Big Man, he directed a comic dirge itemizing the white man's extermination of native Americans. Appreciation: Arthur Penn, the Miracle Worker of 'Bonnie and Clyde' 2010-09-30T18:15:00Z A bass drum resounds, signaling the start of a dirge that includes a duet of simultaneous yet lonely melodies from the clarinet and trombone. A Requiem, Derailed by the Pandemic, Arrives When It’s Needed Most 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z The opening of “Sweeter End” was especially powerful, as it matched the funereal thump of “St. James Infirmary” with sharp, almost brutal snaps of movement, pushing the dirge to ecstatic heights. The Short List: Favorite performances from Bumbershoots past 2013-08-24T15:12:09Z “Waiting Game,” a dirge about a “cursed” romance with another musician, was produced by Sohn, who’s a songwriter and singer himself. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z But others allergic to the 1970s might respond with an embarrassed shrug and mention that rotten dirge I Just Called to Say I Love You. Old music: Stevie Wonder – Visions 2013-03-14T07:00:00Z In a matter of months, Loeb has become a one-man alternative to the dirge of terrestrial news. Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us — and he doesn’t care what his colleagues think 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z A heavy sense of obligation runs through Murphy’s direction — through every word, every inflection, every choice, every time a new-wave dance hit becomes an ironic dirge. ‘The Normal Heart’: Then and now, a relevant outrage The stately fiddle-accented dirge becomes a backdrop for stories of bravery, treachery, desperation, until all disappear beneath the black, icy ocean. Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest' 2012-09-07T16:48:00Z Their most memorable song is a haunting dirge performed at the funeral pyre of a fallen comrade. Movie Review: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ With Kristen Stewart 2012-05-31T17:47:53Z But the music deconstructs back into dark dirge mode when Dylan turns to a commentary on what he himself is doing, making the song almost meta-musical. "Murder Most Foul": Unpacking Bob Dylan's new epic, from Dallas 1963 to the pandemic of 2020 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z The closest thing to the sound of live music is “Codex,” a piano dirge hinting at suicidal thoughts, with an abyss of reverberations under its instruments. Critic?s Notebook: Radiohead Surprises With Early Release 2011-02-18T23:25:50Z King composed a minor-key dirge for this sad, sick testimony, and Spector arranged the song with sepulchral strings, as if it were being sung from the grave of an abused woman. Remembering Gerry Goffin, the '60s Poet of Teen Heartbreak 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Here in the Armory, these mourners, their uniqueness having allowed them to circumvent post-9/11 strictures, prepared for a dirge with no object. Taryn Simon’s Varieties of Mourning 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Although he sang “Casualty of You” in a gold lamé robe and a miterlike headpiece, it was a bitter piano dirge. Music Review: Anxiety Wrapped in Gleaming Pop and Lam? 2010-09-19T22:31:00Z In a 28-minute long dirge, Mr. Cooper takes the opening bars of a gorgeous 18th-century lamentation full of aching harmonic suspensions and renders it in extreme slow motion so that its pulse becomes undetectable. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The anthem made Jimi famous worldwide, veering into a vortex out of which emerged "Purple Haze", a glorious, lyrical dirge – for something, for everything; an endpiece not only to Woodstock but to so many dreams. The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z Mr. James prefaced the song with some thoughts about sexism, and then the band started a ghostly dirge. José James Celebrates Billie Holiday at the Blue Note 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z It sounds like an Oasis dirge only with airier vocals. New band of the day ? No 810: Sunbirds 2010-06-17T15:24:00Z Melodically, the track is a dirge, but until the rhythm drops away at the end, the percussion is there to party no matter how grim the surroundings. Beck and Phoenix’s Bouncy Synth-Pop Team-up, and 8 More New Songs 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z If a case were to be made for reassessment of this 1972 barroom dirge set on the Southern California coast, it won’t be in this apathetic staging. | 'Small Craft Warnings': Barroom Dirges of the Working Class 2011-02-22T22:02:02Z It’s a dirge about inevitable, existential loneliness, set to slow, bare-bones arpeggios and funereal drum thuds, and Mercury’s voice expands it to arena scale as he moves between confidential croon and balcony-rattling rasp. Queen’s Unearthed Lament, and 6 More New Songs 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s not just that the frenetic hoofing was ridiculous—it was, the plaid-capped go-go girls, the dancers accompanying even Josh’s dirge version of “Forever Young”—but for the most part, it overwhelmed the singing performances. The X Factor Live: It?s Not Idol. And That?s Not a Compliment 2011-10-26T14:23:13Z In “Whispers,” which begins with Reznor’s bare-bones piano and turns into a mechanized dirge, they admit, “I sabotage the things I love the most.” Backed by Nine Inch Nails, Halsey Connects Past and Future 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Maybe this is their Blue Period, in which they sing dirges in the dark. Being Flynn: Robert De Niro Has Not Given Up After All 2012-03-01T17:31:17Z The sound in the second movement was hauntingly muted, like a dirge heard through the fog, and the ferocious finale almost uncomfortably vivid. Pacifica Quartet Presents Shulamit Ran Premiere and Classics 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z But these autumnal reflections — “Leaves are fallin’, winter’s on my mind,” goes the opening line in “Here to Stay,” a blues dirge — point toward a familiar species of morbid resilience. New Albums by Honeyblood, John Hiatt and the Fred Hersch Trio 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Once a year every human must recommit to the familial cult by lighting a cake on fire while clan members chant a mournful dirge. Style Invitational Week 1454: Punku 3 — haiku with a pun, duh 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The ponderous music that blares when Arnold’s phone rings is amusing, and then it’s abruptly not, having transformed, call after call, into a dirge, a requiem, a discordant family bleat. ‘Gloria Bell’ Review: Love Is in the Air for a Transcendent Julianne Moore 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z A Perfect Circle is somber, pondering loss, self-destruction and devastation; its repertory centers on dirges that often turn explosive. Music Review: A Desolate Croon That Seethes and Hints at a Band?s Next Phase 2011-07-15T22:44:06Z Then a solo bassoon silences the warmth: A funeral dirge is passing through. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Martin's Funeral is part dirge, part march, part funk jam, running the gamut of reverence, burning anger, then release and acceptance over the course of an astonishing 15 minutes. Readers recommend: songs about funerals – results 2013-06-20T11:04:00Z Her rendition of Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” was an anguished dirge to her late friend. Feminism’s A-List Attends Kate Millett’s Memorial in New York 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z The opening track, “I Am All That I Need/Arroyo Seco/Thumbprint Scar,” careens from dreary, self-doubting dirge to bright, breathless acoustic rocker and back multiple times before strings sweep in like a soothing balm. How the Fleet Foxes Frontman Got Out to Get Back In 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Entertainment Weekly's Kyle Anderson, however, said the show "trots out a series of dirges that lack the dynamism necessary to keep audiences fully engaged". Sting musical opens on Broadway 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Schapker, from “Altered Carbon,” echoed these sentiments, saying that these shows did not need to be turned into sentimental fantasies or dismal dirges either. They Create Nightmare Worlds for TV. Now They’re Living in One. 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Over six sections – a prologue, a life-story, a dream-quest, a dirge, a masque and an epilogue – they meditate on their lives, their hopes, their losses, and on the human condition. On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Its repertoire included the group’s new songs, an a cappella medieval dirge, a girl-group remake, Charles Mingus pieces, blues tunes and traditional ballads. John Renbourn, Eclectic Guitarist Who Founded the Pentangle, Dies at 70 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Smith’s version is a funeral dirge, slow and inconsolably sad. Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran — young Brits in search of love and slightly better songs But in that moment, drinking from a razor-thin-lipped glass as minuscule bubbles carried whisky flavors and Waits sang his raspy yet ethereal dirges, perfection seemed tangible. In the watering holes of Tokyo, the highball reigns supreme 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Equally heroic in quality, the Requiem is no droopy dirge; it should provide an evening of considerable musical drama. Seattle Symphony and tenor Ian Bostridge in top form for Berlioz concert 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z The chorus of the opening song, Web in Front, rubs: "All I ever wanted was to be your spine"; a dirge titled Toast ends with Bachmann wailing: "There's something wrong with my toast!" Archers of Loaf v Suede: the hype bands of 1993 2011-08-04T21:30:02Z Its closing track is a new version of “Red Ford Radio,” a singsongy dirge that first appeared on “Go Grey” 10 years ago. Pop Is Obsessed With What’s Next. So U.S. Girls Revisited Her Past. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z “Fleabag,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s screwball dirge on sex and death, won four awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series. The Joyous, Fragmented, and Slightly Anxious 2019 Emmy Awards 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z I don’t mean to go on about the sourness of “West by West,” but this book is, front to back, a purge and a dirge. Books of The Times: ?West by West? by Jerry West and Jonathan Coleman ? Review 2011-11-01T22:56:20Z Beside the work, Goldsmith contributes the lyrics of the Cure’s “How Beautiful You Are,” a Baudelaire-based dirge about wandering, lovesick, through Parisian streets. Walter Benjamin’s Unfinished Magnum Opus, Revisited Through Contemporary Art 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z In fact it's a repetitive dirge, that's so knowing in its dirgey repetitiveness that it sneakily gets a choir in to make it seem less repetitive. This week's new singles 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z Sure, the LP shares DNA with 1992’s “Automatic For The People” — see the undulating folk of “New Test Leper” and tropical dirge “Zither” — and the glinting, slash-and-burn electric guitars permeating “Monster.” A road album without borders: R.E.M.’s “New Adventures in Hi-Fi” turns 20 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Dead Can Dance’s performance was a string of dirges and incantations. Music Review: Dead Can Dance at Beacon Theater 2012-08-30T21:48:08Z Many of the works in "Poetry of the Taliban" center on the movement's campaign to expel foreign forces from their territory, with angry battle anthems or mournful dirges devoted to civilian casualties. UK publisher to release Taliban poetry anthology 2012-05-05T19:46:04Z Eventually, a plunked-out piano theme leads into an angry dirge that breaks into an unabashed jazz romp, before the piece ends in a sweeping, cinematic epilogue. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z She shares “Fall in Line” with another former child star, Demi Lovato; it’s a defiant dirge addressed directly to “little girls” and it insists, “You do not owe them your body and your soul.” Christina Aguilera Exults in Her Voice on ‘Liberation’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Forest Swords played trudging, Minimalistic dirges, supplementing their electronics with live guitar and bass that added a reggae undertow. An Apt Basement Celebration of Tri Angle Records 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z This might happen best in “Slow,” which starts with tolling piano chords, like a dirge, until Mr. Richardson unspools his complex, circular melody in tandem with Mr. Metheny and Mr. Waits. Review: Logan Richardson’s ‘Shift’ Serves as a Challenge 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z They're more likely to include an unassuming little ditty about Norma Jean, or a repetitive dirge about a craggy bit of Scotland. TV highlights 28/12/2012 2012-12-21T10:08:17Z In some establishments, mournful dirges played while coffins were carried through the crowds of drinkers; in others, the walls were hung with black crepe. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z Its placid and familial atmosphere is heightened by a cameo: Brad and Phil’s father plays accordion on the dirge “Kill the Horns.” Pop & Rock Listings for May 2-8 2014-05-01T21:55:59Z The album’s major misstep is “Did I Ever Love You,” about another remembered liaison; it alternates Mr. Cohen’s rawest vocal dirge with jarringly bouncy country from the backup singers. Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z “Head in the oven didn’t sound so crazy,” Allison sings, alone amid echoes; then a lurching dirge rises around her like a haunted castle. Soccer Mommy Summons a ‘Tidal Wave’ of Feelings 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z "That would help buoy up this dirge, this tragic journey. Otherwise, who would want to watch that?" At 74, Al Pacino is still chasing that next great role 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z He opened last year’s competition by saying, “There’s hip-hop, there’s opera, there’s pop, there’s dirge.” Netflix’s ‘Eurovision Song Contest’: Here’s What You May Have Missed 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z The music is slow, almost appropriately like a dirge, and when a delicate touch of the piano bleeds into tearful string accompaniment, a space emerges for the singer's voice. "Murder Most Foul": Unpacking Bob Dylan's new epic, from Dallas 1963 to the pandemic of 2020 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Producer T Bone Burnett had initially asked Mr. Stanley to perform “O Death,” a 19th-century dirge about a man’s plea with death, in the primitive style of Appalachian banjoist Dock Boggs. Ralph Stanley, bluegrass master, dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Sally Timms of the Mekons opened “Queen of the Silver Dollar” as a spooky, melancholy dirge, with shimmering, abstract glissandos from the band, before settling it back into country. Music Review: Celebrating a Twisted, Elegant Versifier 2011-08-07T21:46:32Z Many of the band's biggest hits have been turned into such dirges they make laughing Leonard Cohen's work sound like the Teletubbies. Critics pan Spice musical 2012-12-12T14:11:41Z Handclaps are all that accompany Jacob Banks’s deep, husky baritone as “Be Good to Me” begins, making it sound as if it could be an old traditional dirge. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey’s Smoldering Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s a long, craggy album that drags at the end with two slow-moving dirges. Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest' 2012-09-07T16:48:00Z Her show at the Izod Center here on Wednesday night opened with a bombastic orchestral dirge and a video presenting her as a Marie Antoinette figure in a Gothic palace, receiving a crown. Music Review: Beyoncé’s ‘Mrs. Carter Show’ at Izod Center 2013-08-01T16:19:36Z Pink Floyd, and Mr. Gilmour on his own, made themselves masters of slow tempos: dirges, processionals and ballads that might start quietly but took on a majestic richness. Review: David Gilmour Lays Claim to Pink Floyd Memories 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Sprouting from the dark soil is an animatronic daisy, which moves searchingly to music that begins as a dirge and swells to something anticipatory. What Would Ben Franklin Say? Artists Weigh the Dream of Democracy 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z By contrast, the trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith came to his closing remarks out of a strangely inert dirge with the guitarist Kaki King, piercing the sudden quiet with terse phrases full of coiled tension. Pairings Fulfill ‘A Night of Improvised Round Robin Duets’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z There was the high-impact moodiness of Flying Lotus, whose set was a lurching stop-start collection of galloping percussion, subterranean bass heaves, blippy electronics and ominous dirges, complete with choir and church bells. The Hudson Project, Cut Short by a (Real) Tempest 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The prisoners’ choral dirge is heated by squeals of brass, smoking underneath; along with Betty’s enigmatically tender aria, this is the most intriguing music of the opera. Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z The traditional Catalan “Song of the Birds” is a joyous, whimsical Christmas carol, but the solo gamba version here sounded like a dirge. Ensemble Galilei at National Gallery closes out holiday offerings 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z But in subtler ways he folded unconventional elements of the indigenous songs, dances and dirges into his own mature style. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z It comes to a head in the epilogue, with a thunderous final chord, a long held drone that begins as a plaintive dirge for the mother but magnifies into the family's death-shudder. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z From such shards Mr. Dylan constructs his own archetypal realms: “In Scarlet Town, you fight your father’s foes/Up on the hill, a chilly wind blows,” he sings, over a rustic dirge. New Music: BOB DYLAN, review 2012-09-10T16:28:05Z Broom has a pleasant voice, but, under the sway of sorrow, she intones the work like a dirge. Perspective | Diane Keaton and Ronan Farrow show the challenges of narrating your own audiobook 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Their final performance was an out-of-tune dirge with only two of the band's original lineup remaining. Is live music being ruined by endless reunions? 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z Mr. Jackman’s charm can lighten the glummest dirge, but for comic-book agnostics the real appeal is Logan’s reluctance to get involved, an ambivalence that can feel familiar to viewers exhausted by the same fight. Review: In ‘Logan,’ a Comic-Book Stalwart Turns Noirish Western 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Solely led now by his longtime collaborator Carla Bley, the band has a new album, “Time Life,” named after a tender dirge she wrote in his memory. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z He sings it as an a cappella dirge, with a looping, multitracked moan. A Cri de Coeur From Jazz Musicians in a Black Lives Matter Age 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z In apparently unrelated news, indie rockers LCD Soundsystem released their own Christmas dirge, titled “Christmas Will Break Your Heart.” Miley Cyrus Released a New, Sad Christmas Song 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z “Straight for the Knife” and “Fair Game” are dirges with simulated string sections and lyrics like “I’m hungry for your bad loving,” and “Watch me squirm baby, but you’re just what I need.” Notable Releases From Sia and Mary Sarah 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z “I didn’t want this to be a dirge, a heavy-osity movie,” he told Vanity Fair. What we learned from Vanity Fair's Star Wars: The Last Jedi issue 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Now again they are choosing A fall filled with funeral dirges. Style Invitational Week 1452: As the word turns 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The melodies are notably stronger, though, especially in the stirring paranoia-anthem "Afraid of Everyone" and the pulsing dirge "Runaway." Indie rockers the National confront hype, stardom 2010-04-24T16:26:00Z He performed the funky “Machine” alongside projections of grinding cogs and sang the infidelity dirge “Broken Vow” before literally weeping trees. Music Review: Josh Groban at Madison Square Garden - Review 2011-11-15T22:42:12Z The work that made the greatest impression was the “Cart of Death”, an elaborate float pulled by black buffaloes, with skeletons popping out of their tombs whenever the grim procession stopped to chant a dirge. Monsters and merry mayhem 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Soon, in a patchy, arching voice, she began the first song, “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory,” turned by Mr. Crumb into a fractured dirge. Music Review: Afghanistan Veteran, Afghan Sounds 2011-06-19T22:09:51Z Nominated as writer and director for Born on the Fourth of July and JFK, Stone won Picture and Director for Platoon, an up-tempo dirge about his experiences as a young grunt in Vietnam. Which Is The Better Best Picture: Casablanca or Platoon? 2012-02-13T13:59:29Z We also wanted our song to be elegiac rather than a rave, but we didn’t want it to be a dirge. ‘Being Boring’: the Path to a Pop Elegy 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z And when you experienced Jason Molina’s languid lyricism, you might’ve felt deep kinship through his beautifully somber dirges — but you were too busy crying to think, “I should write songs like this!” Sitting in front of David Berman's old apartment in the middle of the night 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z I have had my first difference of opinion with him – over the dirge for the Novice. A meeting of minds on the high seas 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z “Found the through line for all humankind,” he declares over a strummed acoustic guitar at the beginning of the swaying dirge “Just Once in the World.” Bright Eyes’ Summertime Sadness 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z In this light, Storms’ singing becomes a funeral dirge. Allora & Calzadilla celebrate beauty, oddity of animal world 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Through forlorn analog-keyboard tones — sometimes sounding like a steel drum, or a Wurlitzer organ — Mr. Rende’s playing evoked children’s songs, hymns, chorales, baroque inventions, Robert Wyatt dirges, and pentatonic melodies from Japanese or Ethiopian music. Thomas Morgan’s New Trio Plays at Seeds 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z One plays a 1959 clip of Billie Holiday singing “Strange Fruit,” the chilling dirge about racial lynching that she made famous. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z We won't spoil it by saying any more, suffice to say that it's just one of many utterly exquisite dirges on Relayted, our album of the year so far. New band of the day ? No 757: Gayngs 2010-03-30T16:12:00Z Behind her, the band plays a stumbling dirge. The Playlist: Ed Sheeran Returns With a Foot in the Past and an Eye on the Future 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The blissfully high-energy, goofy, and danceable “Shake It Off” stalls as a brooding and meandering dirge. Haters Gonna Hate: Listening to Ryan Adams's "1989" 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Though some might dismiss their work as miserablist dirge, an Eeyored monologue backed by guitars, this would be to overlook the National's keen sense of lyrical humour, their delight in language and musical experimentation. The National: 'Our songs are about death – but in really fun ways' 2013-05-10T06:00:10Z Given its subject, it is remarkably uplifting — more eulogy than dirge. Three memoir picks for April 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z "Exactly!" he hisses through bleached teeth, excited that she seems to get him, and unaware that she's paraphrasing a lyric from a dirge. "The Morning Show" shifts to cover the pandemic, but still needs a shot in the arm to find its soul 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Happily, the risk has yielded the reward of a fresh, hip 90-minute riff that resonates as a starkly surreal dirge and a life-affirming blues. Oregon Shakespeare Fest, 2013: the Bard, and more 2013-07-24T22:08:57Z The problem, with the recorded and live versions, is that the arrangements are decidedly monotonous, reducing most of the songs to slow-paced dirges devoid of dynamism or urgency. Gabriel's orchestral show slowly builds momentum 2010-05-05T01:55:00Z The movie certainly conveys that sense: It plays like a dirge, not a celebration. Review: ‘Chavela’ Recalls the Life of the Ranchera Singer Chavela Vargas 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s a dirge for the intense cold, which Barclay sorely misses — why is the world now brown in January, rather than white? A Polite Drive for Secession in ‘Radio Free Vermont’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z En route to Louis Armstrong Park, McCusker, a cool cat in a straw fedora, explained the history of jazz, a musical mutt of blues, ragtime, dirges and marches. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z In her hands, the song becomes a dirge to loving something that doesn’t return the favor, and conveys her resolve to carry on, anyway. Just What Was on Trial in the Bill Cosby Case? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z An aching dirge sung by Nico on the Velvet Underground's first album, "All Tomorrow's Parties" epitomizes art rock's rejection of easy beauty. Rob Spillman on remaking himself amid the rubble of the past in 'All Tomorrow's Parties' 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z It doesn’t help that it’s followed by the album’s weakest moment: the bloated dirge of a piano ballad, “Within.” Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories is Sleek, Bold 2013-05-22T14:35:33Z “Hudson” is a WTF sheet-white dirge with a stumbling drumbeat that places Henry Hudson’s death in the Hudson Bay next to implied class issues between the Upper East and Upper West sides. Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires of the City Lives Up to Title 2013-05-14T09:45:57Z These are players who bring equal focus to a heavy dirge or an odd-metered slalom while never sounding academic. New Music: Marc Anthony Returns to Salsa; Chris Morrissey Crosses Lines 2013-07-22T21:41:19Z And he makes even an up number like the title song sound like an exquisitely sung dirge. | 'On a Clear Day You Can See Forever' : ?On a Clear Day You Can See Forever? at St. James - Review 2011-12-12T03:01:02Z Galás snarls and spits her way through “The Thrill is Gone,” stabbing at her keys, repeating the chorus over and over until it dissolves into a bruised, nagging dirge. Diamanda Galás, Lounge Singer in a World on Fire 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z So through that long, famous summer, we laboured through The Entertainer, each bodged and fumbled chord turning Scott Joplin's lilting, whimsical rag into a lolloping, peg-legged dirge, music from a speakeasy in hell. David Nicholls Every Good Boy 2011-07-22T22:01:00Z In its original form, the song played like a kind of funeral dirge, with McCartney singing, “Dear friend, what’s the time? / Is this really the borderline?” Wings was a better band than Paul McCartney or his critics think 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z “Mood Indigo” takes on the weight of a dirge, and “Rockin’ Chair,” usually a chummy reverie, lands as a chilling lamentation. Music: A Style Lasting Beyond a Lifetime 2010-08-27T22:50:00Z In “Lazarus,” a slowly gathering dirge with jolts from Mr. Bowie on electric guitar, the narrator is “in heaven” with “scars that can’t be seen,” looking back on a profligate life. Review: ‘Blackstar,’ David Bowie’s Emotive and Cryptic New Album 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Based on a series of novels by Edward St Aubyn, “Patrick Melrose” sounds like an insufferable dirge, following an upper-class addict as he reels from the death of his abusive father in the 1980s. Stream These 10 Emmy Nominees You May Not Have Seen 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The howling across Primrose Hill is a dirge. Ten of the best wolves in literature 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z “Song for My Father” became a dirge, with Evans playing slow piano cascades against a heavy funeral march on Whitfield’s crash cymbal. Pianist Orrin Evans and quartet shine at Bohemian Caverns But the music is a minor-key dirge, with an ominous electric lead guitar: a come-on delivered as if it were a warning. New Music: Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa?s Collaborative Album ? Review 2011-12-12T23:45:22Z While emotion is key to a great song, too much emotion can make a track sound like a techno dirge. 8 Life Lessons We Learned from Listening to the New Miley Cyrus Album 2013-10-01T19:51:27Z Even the oh-so-familiar theme music is rearranged from its quickstep tempo to a dirge. 'Dallas' funeral for J.R. honors Larry Hagman 2013-03-08T14:10:43Z There's also a wonderfully jaunty baroque number with a lot of coloratura, and a setting of an anonymous 15th-century dirge that's incredibly difficult to sing – and really quite scary. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z In this middling-quality dirge, the one moment of acerbic humor comes at a shooting party, when the host brings out framed portraits of former Soviet leaders, from Stalin to Gorbachev, for target practice. The Cannes Countdown: Six Contenders for Major Awards 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z “Tremors” has its share of dirges, and Sohn’s voice and lyrics stay forlorn and moody. New Music: Albums From Sohn, Oran Etkin and Pedro Luis Ferrer 2014-04-07T21:31:47Z The signature tune from “Threepenny Opera” is backed by a thrumming electric guitar, and an African woman sings the German lyrics starkly, almost mournfully, like a dirge. Alain Buffard’s troupe conjures powerful ‘Baron Samedi’ 2014-05-09T22:33:57Z “It’s a delicious immorality play with an excellent cast, but the tempo is slow and oddly ponderous — a romp slowed down to a dirge,” Alessandra Stanley wrote in The Times in January. Video: ‘French Masterworks: Russian Émigrés in Paris 1923-1928’ 2013-06-07T20:56:00Z A discussion that had begun with all the enthusiasm of a dirge was quickly moving in a more optimistic direction. Rich history, new anxieties inside MacArthur Park building where Berggruen Institute plans satellite 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z It is a tribute to possibility, and a dirge about disappointment. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z They're punk with a dash of grunge and their songs veer between drones and dirges. New band of the day (Baby Strange No 1,507) 2013-05-07T16:15:25Z There are dances and dirges, reimagined gospel standards and radiant organ jams. Listeners Found Beverly Glenn-Copeland. It Was Time. 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z “The Parade” is a modernist dirge of a book that still packs an emotional wallop, telling the story of mankind’s recurring and deadly war fever. An Early, Wordless Graphic Novel About Mankind’s Appetite for War 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z It’s a delicious immorality play with an excellent cast, but the tempo is slow and oddly ponderous — a romp slowed down to a dirge. | 'House of Cards': ‘House of Cards’ on Netflix Stars Kevin Spacey 2013-01-31T23:08:08Z At the start of the finale, the strings that interrupt a funeral dirge in the bassoon weren’t a slap in the face, but a swift tidal inundation. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Leads His New York Philharmonic 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Stanley’s ghostly rendition of the dirge “O Death” also appeared on the multiplatinum soundtrack to “O Brother.” Ralph Stanley, Whose Mountain Music Gave Rise to Bluegrass, Dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z And while the title sounds like some dark dirge that Margaret White might sing in “Carrie,” the musical that Kelly Younger’s play perhaps wants to be is “Ragtime.” | 'Banished Children of Eve': Hustlers and Lovers Endure the Civil War Era 2010-10-27T21:49:00Z But despite origins on the dance floor these songs read as devotional texts, or dirges. Playlist: Fort Lean, Kristen Kelly, Chingo Bling and Other New Music 2012-11-25T01:10:06Z The selections reached back to early Americana that includes a carping song about Congress and a take that reduced “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” to a mournful dirge. Review | The fabulous Taylor Mac gives D.C. a sample of his reinvented Americana 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z It’s a majestic dirge framed by sustained bass tones and electronic air horns and twinkles up above, as the verses envision destruction and alienation — “I don’t have anything for you” — with desolate calm. Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper’s Wholesome Team-Up, and 10 More New Songs 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z In a great dirge halfway through the album, she sings “We get down, we get high/we get born then we die/this is the human condition.” Playlist: New Music by Jason Nelson, Bob Brookmeyer and Wax Idols 2011-12-09T22:16:57Z The piece begins as a slow dirge, then accelerates into a kind of battle charge — the episode climaxes in a call to war for the latent rebels in Ferrix. Nicholas Britell finds the themes for outsized stories in this world and others 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Siouxsie’s return was a qualified triumph: There was a touch too much turgid dirge in the set list, and as her energy level flagged, the voice grew unwieldy. Unexpectedly, two nights of classic goth and post-punk at Cruel World festival 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The slow middle movement with its dirge is the center of the gravity. Sonically monumental: Esa-Pekka Salonen's organ concerto plays Disney Hall, where it belongs 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z On Thursday, Disney unveiled a clip of McCarthy’s breathy rendition of the deal-making dirge, which both manipulates and enables Bailey’s mermaid princess to transform into a human. Ursula's 'Poor Unfortunate Souls' terrified Melissa McCarthy. Then she got over herself 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z Recorded over a prison phone line, the national anthem sounds more like a dirge than celebration and is overlaid with Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Music to Trump’s ears: Whitewashing Jan. 6 riot with song 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z A familiar dirge had begun, voices rising up, struggling to find the words to match this horrendous act. Our psychological armor helps us cope with mass shootings, but numbs us to the destruction 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Orthodox Christian priests led a vigil in Brovary on Thursday, chanting dirges and burning incense as residents placed flowers and cuddly toys at a makeshift memorial near the nursery. 'Where are the kids?' Ukrainian mother recounts helicopter crash horror 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z There’s a kernel of truth there: Being cruel isn’t my MO, but negative reviews need a little spice here and there to avoid sounding like a funeral dirge. Perspective | A real-life food critic reviews on-screen food critics 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Boleros from the borderlands, civil rights gospel anthems and Dust Bowl dirges. Dolores Huerta's passion for music will be illuminated at CSUN tribute to civil rights activist 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z “Get up, cowards!” shrieked Way, after a thunderous performance of the band’s first new track in over 8 years, a dirge for an empire down titled “Foundations of Decay.” My Chemical Romance proves that emo, and arena rock, is alive and well at the Forum 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z A military band played a funeral dirge and a 19-gun volley was fired as his widow brought Abe’s ashes into the funeral hall. Abe’s militaristic funeral captures Japan’s tense mood 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z And the sun made an appearance as brass bands played mournful dirges. In Parks and on Post Boxes, Crowds Say Farewell to the Queen 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z As the cortege passed through Horse Guards Parade, the crowds began applauding, their joyful expressions of affection contrasting with the funeral dirges being played by the queen’s band. Queen’s Coffin Passes London Landmarks, in a Grand but Hushed Royal Display 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z With loud dirges pounding from loudspeakers, hundreds of men and boys march or form circles where they flagellate their backs with knives and chains. Another blast in Kabul targets Shiite community 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Once, he attended a Chinese funeral with an Italian band playing the dirge. Francis X. Clines, Lyrical Writer for The Times, Dies at 84 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Last week, she watched out the front window as his funeral was held in the cemetery across the road, the dirge of the military band mingling with the cries of the newborns. ‘It’s Like Parallel Realities’: Rituals of Life and Death Blur in a Vibrant Ukrainian City 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z A military brass band, its members decked out in camouflage gear, played dirges as the cortege moved forward under overcast skies. A funeral for Ukraine soldiers brings war to small town 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z As the journalist Barney Ronay once suggested, in some lights it is little more than a dirge, pleading with “an entity that doesn’t exist to preserve one that shouldn’t.” This Is England 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z This is exactly what Ali Benjamin has done with “The Smash-Up,” which takes Wharton’s bleak, turn-of-the-century dirge and updates it to the equally bleak Trump era. Review: Edith Wharton in the time of Trump: a new novel reinvents 'Ethan Frome' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Latasha’s story went on to inspire films and novels and furious dirges by Tupac and Ice Cube, and has filled countless newspaper columns. Latasha Harlins’ name sparked an L.A. movement. 30 years later, her first memorial is up 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z When the band began to play a funeral dirge, her voice crescendoed to a fever pitch with the swelling of the music as white-gloved soldiers picked up her son’s coffin. They lay competing claims to Nagorno-Karabakh. The war over it defines them both 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z It plays on loop in North America’s boreal forests, a classic as familiar as the chickadee’s trill and the mourning dove’s dirge. Canada’s Sparrows Are Singing a New Song. You’ll Hear It Soon. 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Instead of trumpet-like exhortations to American greatness and goodness on the country's birthday, Trump chose to deliver horribly off-key funereal dirges. Mourning in America: But after the Trump era's darkness, a rebirth is still possible 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s probably the best work of Ruffalo’s career — but I found myself bailing after just one episode because the show felt like a self-indulgent dirge. Emmy 2020 predictions, limited series: All 'Watchmen' all the time 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The haunting music of the dirges on the flutes signalled that he was one of our own and we were sending him off to our forefathers. How Ghana paid tribute to George Floyd 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z “I didn’t want to just write a dirge or an elegy, but I didn’t want to write a trivial bit of fluff either,” said Armitage. Florence Pugh and Simon Armitage record lockdown poem together 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Jazz funerals where mourners send off loved ones with a slow dirge and then an uplifting rendition of “When the Saints Go Marching In” are over. New Orleans musicians find way to soothe the city with music 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Backed up onstage by a 10-piece band, he belts out Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” not as a dirge but as an announcement of arrival in an exalted state. John Daly, Still Afloat - Golf Digest 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z In another time, Mr. Joseph would have walked with his bass drum behind the coffin at Mr. Lewis’s funeral procession, leading a brass band in the traditional dirge “Just a Closer Walk With Thee.” New Orleans Faces a Virus Nightmare, and Mardi Gras May Be Why 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The observations and sentiments — her parents and siblings struggle to reconcile their hopes with reality — become, in Heise’s flat narration, cumulatively devastating, like a spoken dirge. Review: ‘Heimat Is a Space in Time’ extracts wisdom from multiple generations of a German family 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Music and dance take on the character of dirge. A celebrated actress, choreographer, composer and painter stage T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets' 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The late-breaking nature of the state’s political culture lends the poll outsized influence, with the power to fuel a last minute surge in the state or be an early dirge for candidates struggling. Poll of Iowa caucusgoers abruptly shelved 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Local newspapers described it as a "funeral dirge", and a decision was made to write new music. The songwriter who introduced Vikings to Up Helly Aa 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Last year’s meetings in Las Vegas were like an extravagant party with an empty dance floor and a funeral dirge droning in the background. The Biggest Winner of the Winter Meetings? Scott Boras 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z From the first soothing lullabies babies hear to the funereal dirges that accompany the deceased, music is a fixture of the human experience. What Makes a Song? It’s the Same Recipe in Every Culture 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z So he won't be doing a Bob Dylan and reworking Cry For Help into a croaky folk dirge? We spent a morning in Rick Astley's home studio 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Chase’s casket was escorted from the church by a brass band playing a slow dirge. The Latest: A New Orleans-style goodbye for Leah Chase 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z After the final buzzer, the bass lines that define the East Bay funk sound of the mid-1970s played over the arena’s speakers, a dirge for a building that might have seen its last Warriors game. Oracle Arena might close with a whimper, but echoes of Warriors dynasty resonate 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z When the song was over, the president raised his voice, as if chanting a dirge: Obama v Doma: how gay Americans marched towards equality 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z She is determined that the June 12 memorial will be a celebration, rather than a mournful dirge. Broadway Bound’s Jimmy Nixon had ‘an incredible gift to connect and inspire’ young actors 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Despite a glowing performance, the 10-minute dirge barely hints at the wonders of “The Firebird” composed only two years later. Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen is back with his main man, Stravinsky 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z If Osaka were to win and hear the music of cheers instead of the ugly dirge of boos, it would be wonderful and long overdue. Australian Open: The Routing of a Teen-Age Phenom Highlights the Depth of the Women’s Tour 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Van Etten named one of her songs for the instrument, a hazy, anxious dirge about how disorienting it is to finally find the right person to love. Sharon Van Etten Finds Peace After Ache 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Starting as a dirge and ending as an ode to joy, “Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki” provides a privileged glimpse into the creative processes of one of the greatest animators who ever lived. Review: An inside look at an animation master's decision to come back from retirement in 'Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki' 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z “The Mortal Remains” brings all these tales together beautifully, by which I mean in a coda that is somber and hauntingly unsettled, like the last note of a dirge. Review | The Coen brothers made a western for Netflix. It’s brilliant, and unlike anything else they’ve done. 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Yet, all is not bleak — a dirge of forfeiture and death. Review: The artwork of Adrian Piper makes a stern proclamation: 'Everything will be taken away' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z But we seem to have reached the point where even the calls to arms are starting to sound like dirges. How to Write About a Vanishing World 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The grim song “Sixteen Tons,” popularized by Tennessee Ernie Ford, is a dirge to this life. Trump can’t revive coal, but he’s helping give us Coal Age air 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z But these adventures in Carrefour, getting pointlessly mugged to no one’s benefit, will supply an interesting background dirge. Here’s the main issue behind the Jamie Oliver jerk rice row – and it’s not cultural appropriation 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z “D’Jango Jane” is an ode to black power and pride that is also a dirge about the struggles that come with that heritage. How Janelle Monáe Found Her Voice 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z But first he bid farewell to the comforts of the 19th century with a dirge of extravagant emotion, heralded by the trumpet call. MTT takes Mahler to a new level in San Francisco Symphony tour 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The diaristic dirge starts with haunting feedback that relents before a gently fingerpicked acoustic guitar ushers in the opening line, “I’m singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me.” Phoebe Bridgers isn’t afraid to sing about scary things 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z The singer-songwriter sang the violin-and-piano dirge “Easy Target,” with the lyrics “In the street and the gutters/ The cotton fields in this land/ Here’s an easy target.” John Mellencamp takes a knee for Black Lives Matter 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Heed this warning, because that is how long this dirge of a money-grab sequel seems to last. Review | ‘Pitch Perfect 3’: Third installment in a cappella comedy franchise is off key. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Not only are they lost to us, their lives cut cruelly short, but they leave families, friends and neighbors to the all-too-familiar dirge of heartbreak and healing. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Few of the 238 seem concerned about the “Amazon will hurt your city!” dirge from some people here in Seattle. For many cities chasing HQ2, their futures are at stake 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z It peaks on the 10th day, Ashura, with booming dirges and mourning rituals that sometimes include self-flagellation by frenzied devotees. Kabul uneasily celebrates Shiite holiday of Ashura 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z After all, this piece is a waltz, not a dirge. null 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z At one point in the video, which has a mournful dirge as a soundtrack, he emphasizes the importance of historical memory in preventing tragedies like the one the camp witnessed. Louisiana Congressman Is Chastised After Filming Video at Auschwitz 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z After a brief interlude of darkness, the band returned for an encore begun with “Blackened,” the opening cut of “…And Justice For All,” with its nearly seven-minute dirge about nuclear war and its aftermath. CONCERT REVIEW: Metallica WorldWired tour keeps rock alive at Dallas stop 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Though ostensibly presented as a raucous family adventure — a “Vacation” for the PG crowd — “Wimpy Kid” is instead a dirge of unfunny scatological material, techno-anxiety and child endangerment masquerading as familial bonding. 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul' shares the horrors of family vacations minus the fun 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Though ostensibly presented as 90 minutes of raucous family adventure — a “Vacation” for the PG crowd — “Wimpy Kid” is instead a dirge of unfunny scatological material, techno-anxiety and child endangerment masquerading as familial bonding. ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul’ review: a bumpy, humor-free ride 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z She treated the Baker as a haunting dirge, lingering on the words “I’d like to be white / How happy I would be.” Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Timeless Jazz 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Only when I started humming the funeral dirge did they laugh and cease. Music in the Dentist’s Chair 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews reinforces his commitment to New Orleans on “Parking Lot Symphony,” a rich, energetic collection of funk, R&B;, and even dirges and pop. Review: Trombone Shorty album displays another growth spurt 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Every now and then, though, a glistening sweep of harp would cut through the dirge, sounding the possibility of glory in the wreckage. Alice Coltrane’s Devotional Music 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z “Lay Your Burden Down” switches gears to an ethereal, eulogistic dirge, and album closer “City of Love” is both spooky and experimental. Dashboard Confessional, Nina Massara among those releasing new music 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Despite the methodical plot and propaganda dirge, Miss Chastain’ performance rises above as the calculating but flawed, win-to-a-fault character willing to cross any ethics line while others pay for her risks. Blu-ray reviews: ‘Fences,’ ‘Elle’ and ‘Miss Sloane’ 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z House Republicans pulled their health-care bill shortly before a vote on Friday, and for once the media dirge is right about a GOP defeat. The ObamaCare Republicans 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The new singles from Arca and Perfume Genius couldn’t sound more different – one is a doom-dripping dirge, the other pastel-light – yet they each find a new exuberance that departs from their angstier early work. What to listen to now: Arca, Perfume Genius, Ronald Bruner Jr. and Laurence Juber 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Fixtures such as Negative Trend and the Sleepers wrote plodding, downcast dirges, while the Avengers’ throttling propulsion underlined vocalist Penelope Houston’s barbed liberation hymns. Bay of punks: remembering when punk rock invaded San Francisco 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The music of the marginalised - devotional music by a community of transgender people and dirges of Chennai's slums, for example - are being taken to "a concert space for the first time," says Krishna. How an Indian maestro is taking classical music to the masses - BBC News 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z “Process” deals with his mother’s death, but it’s more impressionistic meditation than raw dirge. Sampha and Migos Make Hits 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Few headliners sound alike: acts range from the harsh noise dirges of Chelsea Wolfe to the loungey electropop of the Bird and the Bee and the campy rap antagonism of Boyfriend. Girlschool showcases a pop community that's 'built on women’s excellence' 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Some songs, like “Chinese Envoy,” once a spare, prickling dirge and now a boisterous electro-pop song, are almost unrecognizable in their present-day iterations. John Cale’s Inventive Retrospection 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z It had the feel of a dirge, possibly because Fidel Castro had died three nights earlier. The Trials of a Boxing Romantic 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z “I can’t tell you how thankful I am,” Mr. Garfunkel said of still being able to hit the dirge’s high notes. Art Garfunkel open to reunion with Paul Simon but concentrating on solo tour 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The show closed with the band playing “God Bless America,” and it sounded like a funeral dirge. Colbert consoles and commiserates during live election special 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z The actual cost of the health insurance is still less than the Congressional Budget Office estimated back in 2009, but that won’t stop the critics from singing their funeral dirge. North Carolina editorial roundup 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z To help us understand what to make of cinema’s dirge, I turned to two of The Times’s most thoughtful Hollywood watchers: Brooks Barnes, the neighborhood beat reporter based in Los Angeles, and A.O. California Today: Is This the End for Movies? 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z But if she’d wanted to, she could have seen it as a dirge. ‘Looking for Betty MacDonald’ finds comedy and tragedy 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Armed with a 10-piece band — dressed in full black, as if this were a dirge rather than a concert — Harvey relied heavily on recent compositions rather than digging deep into her two-decade-plus career. PJ Harvey creates a bluesy soundtrack for tough times at the Shrine 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z She had no need to tie her remarks to the theme of “Make America Safe Again,” and once she had waved goodbye, the evening returned to its dirges and accusations. Step Right Up and Make America Safe Again 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Productions, is billed as five mini- performances forming a single dirge, for audience of no more than six at a time. Follow the Fringe: Festival is still in Trinidad, and also back downtown 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The petitioner states "it is quite simply the greatest song ever written" and a much more "jaunty singalong than the current dirge", God Save the Queen. Signing up: A Bowie bank holiday and other petitions - BBC News 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z At age 73, he was introduced to a new generation of fans in 2000 through his chilling a cappella dirge "O Death" from the hit Coen Brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" movie soundtrack. Bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z “Putting a slow dirge at the end made sense to me,” Todd says. Hard as Nails: getting hammered by the harshest band in America 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Many cultures have linked weddings with death, often in the form of a bridal dirge about saying farewell to the family. The Tragic Side of Weddings 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z "I'm disappointed that a dirge about genocide and delivering a pointed slap in Russia's face has won this year," he told the BBC. Eurovision Song Contest: Mixed feelings over Ukraine's triumph - BBC News 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z And, once again, the Washington political punditry begins another wildly premature funeral dirge for Mr. Trump’s campaign, the Republican Party’s hold on power in Washington. CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump presidency would revive neutered Congress, restore power to the people 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z There was more emphasis on his distinctive mournful falsetto vocals which were inspired by his greatest musical influence, his mother, a professional funeral dirge singer. What made Papa Wemba so influential? - BBC News 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z In a sexed-up version of the annual pageant, the burghers of Stratford had honoured their most famous son, and eternal cash machine, with a suitable mix of incongruity: mirth and dirge. Selfies, puns and codpieces galore at the Shakespeare street festival 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The Chief’s dirge would also be more credible if he more vigorously defended constitutional prerogatives that aren’t his own. Iran and the U.S. Constitution 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” begins and ends with a funeral, which is fitting for a movie that plays like one long dirge. ‘Batman v Superman’ is so desperate to be taken seriously, it forgets to have fun 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z One of the saddest people I’ve ever encountered was a small boy on a Bucharest metro train who came barefoot into our carriage and played what sounded like a funeral dirge on his violin. Romania: hellhole or country of romance and mystery? 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z But this was no dirge; this was a genuine investment in the work that yields points at a later stage. England’s Billy Vunipola thrashes his way through Ireland’s defence | Eddie Butler 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z Investors in media companies are singing a dirge, but it isn’t over the death of TV advertising. Media Stocks: TV Advertising’s Death Is Greatly Exaggerated 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s a creaking, oddly lurching dirge that smothers Rihanna’s vocal in an effect that makes it sound like she’s singing into a paper cup. Rihanna's Anti: one to scare casual fans – first listen review 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In the meantime, our heroes desperately need new life — not another dirge. ‘Batman v Superman’ is so desperate to be taken seriously, it forgets to have fun 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z “Miss You” is a tribute to former E Street cronie Clarence Clemons, while “Girl in Motion” is largely a driven, instrumental dirge. Bruce Springsteen guitarist Nils Lofgren releases solo live album ‘UK2015 Face the Music Live Tour’ 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z You Pretty Things became the dirge – the slow hymn portion of the march. Pretty things: Arcade Fire and fans throw Bowie a New Orleans send-off 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z At playoff time, the denizens’ throaty chant tends to sound more like a dirge than a cheer. Victorious Steelers Twist Knife Handed to Them by Bengals 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Trump’s campaign marched to the sound of a dirge—“The American Dream is dead,” he told crowds—and Rubio presented himself as a sunny alternative, a way out of Trump’s sulfurous moment. Marco Rubio’s Political Dexterity 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The album closes with the lovely dirge, “Running After You.” CD REVIEW: Cory Morrow fights ‘The Good Fight’ on country album 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z "Easily" sounds like a meandering amateur dirge, but its successor, "Pin," moves quickly and nervously: skipping around from buff percussion to stinging falsetto. On Art Angels, Grimes gives us every version of herself 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z The dirge “Let It Rain,” while deep in subject, is a bit hamstrung by its own repetition. CD REVIEW: David Duchovny brings uneven vocals to debut ‘Hell or Highwater’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z He recalls presenting the programme in the mid-1960s and describes it at that time as little more than a "15-minute humourless dirge". Today in Parliament at 70: Britain's 'longest-running soap opera' - BBC News 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z If it is a party song, it is also a dirge. On Sunday Nights, New York’s Busboys Become Cowboys 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The season has become a weeks-long dirge for much of Major League Baseball. Red Sox, Mariners among teams that could quickly become contenders next season 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The fever broke, and the bedside dirges turned to songs of joy over a 5-year-old girl who would believe from then on that she had briefly died and gone to heaven. Horror Drove Her From South. 100 Years Later, She Returned. 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z An accompanying band would play a dirge on the way to the cemetery, and upbeat music on the return. Like New Orleans, second-line parades struggle but survive 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z The Donald devotees sang a contrapuntal tune, simultaneously a dirge to national decline and an ode to Trump. Donald Trump Supporters Vent Frustration In Frank Luntz Focus Group 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z All across Charleston this morning, residents expressed alarm, shock and sadness about the shooting, with #prayforcharleston being used frequently on social media as a collective dirge. Pastor Was an Influential Figure From the Start 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Traditional jazz funerals start slow and solemn with a dirge, usually “A Closer Walk With Thee,” and then build to a celebratory street party honoring the departed. Joyous funeral marches a highlight of New Orleans festival 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Traditional jazz funerals start slow and solemn with a dirge, usually "A Closer Walk With Thee," and then build to a celebratory street party honoring the departed. Joyous funeral marches a highlight of New Orleans festival 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Oliver, disappointed with the "dirge" in the grainy video, enlisted Martin Sheen to make "humanity's final moments happier." Watch John Oliver’s happier version of the CNN Doomsday video 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z There’s a self-evident history of music romanticizing pain: torch songs for abandoned relationships, dirges for tragic deaths, pleading hymns hoping to persuade. Sufjan Stevens' gorgeous new album is what grown-up emotional music should sound like 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Residents of Pleasant Prairie, Wisc., were sounding a dirge Wednesday for the Jelly Belly Candy Co. warehouse, which company officials announced will be sold as operations relocate to Tennessee. Here's How Many Jelly Bellys Ronald Reagan Ate Each Month 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Because she brought music to the family, he forbids it now; to him, every child’s melody has the sound of an obscene dirge for the love he lost. Can Even a Cranky Guy Fall for 'The Sound of Music'? 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z But it's not all a dirge — the one-two combo of "Tender Shoots" and "The Monaco" are unexpectedly among the brightest things the group has done thus far. 8 new songs and albums you should listen to this weekend 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z They expect to play a happy tune, not a dirge. New York Today: Trying to Catch Cuomo 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z But the genre-bending electronic musician and producer—better known by his recording name, Flying Lotus—is not wallowing in grim dirges and meditative farewells. Q&A: How Flying Lotus Recruited Snoop Dogg and Herbie Hancock for a Death-Obsessed Triumph Despite the dirge of bad-news stories about American education, the feeling inside this bright, airy, refurbished and reopened West Seattle school was, overwhelmingly, hope. Skin in the Game, IV: Opening Day, for school and mom 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Since then, the Senate has been locked in a procedural dirge that has left senators discouraged by the notion that the only votes they cast anymore are to confirm nominees such as White. Fifteen years later, Senate confirms Missouri jurist to federal bench The hopeful words of wisdom inscribed on a tea bag take on the weight of an omen; the funeral dirge and the bubbly pop anthem eventually start to sound like the same song. 794 Ways in Which BuzzFeed Reminds Us of Impending Death 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z But what for the 61-year-old Putin amounts to an acute sense of lost glory is for Chernysheva, a baby-faced 18-year-old, a dirge based almost entirely on wistful tales handed down by nostalgic parents. Young Russians never knew the Soviet Union, but they hope to recapture days of its empire Oh for a splash of colour, a smile that isn't a faux-cynical grimace, a blast of pop music instead of metal dirge and orchestral pomp. Choose life! Why video games could do with a 1980s' touch 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z All sing psalms and dirges over a brief, glorious age when the medium attained artistic maturity — before it sank quickly, and perhaps permanently, into focus-group entertainment for the lowest common denominator. REVIEW: Jodorowsky’s Dune: A Great Dream of Movie Madness 2014-03-20T13:00:12Z The Brooklyn Youth Chorus performed the national anthem, then bagpipers and drummers played a dirge. On 9/11 Anniversary, Paying Tribute and Taking Stock Amid New Turmoil Abroad 2013-09-11T12:14:22Z We agree it's a bit of a dirge but there's more than that, in my view. Do the English need an anthem? 2013-04-22T06:00:25Z And then a slow dirge of Afghans, one after the other, described by a closed-circuit television feed from Afghanistan the chaos that unfolded in the dark of their bedrooms that night. At War Blog: The Resilience of Sergeant Bales' Wife 2012-11-28T15:42:19Z But instead of cuing up a dirge, the company is marking the occasion by throwing a music party. Microsoft is bidding Farewell to Zune brand 2012-10-14T02:39:13Z To see her sitting by his side would be the last drop in the cup of humiliation, the deepest note in the solemn dirge of his despair. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z There, in that wild spot, with the sullen waves to sing their perpetual dirge, they slept the sleep of the brave. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z Those who heard the solemn dirge stood still for the space of five minutes with bared heads. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z As they passed, swinging on their way, these men sang a low, wailing chant that might have been a funeral dirge, but which was, in fact, a pirate song of blood and lust and murder. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z Then, as the litanies continued, now the solo from the choir, now the full-voiced responses of the people, I realized these sweet evening melodies could hardly be the dirges of a burial. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z I went as near the village as I dared, and heard the dirge of the flutes and the wailing of the women, when they laid him in the tomb. Joel: A Boy of Galilee 2012-03-24T02:00:17.137Z Another dirge, ending with the sixth stanza of the foregoing, is used at an infant's funeral, but the rhyme is not so well kept. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 108, November 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-20T02:00:10.797Z The music was simple, running upon a few notes, like a dirge, but there were voices in the choir that seemed of a really supernatural sweetness. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Let the dervishes go up in the tower and sing dirges for the fallen! The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z That noble, heroic dirge, the Burial Hymn of Lincoln, begins:— "When Lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd." Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z At midnight dirges were sung, while eager multitudes passed by looking upon the face of the dead. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z When we come to the court poetry we are on firmer ground: unlike the other poems, the dirges and praise-lays are not anonymous and their dates can be determined with some definiteness. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z They wander on with faces wan, And dirges sad as wind. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z Turn to that marvelous dirge, "When Lilacs last in the Dooryard bloomed." The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z By the wooden postern which gave access to the rosary, stood a group of peasants, who humbly bowed to Miss Wolfe, then returned to the dirge of lamentation which her appearance had interrupted. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Beating a dirge upon the bare planks I hear those feet and the creak of a long-locked door. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z Its glitter was reflected in the eyes of Koshiu, who, with a martyr's smile, hearkened to the swell of the dirge. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z The hearse led the way being followed by the great concourse of the members of the church, walking en masse and chanting mournful dirges as they proceeded. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z It was about David and Jonathan; it contained the beautiful lament of friend for friend, the dirge of a brotherly love. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z What little literature there is in the Basque language is naturally of the popular cast—hero songs, dancing songs, dirges, hymns, and folk-lore. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z At that moment, the slow and solemn chant of a funeral dirge sounded from afar. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z A gleam through the still air, and straightway a piteous wail from the onlookers, in harmony with the distant dirge. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z After the dirge, all the heralds and all the Lords went into the Bishop of London’s place, and drank. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z The band marches in front, with slow and measured tread and muffled drum they move, pouring out their melancholy wailings for the dead—a sadder dirge than which never fell upon mortal ear. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z The famous “Dead March” followed, interposing its melancholy instrumentation, and arresting the vocal action of the drama by the pomp of that magnificent dirge. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z In descriptions of the deaths of heroes the dirge is put into the mouth of the dead hero himself. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z I sweep for them a p�an, but they wane Again and yet again Into a dirge and die away in pain. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z The transition was from lamentation to love-making; from stanzas swaying slow, like a dirge, within their uniform compass, to an abundant variety of metrical movement, quickened by frequent use of the anapæstic measure. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Warrior, rest! a dirge is knelling Solemnly from shore to shore: ’Tis a nation’s tribute, telling That a patriot is no more! Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z There appeared to be at least six hall-porters, and there were page-boys innumerable, who drifted about in all directions wearing worried expressions and chanting a mysterious dirge which sounded like "Mr. Hah-Hah, please!" A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Nevertheless, the song he sings to his "turtle dove" sounds more like a dirge than a rapture. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Already in the Iliad a secular character belongs to the marriage hymn and to the dirge for the dead, which in ancient India were chanted by the priest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z He sings the dirge of the departed summer. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z A dirge of unrivaled beauty arises from the orchestra like a flower from the earth. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z The dead are carried to the tomb in an open coffin; in the country districts professional mourners are engaged to chant dirges; the body is washed with wine and crowned with a wreath of flowers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Again the dirge of the pipes, and the sweet strains of "Lochaber no more" fill the evening air. The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z When the spirit is reluctant to be brought up, a solemn dirge is chanted by the people. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z It was as solemn as a dirge in its adagio movement, till the high treble began to flutter into the motif, and dragged it upward, with a brilliant run, into a suggestion of running water. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z As a rule the Arabian dirge is very simple. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z At any other time the music would have been inspiriting, but, in the humour I was in, the gayest marches sounded like funeral dirges. The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z No song but sad dirges, Like the wind through a ruined cell, Or the mournful surges That ring the dead seaman’s knell. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Nobody raised an objection to his request, so he received permission to build his own pyre and to play his own dirge. Folk-Tales of the Khasis 2011-11-01T02:00:19.730Z I sang his dirge, I could sing that time Four thousand staves of ancestral rhyme: To-day I can scarcely sing the half: Of old I was corn, and I now am chaff! A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats 2011-10-27T02:00:26.373Z A funeral dirge instead of songs of joy and gladness! Rambles with John Burroughs 2011-10-22T02:00:31.317Z Sometimes he bored me a little, for the tone of his conversation was not cheerful, tending as it did almost exclusively to a melancholy dirge over the financial prostration of our common country. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Sound, sound may he sleep, while wind and waves shall sing his dirge. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z The Khasis were so impressed by the suitability of the sharati to express sorrow and grief that they have adopted that instrument ever since to play their dirges at times of cremation. Folk-Tales of the Khasis 2011-11-01T02:00:19.730Z A solemn dirge was sung as they went along, and a number of young maidens joined in the chorus. Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 2011-09-27T02:00:20.260Z Then death flapp’d wildly his wings on the moor, As his soul took its flight to a heavenly shore— The lightning flash’d fiercely, the howling winds surge, The thunder pealed loudly the hero’s wild dirge! Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z I seem to hear a dirge in that wind outside. In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z There was the mournfulness of the funeral dirge and knell, in the crack of the driver's whip, and in the rattling of the coach-wheels. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z The Siem alone of all the people in the village had withstood the fascination of the dirge. Folk-Tales of the Khasis 2011-11-01T02:00:19.730Z The drums ceased, and from the military band wailed forth another dirge more weirdly sad than that first played. Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876 2011-09-13T02:00:36.647Z From out of the smoke and flames, the maddened desperadoes chorussed this dirge. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z The tree, with its leaves in luxuriance shading My path in the tune-yielding time of the year, Now sighs in its dirge, while its foliage, fading, Descends to its sepulchre withered and sere. Verses of Feeling and Fancy 2011-09-11T02:00:10.237Z The girls, all hand in hand, flew round the men, singing a plaintive, dreamy sort of dirge, while the men stamped fiercely on the ground and uttered an intermittent wail. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z The river laps lazily against the grassy slope which covers the princely ones, and the wind rushing through the trees, sings their dirge. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z At a quarter before two o’clock the gleam of bayonets appeared in Schermerhorn street, and the winds bore fitfully the strains of a dirge played by a military band. Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876 2011-09-13T02:00:36.647Z Listen to the jackals chanting their dirge of the empty stomach! The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z The old year is dying, Its last hour is hieing Over the verge; The night winds are plying, And are mournfully sighing Its funeral dirge. Verses of Feeling and Fancy 2011-09-11T02:00:10.237Z A Bible, no doubt, and a psalm-tune, and Covenanting dirge, made up of profanity and high treason in equal proportions. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z Failure gives baseball its pleasing, melancholic tang; the boys of summer are always in ruin, after all, and the dirge of the Cubs forever drowns out the anthem of the Yankees. Essay: Essay - A Veteran Baseball Novel Comes Off the Bench - By Matt Weiland 2011-08-26T22:51:34Z Near Bergen street the dirge which the band had been playing up to that point ceased, and the roll of twenty-four muffled tenor drums marked the time for the steps of the military. Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876 2011-09-13T02:00:36.647Z Enter immediately, and during the cries and clapping, a chorus of Water-Nymphs in transparent veils and garlands of willows and lilies, which sings to a solemn counterpoint, the dirge of ARIADNE. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z Quietly a funeral dirge Mourns balefully amid the breeze, Heard by all and yet ignored As if death denied may not unfold. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z Whereupon they began to recite with serious faces and ludicrous lack of vocal expression, illustrating the “dirge” with wooden gestures. Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z Thereupon, while the Prior continued with the dying man, consoling and supporting him, we betook ourselves to the choir, and sang the usual dirge for the soul's weal of our departing brother. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z The words repeated themselves interminably—a monotonous dirge. Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z The Chorus and orchestra continue the dirge for ARIADNE. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z Bare shrubs sighed their gusty dirges at his heels. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z A dirge means a song for the dead. Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students 2011-08-05T02:00:47.727Z We weave no dirge for thee,— It should not call a tear To know that thou art free; Thy home,—it was not here! Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z First, the fall of Pharaoh is described in a parable and then follows the lamentations, a funeral dirge over Pharaoh. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z If we cannot spin our tops briskly as boys do theirs, the wailers may chant their dirges over us. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z The chorus, robed in sable mourning cloaks, appeared and began the dirge for the dying God. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Insects were singing a melancholy dirge around me; a bee droned past in great haste, with a consequential hum; the year was passing and dying, like a vibration over the earth. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z "I," said the thrush, "As I sing in a bush, I'll sing his dirge." National Rhymes of the Nursery 2011-07-12T02:00:29.700Z After that follows another wail, a solemn dirge, over the Egyptian multitudes which have passed into sheol. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z Scarcely was this impromptu dirge brought to a close when a group was descried advancing towards the camp, waving something white. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z The dirge of the chorus had died away. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z When disturbed, their sentinels blow the alarm, and away they go, piping their dismal dirge, until it dies afar in the sky. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z As they pushed into the swift current she chanted an unearthly dirge. Legends of The Kaw The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley 2011-07-01T02:00:16.500Z In the second half of this chapter, the concluding section of these prophecies against Egypt, we find a solemn dirge over the doomed people. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z O Piper, processioning proudly Round tables where men sit at meat, Performing your pibrochs so loudly That no human voice can compete, What memories tender your dirges engender! The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) 2011-06-29T02:00:30.303Z But only for an instant; and a dirge, sad as the contrite's weeping, clear as the accents of forgiveness, came from that wondrous organ. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z The wail of the storm seemed a dirge to pent thoughts. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z The tune that they were playing sounded like a dirge to poor Dolly's heart, and so she sank back silently and let down her crape veil. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z But at the same time he saw something in these features which appalled him; a terrible depression seized his heart, as when in the midst of dance and song someone begins to chant a dirge. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Then the body is laid on a bed of state, and the leaders of a choir of professional minstrels sing a dirge, which is at times interrupted by the wailing of the women. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z They were followed by an armed guard, and preceded, oriental fashion, by a band of singers chanting a melancholy dirge. 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God 2011-05-26T02:00:15.987Z Its resurgent dirge stirs vague forebodings which root in the calamitous experience of the race. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z Who once has listened, ever can hear its long refrain With haunting echo drowning or dirge or flaunting strain. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z Equally enduring is the melodious wail—“Break, break, break,” one of the sweetest dirges in all literature. Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson 2011-05-14T02:00:10.627Z Together with the dirge, a more or less serious measure of self-disfigurement has come down from an early date. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z These dirges are again and again extemporized with spontaneous poetic feeling. An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z The dread words sound like a wail, The song of the waits, and the clash of the bells, Ring like death-bed dirges or funeral knells, In the pauses of the gale. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z He fled, with suppressed tears, unconcerned who saw it or did not see it, out of the garden, over which a dark angel let float a great funereal banner and the music of a dirge. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z Ten minutes later, the same dirge started anew. In a Triage Tent in Libya, a Grim Procession 2011-04-18T01:59:11Z When the dirge is ended they join hands and dance frantically round the plank on which the body lies. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z This is like the direct opening notes of the overture of a dirge. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z But the livelong night yon thistlefinch has sung under the casement—she sings the last dirge of the Lady of Arestino! Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z As it moved toward the Coney Island Boardwalk on West 12th Street on Sunday afternoon, the Jambalaya Brass Band played a hypnotic dirge. Jazzy Funeral Parade Marks Coney Island?s Death and Rebirth 2011-04-04T02:00:08Z But, since the tears by sorrow shed Are vain as dirge to wake the dead, In prudent care, and not in grief, All human ills must find relief.” History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z And when my dirges all are done, And lights extinguished be, Then shall my heart, O well-beloved, Still be possessed of thee. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Witness it! ye many years of wondrous alternation—of lurid tempest and sunny calm—of disastrous rout and triumphant procession—of shouting pæan and wailing dirge—witness the imperturbable tenor of our way! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Dusky, stately forms ride by, and the wail of the dirge sounds on the evening breeze. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z She talked herself into a glow, with picturing how greatly the great breast of the old man would be moved by the dirge and pæan over the ashes of his princely friend. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z Then the most solemn music was played, the most agonising wailing dirges were sung, and the nuns coming behind with a great black pall, spread it over the prostrate figures. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z His companions stand round and sing a dirge in the most dolorous tones. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The Sexton’s melancholy dirge, in the twenty-ninth chapter of Pickwick, seems a little incongruous in a humorous work. The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens 2011-03-11T03:00:15.587Z First come the musicians, playing a dirge,—on this last occasion a funeral march from Beethoven. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z I sing the dirges pale Of kisses lost and cold; On love's thin grass I behold Weddings of them that ail. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z At the gate stood white-robed monks around a coffin; the black smoke of their red, flickering torches darkened the bright spring air; from their lips sounded a dirge. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z Her vocero may be cited here as affording a good idea of the tone and spirit of the vendetta dirges in general. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Undaunted by his croaking, we pursued our way to the right side of the glacier, while our guide, who had a ballad appropriate to every occasion, sang rather gaspingly a tremulous little funeral dirge. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z The slow, sad voice of the dirge announced the approach of the procession, the whole effect of which was intensely solemn and impressive. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z It was the dirge of the mermaidens, as they wail over the drowned sailor and bear him with song and lament to his burial cavern. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z It is as though the same hand that wrote the Christening Ode to Liberalism, had composed a dirge to be chanted over its grave. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z After some inarticulate wailing, which is strenuously echoed back by the neighbours, the dirge is sung, the chief female mourner usually leading off, and whosoever feels disposed following wake. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Since beneath it He lay, dim, Cold and still each tortured limb, Buried are His own with Him, Yet the dirge is all a hymn. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z I do not even think that this great dirge—this magnificent funeral poem—has excited in most of us any strong interest in Arthur Hallam. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z The dirge, the threnody, the elegy, these constitute the bulk of much poetry, ancient and modern. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z A cold storm of wind and rain was wailing its midnight dirges in harmony with the awful scene of carnage, destruction, and woe, about to ensue. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z The Gascon dirge is a kind of prose recitative made up of distinct exclamations that fall into irregular strophes. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The trouble is that it has the same tune as the terrible dirge God Save the Queen. This is London calling for Radio 4 listeners 2011-02-12T00:05:50Z By-and-bye, tired nature whiles you to the silent land; but the dirge goes with you even to the world of dreams. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z Some of the most effective poetry in the Bible are the cries of David in the Psalms and the dirges in Lamentations. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z I have found that the dirge here goes naturally into a sort of Ossianic rhythm. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z An eyewitness of the scene described the dirge as a monotonous chant. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Their religious worship inspired rude hymns to their gods; their generals, coming home, inscribed the records of their victory in rough Saturnian verse on commemorative tablets; there were ballads at banquets, and dirges at funerals. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z Wordsworth’s Lucy, on the other hand, is a dirge; this is too brief a burst of emotion to be styled an elegy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Burns's poems are chiefly dirges of some kind. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z With a dirge of the Thracian mountains, I mourn for thee, O my son. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z So they betook themselves to the mother's door and played a dirge over her child. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Defeat tomorrow would lead to their mood music being more dirge than anthem but victory would empower a team that should long ago have grown out of the need for reassurance. The Breakdown 2011-02-03T12:25:43Z The rhythm of a melancholy dirge became the rhythm of duplicity in the garb of innocence. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The dirge is most human and appealing to us. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Blanche struck hers only to the saddest of tunes; and sang elegies over her dead hopes, dirges over her early frost-nipt buds of affection, as became such a melancholy fate and muse. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z A moment of confusion ensued, the dancers stopped, the middle of the room was cleared, the music played again a low dirge. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z So, if that's a blaring dirge you seem to be hearing in your headphones, you may want to transfer your funds, stat. A Creative Promotion Gets Hairy 2011-01-05T16:56:52Z P�ans for the living, dirges for the dead. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z Another answered it; another took it up; and the melancholy baying wavered from roof to roof—a tuneless dirge. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Bob shouted cheerily as he and Joe disappeared around a clump of bushes, leaving Walter alone with the mournful lip, lip, lip of the sea ringing in his ears like a funeral dirge. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z Now the bell of a distant church began to ring slowly—the evening song, the dirge of the dying day. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z At length, she distinguished a plaintive and melodious union of voices, that resembled the dirges which are sung over tombs. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Oh! let me be on the stormy sea, Where the raging billows bound; Where the roaring surge and mournful dirge Is ever heard around; Where the wild winds sigh, as they whistle by. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z It was also formerly used for a tune, especially one of a mournful kind, a dirge. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Only sad grief sat beside him and sang her mournful dirge like the croaking of a crow of evil omen. Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z Instead, as Europe’s 2010 dirge of debt and deficit drags on, the issue is if Germany’s logic and decisions are the right ones. Politicus: Questioning Germany's Economic Model for Europe 2010-11-22T11:40:00Z The Northern Irish anthem is, of course, that dirge. Northern Ireland v Italy - live! 2010-10-08T18:06:00Z The Danish one is a bit of a dirge and should really only be used as the closing credits of a lunchtime documentary on some shortwave radio station. Holland v Denmark - live! 2010-06-14T10:30:00Z His dirge thankfully stops, to be replaced by the much more tuneful vuvuzelas. Relive the World Cup opening ceremony 2010-06-11T11:29:00Z The lyrics from a famous Bruce Springsteen dirge, "Youngstown," wafted about in my head: "Here in Youngstown/ Here in Youngstown/ My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down." Semper Youngstown 2010-05-01T16:00:00Z Silence and solitude reign throughout the courts, undisturbed by any sound save that of the ceaseless winds, which seem to be ever chanting their melancholy dirge over the faded glories of the Escorial. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies But it was the romance of youth's fairest dream, the springtime of love, that was with them now, and they were blind to falling leaves and the dirge of coming gloom after summer sunshine. A Blot on the Scutcheon But now thy strain is as one that grieves— Thou singest the dirge of the falling leaves! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 He was carried into the Chapel, and there a funeral dirge was played, an excellent prayer by Dr. Cooper, and an oration by Mr. Morton, which I hope will be printed. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams The sailors, desirous of hearing so famous a musician, consented, and the poet, standing on the deck of the ship, in full minstrel’s attire, sang a dirge accompanied by his lyre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" Peer or no peer, he might know better than to sing "Peculiar Julia" by way of dirge for one whose minutes of life, or at any rate, liberty, was numbered. A Poached Peerage It is a fitting dirge for a great legendary epoch. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race How the engines throbbed, throbbed, throbbed, and seemed to catch the tempo of the distant music, and like muffled drums beat time to it as to a dirge! The Belovéd Traitor Ourself your daughter dead will see Entomb'd with all solemnity Of dirge and mass, in her last slumber, And vigils also without number. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 When the dirge was sung, and the ceremonies over, and Charles had, as it were, come back for a little while to life, he told his confessor that he felt the better for being buried. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 The winds and the waters, in their gentler breathings and their sullen roar, are but the music of his mind, echo his joys, his passions, or funereally rehearse the dirge of his fate. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 Clear, boyish voices, well-trained, fresh, and pure, as children alone sing ere they have learned to understand the solemnity of death and can not belie their joyousness even in a dirge. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History Modulated by Lionel, under the depressing influence of Mrs. Barker, it became a dirge, incredibly painful to the ear. The Gay Adventure A Romance It seemed to her that the dirge through the brown-gray forests and the shriek of blasts along the gorges were blended into an untamable litany. The Tempering It was the dirge of the Live Oak. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories And Mary’s grace my fault shall purge, While skylarks plead my cause above, And breezy rivers sing my dirge, Because I loved and died of Love. The Moonlit Way A chorus of assent rose like a dirge. The Frightened Planet There was no wailing of the pagan nænia or funeral dirge, neither was there the chanting of the Christian hymn. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs The dirge for the dead arose in a volume well regulated and sustained as the men marched from the hall at last for the final trial on the street. The Broken Gate A Novel The martial dirge, with the sound of its muffled drum, was daily mingled with the groans of the dying. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 We have many airs belonging to this style, which are now commonly called Keens, i.e., laments, or dirges. A Reading Book in Irish History In a moment he appeared and at a given signal they buzzed out of my sight, humming a farewell dirge as they went. Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder A terrible pestilence strikes down the inhabitants of these sylvan lawns, and gloomy funerals, and the pathetic strains of dirges take the place of dances and lively songs. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance That funeral dirge to darkness hath resigned The fiery grandeur of a generous mind. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII "The rarest——" "Where no song ever swells, and the dirge of the river pleads and pleads for the soul of faith murdered...." Love's Usuries Again, take that splendid dirge in memory of President Lincoln, majestic in its music, spacious and grand in its treatment. The Vagabond in Literature His dirge on Oliver and his men, composed shortly after Monk had declared for Charles II., is a piece quite unique in its way. The Welsh and Their Literature from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition It is the common refrain of all her sorrowful dirges,—the sadder that no response ever comes to the lonely cry. Faith and Unfaith It is the dirge of baseball which has broken the hearts of pitchers ever since the game began and will continue to do so as long as it lives. Pitching in a Pinch or, Baseball from the Inside Body placed in an ambulance, 1st Brigade band playing a sweet but mournful dirge. An Artilleryman's Diary Hunting songs, love songs, funeral dirges, songs of nature, of childhood, of home, of country, all have a literature of their own. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. Near the church round the corner they've laid him at last, Where the willows 'n sympathy wave, And the mocking-bird, chorister meet for a Czar, Gently warbles a dirge o'er his grave. Harper's Round Table, July 30, 1895 Picture the two along the Strand—Long Will singing his dirges for hire, and Chaucer, his hand full of parchments, bustling past. English Costume Our shroud!—our dirge!—our requiem! that tells us of hell! for I am a murderer, and you—” He had the strength of ten strong men. Seven Frozen Sailors To make matters worse, Mrs Thorne would keep up a doleful dirge of repining. The New Mistress A Tale There should be my playfellows to chant a dirge over my early departure from this life; and the holy Imam to repeat the prayers for the dead. My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa She would follow up one of Pergolese's mournful dirges with a merry Tyrolese carol. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine With that sound moaning behind him he went up out of the hollow, like a man setting forth to the music of his own dirge. The Tree of Life Longing and melancholy dirges are the portion of my lot. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards |
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