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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] (denoting the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_for_the_Dead Office for the Dead]): from Latin ''dirige''! (imperative) ‘direct!,’ the first word of an antiphon (Psalm 5:8) used in the Latin Office for the Dead.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century]
''dirige'' (current contracted form is from c.1400), from Latin ''dirige'' "direct!" imperative of ''dirigere'' "to direct," probably from antiphon ''Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam'', "Direct, O Lord, my God, my way in thy [[sight]]," from Psalm v:9, which opened the Matins service in the ''Office of the Dead.'' Transferred sense of "any funeral song" is from c.1500.
==Definitions==
*1: a [[lament]] for the [[dead]], especially one forming part of a [[funeral]] rite.
*2: a mournful [[song]], piece of music, or [[poem]]: singers chanted ''dirges'' | figurative : the [[wind]] howled dirges around the chimney.
==Description==
A brief [[hymn]] or [[song]] of [[lamentation]] and [[grief]]; it was typically composed to be performed at a [[funeral]]. In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric_poetry lyric poetry], a dirge tends to be shorter and less meditative than an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegy elegy]. See Christina Rossetti’s “[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=180634 A Dirge]” and Sir Philip Sidney’s “[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=174435 Ring Out Your Bells].”
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[[Category: Religion]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] (denoting the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_for_the_Dead Office for the Dead]): from Latin ''dirige''! (imperative) ‘direct!,’ the first word of an antiphon (Psalm 5:8) used in the Latin Office for the Dead.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century]
''dirige'' (current contracted form is from c.1400), from Latin ''dirige'' "direct!" imperative of ''dirigere'' "to direct," probably from antiphon ''Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam'', "Direct, O Lord, my God, my way in thy [[sight]]," from Psalm v:9, which opened the Matins service in the ''Office of the Dead.'' Transferred sense of "any funeral song" is from c.1500.
==Definitions==
*1: a [[lament]] for the [[dead]], especially one forming part of a [[funeral]] rite.
*2: a mournful [[song]], piece of music, or [[poem]]: singers chanted ''dirges'' | figurative : the [[wind]] howled dirges around the chimney.
==Description==
A brief [[hymn]] or [[song]] of [[lamentation]] and [[grief]]; it was typically composed to be performed at a [[funeral]]. In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric_poetry lyric poetry], a dirge tends to be shorter and less meditative than an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegy elegy]. See Christina Rossetti’s “[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=180634 A Dirge]” and Sir Philip Sidney’s “[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=174435 Ring Out Your Bells].”
[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: Religion]]