tombeau

Japanese: tombeau
tombeau

…It has a slower tempo than a normal march to match the pace of a funeral procession, and many works are in minor keys to express a solemn mood. Its origins date back to the French keyboard music tombeau, a mourning piece for the dead, and an early example can be found in Handel's oratorio Saul (1738) March of the Dead. This is still a work in a major key, but the minor key funeral march was established by Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 26, third movement Funeral March for a Hero, and the second movement of his Third Symphony. …

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Japanese:

…通常の行進曲よりも,葬列の歩調に合わせるためにゆっくりしたテンポをもち,おごそかな気分を表すため短調の作品が多い。起源はフランス鍵盤音楽の死者を悼む作品〈トンボーtombeau〉にさかのぼり,ヘンデルのオラトリオ《サウルSaul》(1738)の《死者の行進》に初期の例が見られる。これはまだ長調の作品であるが,短調の葬送行進曲はベートーベンの《ピアノ・ソナタ》作品26第3楽章《ある英雄の死を悼む葬送行進曲》と《第3交響曲》第2楽章によって確立された。…

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