Requiem

Noun

 * 1) A mass or other ceremony to honor and remember a dead person.
 * Requiem for a Heavyweight.
 * 1) A musical composition for such a mass.
 * 2) A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.

Coordinate terms

 * dirge, elegy, threnody – funeral songs

Related terms

 * requiem mass
 * requiescat

Thesaurus
anthem, burial service, cantata, canticle, chorale, church music, coronach, dead march, death knell, death song, deathwatch, dirge, doxology, elegy, epicedium, eulogy, exequies, extreme unction, funeral march, funeral oration, funeral rites, funeral song, gospel, gospel music, graveside oration, hymn, hymn-tune, hymnody, hymnology, introit, keen, knell, last duty, last honors, last offices, last rites, mass, monody, motet, muffled drums, obsequies, offertory, offertory sentence, oratorio, paean, passing bell, passion, prosodion, psalm, psalmody, recessional, requiem mass, sacred music, spiritual, the Divine Liturgy, the Liturgy, threnode, threnody, viaticum, wake, white spiritual