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something to honor the memory of someone who died — especially music written for that purpose or a ceremony

They played Mozart's Requiem Mass in D minor.

The film is called Requiem for a Dream.
She wrote a moving requiem.
her career retrospective entitled Requiem
And on the morn the hermit that sometime was Bishop of Canterbury sang the mass of Requiem with great devotion.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur
The Reverend DeWitt's requiem at the cemetery was a capsulated version of what he had told us at the mortuary.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
And on the morn the hermit that sometime was Bishop of Canterbury sang the mass of Requiem with great devotion.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II
Requiem aeternam Bona eis.
Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The cardinal, like an archangel in cope and mitre, sprinkled the holy water; the organ broke into sound; the choir began to sing the Requiem Eternam.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
No more be done; We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls.
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
And I should be sorry to have to dedicate my Requiem Mass to you!
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
"I'd want Mozart's Requiem," I said.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
And I found it more or less appropriate that the French word for shark, requin, has its linguistic roots in the word requiem.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
The grave voice began again:— "Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine."
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
The Romish mass for the dead begins with "Requiem eternam" (eternal rest), whence REQUIEM denominating the mass itself, and any other funeral music.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Or had the creatures already joined their voices together in a requiem for the dying Earth?
Kass Morgan -- The 100
I had a requiem service.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
It is simply my business to say, as Leonora's people say: "Requiem aeternam dona eis, Do mine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
It was Homer's requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its own wrath and wanderings.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden

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