A funeral march (Marche funèbre in French, Marcia funebre in Italian, Trauermarsch in German, Marsz żałobny in Polish), as a musical genre, is a march, usually in a minor key, in a slow 'simple duple' metre, imitating the solemn pace of a funeral procession. Some such marches are often considered appropriate for use during funerals and other sombre occasions, the most well-known being that of Chopin. Handel uses the name dead march, also used for marches played by a military band at military funerals and executions.
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Examples in classical music include:
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- The Marche funèbre second movement of Charles-Valentin Alkan's Symphony for solo piano, Op. 39, No. 5.
- Alkan's 'Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot' for four-part chorus, three bassoons, and oboe.
- The second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (Eroica).
- The third movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 12 (written in the key of A-flat minor with a middle section in A-flat major).
- A funeral march, formerly attributed to Beethoven (WoO Anhang 13), believed to be by Johann Heinrich Walch, played annually at the National Service of Remembrance at The Cenotaph, Whitehall.
- The Funeral March for the Final Scene of Hamlet by Hector Berlioz.
- The eighth variation from Benjamin Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10.
- Marche funèbre for piano written by Frédéric Chopin in 1837, which became the 3rd movement of his Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35.
- Chopin's Marche funèbre for piano in C minor, Op. posth. 72, No. 2.
- The funeral march in Ferdinand David's Concertino for Trombone and Orchestra.
- The Trauermarsch written by Anton Diabelli in memory of Michael Haydn for solo guitar.
- Introduction and Funeral March in Edward Elgar's Grania and Diarmid, Op. 42, the score for the play Diarmuid and Grania.
- The funeral march from Zdeněk Fibich's opera The Bride of Messina.
- The 'Funeral Music' for Akhnaten's father in Act I of the opera Akhnaten, by Philip Glass.
- The Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod (1872); this later became known to contemporary audiences as the theme music used for the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series (1955–65)
- The Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak by Edvard Grieg.
- The Marche funèbre et chant séraphique (Funeral March and Seraphic Song), for organ, Op.17, No.3, by Alexandre Guilmant.
- The Dead March from Saul by George Frideric Handel.
- The third movement of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No.3 in E-Flat Minor Op.30
- A funeral march for Napoleon Bonaparte, in Háry János, by Zoltán Kodály, after Napoleon has been defeated by the hero Háry János.
- Franz Liszt's Marche funèbre, En mémoire de Maximilian I, Empereur du Mexique ('Funeral march, In memory of Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico') from Années de pèlerinage, Book 3.
- Liszt's Trauervorspiel und Trauermarsch, S.206 (written in 1885 (the year before he died), and published three years later in 1888)
- The third movement of Gustav Mahler's first symphony, 'Funeral March in the Manner of Callot' based on 'Bruder Martin', the German minor-key variant of the children's song 'Frère Jacques.', and the Trauermarsch opening movement of his Symphony No. 5.
- The funeral march for Lìu in the opera Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini.
- The March 'sounded before her chariot' from Henry Purcell's Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary.
- The fourth movement of Alexander Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 1.
- John Serry Sr.'s Elegy for Organ (1984 Revised 1991)
- The 'Funeral March:' Adagio Molto from Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15.
- The funeral march In Memoriam by Jean Sibelius.
- 'Siegfried's Funeral March' from Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner.
- The fourth piece, 'Langsam, marcia funebre', from Anton Webern's 6 Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6.
Classical music examples with the character of a funeral march but not specifically titled as funeral marches include:
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- Maurerische Trauermusik ('Masonic Funeral Music') by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- The theme from Beethoven's 'Nine Variations on a March by Ernst Christoph Dressler' for piano, WoO 63, is a funeral march.
- Song Without Words, Op. 62, No. 3, by Felix Mendelssohn; this is often called 'Trauermarsch,' but it is so called without the composer's approval.
- Chopin original gave the title 'At the Cemetery' to Nocturne#6 in G minor, Op. 15, but he eventually dropped any programmatic title for the piece.
- The 2nd movement of Johannes Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem has the characteristics of a funeral march, but it is in a slow triple metre.
- The song 'Der Tamboursg'sell' ('The Drummer Boy') from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, by Gustav Mahler.
- Zaubermarsch, a composition for orchestra written in 1990 by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero.
- Surusoitto (Funeral Music) for organ, Op. 111b (1931), from '2 Pieces in memory of Akseli Gallen-Kallela', by Jean Sibelius.
Examples in contemporary popular music include:
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- Part IX of Pink Floyd'sShine On You Crazy Diamond (Wish You Were Here, 1975) has been described as 'a slow 4/4 funeral march... the parting musical eulogy to Syd Barrett'[1] by David Gilmour.
- Jelly Roll Morton's 'Dead Man Blues'.
- Duke Ellington's 'Black and Tan Fantasy'.
- Chico Buarque's 'Funeral de um Lavrador' which appeared in the film adaptation of João Cabral de Melo Neto's Morte e Vida Severina.
- The Protomen's 'Funeral for a Son,' the second track from their eponymous debut album.
- Despite not being a literal funeral march, John T. Williams's 'Imperial March,' from the Star Wars films, retains many characteristics of one.
- The Olympia Brass Band had a notable part in the 1973 James Bond movie Live and Let Die in which they play a band leading a funeral march and one of Bond's associates is assassinated during the march. Trumpeter Alvin Alcorn plays the knife wielding 'baby-faced killer'.
- WWE professional wrestler The Undertaker's entrance theme samples Chopin's funeral march.
- Electronic music producer Deadmau5 is also using Chopin's Funeral march theme in his song 'Moar Ghosts 'n' Stuff'. His track 'Clockwork', sampled from Cygnus X - 'Orange Theme', which itself uses the title music of the film A Clockwork Orange, which is an adaptation of Henry Purcell's Funeral March for Queen Mary.
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- Queen's 'Procession' march, opening track from their second album, Queen II.
- American rapper and actor, Mos Def. From his 2004 album The New Danger has a song titled 'BedStuy parade & Funeral March' although not a literal funeral march this song has some characteristics of dirge music.
- C418's Ward, includes the Funeral march as its intro in the popular game Minecraft.
- UFX's 'Dead' from the 2006 album Crack includes part of Chopin's Funeral March in the introduction.
- Queens of the Stone Age's 'Mosquito Song' from the 2002 album Songs for the Deaf incorporates elements of a Funeral march, most notably from Alain Johannes's Flamenco style guitar playing.
- Coil's final song 'Going Up' on their final album The Ape of Naples serves as a funeral dirge and farewell for the lead singer, John Balance, who died a year prior from falling off a balcony.
- Wild Gunman for the NES plays the first part of this when the player loses.
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- ^Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, Sputnik Music, January 2012
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