Difference between Laments and Dirge

LAMENTS vs DIRGE: NOUN

A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.
Synonyms Dirge, Requiem, Elegy, lament, threnody, coronach. The first three are primarily and almost uniformly suggested by the death of some person. A dirge or a requiem may be only music or may be a song. An elegy is a poem, which may or may not be sung. A requiem, being originally sung for the repose of the soul of a deceased person, retains a corresponding character when the music does not accompany words.
A funeral hymn; the funeral service as sung; hence, a song or tune expressing grief, lamentation, and mourning.
The Office of the Dead.
A mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work.
A slow, mournful musical composition.
A funeral hymn or lament.
A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

Complains, Bemoans, Coronach, Keen, Plaint, Requiem, Regret, Threnody, Deplore, Elegy, Dirge, Wail, Bewail, Lamentation, Bemoan

Lamentation, Postlude, Balladry, Doomy, Wail, Lullaby, Hymn, Melody, Melancholy, Ballad, Elegy, Coronach, Lament, Requiem, Threnody

Mourning, Mourn, Moans, Mourns, Keen, Plaint, Requiem, Regret, Threnody, Deplore, Elegy, Dirge, Wail, Bewail, Lamentation

Anthem, Lamentation, Postlude, Balladry, Doomy, Wail, Lullaby, Hymn, Melody, Melancholy, Ballad, Elegy, Lament, Requiem, Threnody

Their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward.
Individual Laments, songs of supplication, complaint, grief, or sorrow.
Ozzy, mixing ruthless rage with sorrowful laments towards heaven.
Hollywood, or laments the gentrification of black neighbourhoods.
Larry laments that Delta has a terrible reputation.
Yap laments: Local guidelines not against national prot.
My hart laments the errors of mine eie.
Julie laments, is a huge problem as well.
Bill Gates laments White House meddling with FDA.
Getty, Jack laments his cobbler addiction, Marshall laments another setback in quest for improved fitness and Joe.

Noisy, clangy, industrial, dirge rock propelled by an incessantly droney hum of a guitar rhythm.
Sheer Terror type of dirge before it goes off galloping down the fastcore highway.
Why did it sound like the drum roll of a funeral dirge.
The Thin Red Line, but far more primal ndash; whispers a dirge.
The MOOD MUSIC for this puzzle seems like a dirge.
Argive but wept for pity of the dirge they chaunted.
Behind Thrust and Dirge came a tall, dark Cybertronian.
Wish You Were Here chords sound like a dirge.
Advent Children, Crisis Core, Dirge of Cerberus, etc.
And now he goes back into the dirge.