A song sung before or after someone's death or to commemorate the dead.
哀歌
Example sentencesExamples
‘Last Kiss’, a teenage death song recorded by J. Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers was based on a true-life tale.
As many as 100 of the dead were women and children; two were unarmed chiefs in their 70s, mowed down as they chanted their death songs.
The key Rossetti was his large black chalk drawing of Desdemona's death song, a project the artist had suggested for the centrepiece of the music room of his patron F.R. Leyland.
His wife and his foster mother were chanting a Grow death song over his body.
Then in the process of deciding on some sort of theme to run through the album, I decided maybe to do the death songs.
A Personal Chant form of song, used more recently for thanksgiving, is reminiscent of warrior death songs of the past.
I want to shout a wild-eyed ‘time to sing your death song! ‘to anyone who stands in my way.’
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
One of his three grandmothers sang a Cree death song she had learned from her grandparents, as family members and friends gathered to say their goodbyes.
Notwithstanding the preceding examples, it is important to remember that the teenage death song represented an addition to, rather than a replacement of the conventional practices of professional songwriters.
Definition of death song in US English:
death song
noun
A song sung before or after someone's death or to commemorate the dead.
哀歌
Example sentencesExamples
The key Rossetti was his large black chalk drawing of Desdemona's death song, a project the artist had suggested for the centrepiece of the music room of his patron F.R. Leyland.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Then in the process of deciding on some sort of theme to run through the album, I decided maybe to do the death songs.
One of his three grandmothers sang a Cree death song she had learned from her grandparents, as family members and friends gathered to say their goodbyes.
As many as 100 of the dead were women and children; two were unarmed chiefs in their 70s, mowed down as they chanted their death songs.
‘Last Kiss’, a teenage death song recorded by J. Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers was based on a true-life tale.
His wife and his foster mother were chanting a Grow death song over his body.
I want to shout a wild-eyed ‘time to sing your death song! ‘to anyone who stands in my way.’
A Personal Chant form of song, used more recently for thanksgiving, is reminiscent of warrior death songs of the past.
Notwithstanding the preceding examples, it is important to remember that the teenage death song represented an addition to, rather than a replacement of the conventional practices of professional songwriters.