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单词 requiem
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Definition of requiem in English:

requiem

noun ˈrɛkwɪɛmˈrɛkwɪəmˈrɛkwiəm
  • 1(especially in the Roman Catholic Church) a Mass for the repose of the souls of the dead.

    a requiem was held for the dead queen
    as modifier a requiem mass
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Classical composers would write a requiem mass, and the audience would instantly have a framework of life and death, God and man, to work within.
    • It's really a dark piece of work, pretty much driven by Mozart's guilt over his father's death; in a lot of ways, I think it prefigures his requiem mass; a big, black truckload of woe.
    • For example, the first movement, ‘Introitus,’ uses the opening movement to the requiem mass with its reference to ‘lux perpetua luceat eis.’
    • The title of one of Baudelaire's poems, ‘De profondis clamavi,’ refers to the requiem Mass so that this ceremony is certainly within his ken.
    • Those who have taken their own lives while of sound mind, however, would normally be denied a Christian burial and requiems.
    • Thus, as at all occasions in our family, happy or sad, Olga, Mrs Turner, Babushka and Nadeja congregated, in between the requiems, to arrange every minor detail of the funeral.
    • These minor foundations existed to sing masses for the souls of their benefactors; as such, they encouraged beliefs in purgatory and the merits of requiems, doctrines which Protestants denied.
    • Might this Bote be the shadowy messenger who came to Mozart's door, not long before the composer's death, to request a requiem mass?
    • Also, the apocalyptic vistas of the requiem mass were foreign to Poulenc's artistic temperament.
    Synonyms
    funeral poem, funeral song, burial hymn, lament, dirge, plaint, keening
    1. 1.1 A musical composition setting parts of a requiem Mass, or of a similar character.
      Fauré's Requiem
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The electronics are jarring, perhaps even misplaced, but one must remember that this piece is a requiem for a 16-year-old boy, not a 65-year-old man.
      • His first great success, The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, which was acclaimed at its Proms premiere in 1990, was a requiem for a Catholic victim of a Protestant witch-hunt.
      • Rieter subsequently published several of Brahms's works, most notably the German requiem, which was composed in part in 1866, while visiting Rieter in Winterthur.
      • In 1987 Clifton published Next: New Poems, most of which are constructed as ‘sorrow songs ‘or requiems.’
      • Let's hope that classical music in North America is not yet ready for a requiem!
      • This haunting requiem for both those murdered in a high school massacre, and for the killers themselves, is blessedly free of ironic distance or cheap stereotyping of adolescence.
      • We could easily have all requiems re-titled as ‘sad tunes from great guys’ or ‘farewell fantasies from fabulous figures’.
      • For the next forty (yes forty!) days, there are more requiems, prayers and recitals of psalms until there is a Divine Liturgy held, such as on the day of the funeral.
      • Structured as a musical requiem, the score, as well Brian Emrich's soundscape, envelopes the action, making strong use of the audio landscape.
      • You might also hear similarities to Duruflé's requiem, since the lines, mainly modal, share a family look with Gregorian chant.
      • Britten could not have had access to his earlier score when composing the War requiem some 20 years later, and it must remain a matter of conjecture whether the similarities are deliberate or just coincidental.
      • Normally, when performed by an orchestra and a full-sized chorus, this requiem is pretty imposing stuff, even if Brahms was careful to ensure that it remained both human and humane.
      • Verdi, of course, started with the ‘Libera me’ as his contribution to a collaborative requiem for Rossini.
      • Musical settings of the requiem may be very public (Berlioz's, for example), or almost painfully private.
      • The task of composing a unified ‘Dies irae’ made Poulenc shy from a full requiem.
      • A requiem written by Brahms on the death of his mother distils yearning, bereavement, knowledge that this world is transient - yet so, also, will be his grief.
      • The composer writes that ‘it is not a requiem, but an ode to a soul at play amidst birds and rainbow in the sky.’
      • His next project, to be unveiled at Salzburg this summer, is that most old-fashioned of musical forms, a requiem.
      • Right from a very young age, she was exposed to church music - masses, requiems by different composers.
      • ‘Ergh’ says the unfortunate sap listening to said requiem.
      Synonyms
      lament, dirge, elegy, funeral chant, funeral song, burial hymn, dead march, keen, plaint, knell
    2. 1.2 An act or token of remembrance.
      he designed the epic as a requiem for his wife
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I'd like to try to correct or balance this tendency by writing a sort of requiem for these Great Men or Dead White Males.
      • The performance artists who staged the requiem for communism in Berlin were well aware of the sexual politics that have attended the crisis in socialism over the past twenty years.
      • There is a haunting beauty to Esther Parada's ‘When the Bough Breaks,’ her potent multimedia requiem to the American elm, which has all but vanished from the urban landscape due to Dutch elm disease.
      • His latest book is a collection of his writings, which as you'd guess from its title, Jazz and Its Discontents, is almost a requiem for jazz.
      • Perhaps the emotion expressed here is in part a requiem for Jobim, the inventor of bossa, who died from cancer in his fifties.
      • Millennium Mambo is both a requiem for the past and, to paraphrase Vicky's narration, ‘a celebration of the new millennium.’
      • Some say the fallen tree began to shudder and sing a requiem for all the slaughtered, innocent multitudes.
      • The dream-like quality of the images evokes the past and sings a requiem for a child in a family.
      • The work was to become his requiem, and his suicide note.
      • This quartet featured a stunning, slashing, angry modern-dance dialogue between two dancers, then a requiem for fallen comrades.
      • Kim began her mask project in 1995 when she was searching for her own way of expressing a requiem for the thousands of people killed in the Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated Kobe.

Origin

Middle English: from Latin (first word of the Mass), accusative of requies 'rest'.

  • This is from Latin requies ‘rest’, the first word of the Mass for the Dead, said or sung for the repose of their souls: Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine ‘Grant them, O Lord, eternal rest’. The Latin word goes back to quietus ‘quiet’, which is the source of quit, requite (early 16th century), and tranquil (early 17th century) and, via the French for quiet, coy (Middle English).

 
 

Definition of requiem in US English:

requiem

(also requiem mass)
nounˈrekwēəmˈrɛkwiəm
  • 1(especially in the Roman Catholic Church) a Mass for the repose of the souls of the dead.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These minor foundations existed to sing masses for the souls of their benefactors; as such, they encouraged beliefs in purgatory and the merits of requiems, doctrines which Protestants denied.
    • Classical composers would write a requiem mass, and the audience would instantly have a framework of life and death, God and man, to work within.
    • Might this Bote be the shadowy messenger who came to Mozart's door, not long before the composer's death, to request a requiem mass?
    • Thus, as at all occasions in our family, happy or sad, Olga, Mrs Turner, Babushka and Nadeja congregated, in between the requiems, to arrange every minor detail of the funeral.
    • For example, the first movement, ‘Introitus,’ uses the opening movement to the requiem mass with its reference to ‘lux perpetua luceat eis.’
    • The title of one of Baudelaire's poems, ‘De profondis clamavi,’ refers to the requiem Mass so that this ceremony is certainly within his ken.
    • Those who have taken their own lives while of sound mind, however, would normally be denied a Christian burial and requiems.
    • It's really a dark piece of work, pretty much driven by Mozart's guilt over his father's death; in a lot of ways, I think it prefigures his requiem mass; a big, black truckload of woe.
    • Also, the apocalyptic vistas of the requiem mass were foreign to Poulenc's artistic temperament.
    Synonyms
    funeral poem, funeral song, burial hymn, lament, dirge, plaint, keening
    1. 1.1 A musical composition setting parts of a requiem Mass, or of a similar character.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A requiem written by Brahms on the death of his mother distils yearning, bereavement, knowledge that this world is transient - yet so, also, will be his grief.
      • Britten could not have had access to his earlier score when composing the War requiem some 20 years later, and it must remain a matter of conjecture whether the similarities are deliberate or just coincidental.
      • Rieter subsequently published several of Brahms's works, most notably the German requiem, which was composed in part in 1866, while visiting Rieter in Winterthur.
      • Normally, when performed by an orchestra and a full-sized chorus, this requiem is pretty imposing stuff, even if Brahms was careful to ensure that it remained both human and humane.
      • The electronics are jarring, perhaps even misplaced, but one must remember that this piece is a requiem for a 16-year-old boy, not a 65-year-old man.
      • Verdi, of course, started with the ‘Libera me’ as his contribution to a collaborative requiem for Rossini.
      • For the next forty (yes forty!) days, there are more requiems, prayers and recitals of psalms until there is a Divine Liturgy held, such as on the day of the funeral.
      • In 1987 Clifton published Next: New Poems, most of which are constructed as ‘sorrow songs ‘or requiems.’
      • The composer writes that ‘it is not a requiem, but an ode to a soul at play amidst birds and rainbow in the sky.’
      • His next project, to be unveiled at Salzburg this summer, is that most old-fashioned of musical forms, a requiem.
      • Right from a very young age, she was exposed to church music - masses, requiems by different composers.
      • This haunting requiem for both those murdered in a high school massacre, and for the killers themselves, is blessedly free of ironic distance or cheap stereotyping of adolescence.
      • We could easily have all requiems re-titled as ‘sad tunes from great guys’ or ‘farewell fantasies from fabulous figures’.
      • Structured as a musical requiem, the score, as well Brian Emrich's soundscape, envelopes the action, making strong use of the audio landscape.
      • Musical settings of the requiem may be very public (Berlioz's, for example), or almost painfully private.
      • ‘Ergh’ says the unfortunate sap listening to said requiem.
      • Let's hope that classical music in North America is not yet ready for a requiem!
      • You might also hear similarities to Duruflé's requiem, since the lines, mainly modal, share a family look with Gregorian chant.
      • His first great success, The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, which was acclaimed at its Proms premiere in 1990, was a requiem for a Catholic victim of a Protestant witch-hunt.
      • The task of composing a unified ‘Dies irae’ made Poulenc shy from a full requiem.
      Synonyms
      lament, dirge, elegy, funeral chant, funeral song, burial hymn, dead march, keen, plaint, knell
    2. 1.2 An act or token of remembrance.
      he designed the epic as a requiem for his wife
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There is a haunting beauty to Esther Parada's ‘When the Bough Breaks,’ her potent multimedia requiem to the American elm, which has all but vanished from the urban landscape due to Dutch elm disease.
      • The dream-like quality of the images evokes the past and sings a requiem for a child in a family.
      • The work was to become his requiem, and his suicide note.
      • This quartet featured a stunning, slashing, angry modern-dance dialogue between two dancers, then a requiem for fallen comrades.
      • The performance artists who staged the requiem for communism in Berlin were well aware of the sexual politics that have attended the crisis in socialism over the past twenty years.
      • Some say the fallen tree began to shudder and sing a requiem for all the slaughtered, innocent multitudes.
      • Perhaps the emotion expressed here is in part a requiem for Jobim, the inventor of bossa, who died from cancer in his fifties.
      • Kim began her mask project in 1995 when she was searching for her own way of expressing a requiem for the thousands of people killed in the Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated Kobe.
      • I'd like to try to correct or balance this tendency by writing a sort of requiem for these Great Men or Dead White Males.
      • Millennium Mambo is both a requiem for the past and, to paraphrase Vicky's narration, ‘a celebration of the new millennium.’
      • His latest book is a collection of his writings, which as you'd guess from its title, Jazz and Its Discontents, is almost a requiem for jazz.

Origin

Middle English: from Latin (first word of the Mass), accusative of requies ‘rest’.

 
 
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