dead march
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As a dead march nothing like it had ever been attempted before.
From Time Magazine Archive
There he was draped with black crepe and, while the crowd stood silent and a band began a dead march, the gelding walked slowly around the full circuit of the track.
From Time Magazine Archive
For three and a half hours no character walks faster than a dead march or speaks faster than five words a minute.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pipers of the Forty-Second and Ninety-Third, with muffled drums, played The Flowers of the Forest as a dead march.
From Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude by William Forbes-Mitchell
Standing before his door, he watched the procession as it passed up the street, preceded by the band playing a dead march, sometimes interrupted by a whining chant or dirge.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
