“Catherine hummed and sang a hymn that faded quickly from a cheery ode to a mournful dirge.”

“He used to recite dirge songs and had established a unique status for his touching elegiac tone.”

“The funeral procession parades slowly through the streets, followed by a band playing a mournful dirge as it moves to the cemetery.”

“To commemorate his death anniversary Salar Jung Museum has organised a special exhibition of manuscripts, dirges and elegies.”

“The two duets with Vedder are the strongest of too many funereally morose dirges that bind the album.”

“In 1982, he released Nebraska, a masterpiece of hush-toned dirges about murderers and chicken-man killers and accidentally invented lo-fi.”