"Funeral march" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his chair, and, with a parting look of forgiveness, he went into the house and began to improvise (rather dismally) a well-known funeral march. Or perhaps it was only a coincidence. Perhaps he would have thought ...
— The Limit • Ada Leverson
... wait until she had heard them, and fell to biting his nails nervously. She re-read the program and all the advertisements, hypnotized, like every one else in the audience, by the sight of printed matter. She noticed that the first number of this memorial concert was the funeral march from the Goetterdaemmerung, which she knew very well from having heard a good many times a rather thin version of it for four strings ...
— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield
... rear of the homely catafalque. But whether from the narrowing of the road or some present sense of decorum, as the cart passed on, the company fell to the rear in couples, keeping step, and otherwise assuming the external show of a formal procession. Jack Folinsbee, who had at the outset played a funeral march in dumb show upon an imaginary trombone, desisted from a lack of sympathy and appreciation,—not having, perhaps, your true humorist's capacity to be content with the enjoyment of ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... acquainted with the Funeral March from Chopin's Pianoforte Sonata. His musical education had, in truth, begun only a year earlier—with the advertisements of the "Pianisto" mechanical player. He was a judge of advertisements, and the "Pianisto" literature pleased him in ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... joyous canticle of the Catholic church, "O Filii et Filiae," is in the minor. "The Romanesca," a dance air of the sixteenth century, is equally in the minor, just like all the dance airs of Lully, and of Rameau, and the gavottes of Sebastian Bach. The celebrated "Funeral March" of Haendel, reproduced in many of his works, is in C Major. The delicious love duo of Acis and Galathee, which changes to a trio by the addition of the part of Polyphemus, is in A Minor. When Galathee weeps afterward over the death of Acis, the air is in ...
— On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music • Camille Saint-Saens
... the army, sad and spiritless, turned its face toward the Loire, and marched—without music! Yes, one noted that detail. It was a funeral march; that is what it was. A long, dreary funeral march, with never a shout or a cheer; friends looking on in tears, all the way, enemies laughing. We reached Gien at last—that place whence we had set out on our splendid march toward Rheims less than three ...
— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Volume 2 • Mark Twain
... hastened her death. In keeping with the lyric trend of his genius, Grieg has ignored the grotesque and ghastly humor of the situation, and has contented himself with portraying its sombre and tragic aspect, his music being in character somewhat like a funeral march. ...
— The Pianolist - A Guide for Pianola Players • Gustav Kobb
... Chopin's, played with gaiety and brilliancy, yet no funeral march ever sounded more fatefully in ...
— The Man Who Lost Himself • H. De Vere Stacpoole
... Chuma took up their precious burden, and, looking to Livingstone's God for help, began the most remarkable funeral march on record. They followed the track their master had marked with his footsteps when he penetrated to Lake Bangweolo, passing to the south of Lake Lumbi, which is a continuation of Tanganyika, then crossing to Unyanyembe, ...
— Stories Worth Rereading • Various
... and kind words denied the young man's formally repeated pleadings. They finished tea to the strains of a funeral march. ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson |
