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Dirge, the Glossary

A dirge (url-status) is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as may be appropriate for performance at a funeral.^[1]

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A Dirge

"A Dirge" is a poetic dirge composed by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Alms

Alms are money, food, or other material goods donated to people living in poverty.

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Antiphon

An antiphon (Greek ἀντίφωνον, ἀντί "opposite" and φωνή "voice") is a short chant in Christian ritual, sung as a refrain.

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The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Breviary

A breviary (Latin: breviarium) is a liturgical book used in Christianity for praying the canonical hours, usually recited at seven fixed prayer times.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Canonical hours

In the practice of Christianity, canonical hours mark the divisions of the day in terms of fixed times of prayer at regular intervals.

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Canonical visitation

In the Catholic Church, a canonical visitation is the act of an ecclesiastical superior who in the discharge of his office visits persons or places with a view to maintaining faith and discipline and of correcting abuses.

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Carol Rumens

Carol Rumens FRSL (born 10 December 1944) is a British poet.

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Christian liturgy

Christian liturgy is a pattern for worship used (whether recommended or prescribed) by a Christian congregation or denomination on a regular basis.

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Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember".

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.

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Cleveland, Yorkshire

Cleveland is a land of hills and dales from the River Tees to Vale of Pickering, England.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Cymbeline

Cymbeline, also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early historical Celtic British King Cunobeline.

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Darwell Stone

Darwell Stone (1859–1941) was an Anglo-Catholic theologian and Church of England priest.

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Death and culture

Death is dealt with differently in cultures around the world, and there are ethical issues relating to death, such as martyrdom, suicide and euthanasia.

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Death wail

The death wail is a keening, mourning lament, generally performed in ritual fashion soon after the death of a member of a family or tribe. Dirge and death wail are death music and laments.

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Eamon Duffy

Eamon Duffy (born 1947) is an Irish historian.

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Elegy

An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. Dirge and elegy are laments.

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.

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Elizabeth Livingstone

Elizabeth Anne Livingstone (7 July 1929 – 1 January 2023), also known as E. A. Livingstone, was an English Anglican theologian, who specialised in patristics.

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English Reformation

The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England was forced by its monarchs and elites to break away from the authority of the Pope and the Catholic Church.

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Etymology

Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.

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Evensong

Evensong is a church service traditionally held near sunset focused on singing psalms and other biblical canticles.

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F. L. Cross

Frank Leslie Cross (22 January 1900 – 30 December 1968), usually cited as F. L. Cross, was an English patristics scholar and Anglican priest.

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Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances.

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Funeral march

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. Dirge and funeral march are death music.

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Gerald Finzi

Gerald Raphael Finzi (14 July 1901 – 27 September 1956) was a British composer.

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Grief

Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the loss of someone or some living thing that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed.

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Herbert Thurston

Herbert Henry Charles Thurston (15 November 1856 – 3 November 1939) was an English priest of the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the Jesuit order, and a prolific scholar on liturgical, literary, historical, and spiritual matters.

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Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification. Dirge and hymn are song forms.

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Jesus

Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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Keening

Keening is a traditional form of vocal lament for the dead in the Gaelic Celtic tradition, known to have taken place in Ireland and Scotland. Dirge and Keening are death music.

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Laity

In religious organizations, the laity consists of all members who are not part of the clergy, usually including any non-ordained members of religious orders, e.g. a nun or a lay brother.

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Lament

A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. Dirge and lament are death music and laments.

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Lament bass

In music, the lament bass is a ground bass, built from a descending perfect fourth from tonic to dominant, with each step harmonized.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lauds

Lauds is a canonical hour of the Divine office.

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Liturgy

Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lyke Wake Walk

The Lyke Wake Walk is a challenge walk across the highest and widest part of the North York Moors National Park in North Yorkshire, England.

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Lyke-Wake Dirge

The "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is a traditional English folk song and dirge listed as number 8194 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Dirge and Lyke-Wake Dirge are death music.

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Matins

Matins (also Mattins) is a canonical hour in Christian liturgy, originally sung during the darkness of early morning.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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Mourning

Mourning is the expression of an experience that is the consequence of an event in life involving loss, causing grief.

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Musical setting

A musical setting is a musical composition that is written on the basis of a literary work.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber and North East regions of England.

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Office of the Dead

The Office of the Dead or Office for the Dead (in Latin, Officium Defunctorum) is a prayer cycle of the Canonical Hours in the Catholic Church, Anglican Church and Lutheran Church, said for the repose of the soul of a decedent.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Parish church

A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish.

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Pentangle (band)

Pentangle are a British folk band, formed in London in 1967.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets.

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Percy Dearmer

Percival Dearmer (1867–1936) was an English Anglican priest and liturgist best known as the author of The Parson's Handbook, a liturgical manual for Anglican clergy, and as editor of The English Hymnal.

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Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.

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Poetry Foundation

The Poetry Foundation is a United States literary society that seeks to promote poetry and lyricism in the wider culture.

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Prayer for the dead

Religions with the belief in a final judgment, a resurrection of the dead or an intermediate state (such as Hades or purgatory) often offer prayers on behalf of the dead to God.

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Primer (prayer book)

Primer (primarium; Middle English: primmer, also spelled prymer) is the name for a variety of devotional prayer books that originated among educated medieval laity in the 14th century, particularly in England.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Psalm 119

Psalm 119 is the 119th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in the English of the King James Version: "Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord".

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Psalm 139

Psalm 139 is the 139th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me".

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Psalm 5

Psalm 5 is the fifth psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation".

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.

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Reformation

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirge

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Anglican church music

Catholic music

Christian funeral music

Death music

Laments

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