Difference between Requiem and Dirge

REQUIEM vs DIRGE: NOUN

A musical setting for a Mass celebrating the dead
A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
A mass for a deceased person.
A musical composition for such a mass.
A hymn, composition, or service for the dead.
In the Roman Catholic Church, the mass for the dead.
A musical setting of the mass for the dead.
Hence, in popular usage, a musical service or hymn for the dead. Compare the popular use of dirge.
Rest; quiet; peace.
Synonyms Dirge, Elegy, etc. See dirge.
A Mass celebrated for the dead
Any grand musical composition, performed in honor of a deceased person.
A mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.
A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.
A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul.

A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
A funeral hymn or lament.
A slow, mournful musical composition.
A mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work.
The Office of the Dead.
A funeral hymn; the funeral service as sung; hence, a song or tune expressing grief, lamentation, and mourning.
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 piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.

Concerto, Te deum, Oratorio, Hymn, Agnus dei, Motet, Cantata, Danse macabre, Symphonic poem, Postlude, Elegy, Coronach, Lament, Dirge, Threnody

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

Sanctus, Concerto, Te deum, Oratorio, Hymn, Agnus dei, Motet, Cantata, Danse macabre, Symphonic poem, Postlude, Elegy, Lament, Dirge, Threnody

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

Please note change of Time for Requiem mass.
Pallbearers, gold reins, requiem mass, firing a volley.
Symphony Series Brass and Requiem Light Symphonic Choir.
Requiem Mass, on Monday, July 19, at 11am.
Tavener, John, Akhmatova Requiem; Six Russian Folk Songs.
Future orchestral engagements include Verdi's Messa da requiem with the Toronto Symphony and Britten's War Requiem with Hamburg Symphoniker.
A New Requiem is much more than just a new adaptation of Mozart's Requiem.
If you use a requiem arrow on it, it will turn into SCOVA REQUIEM.
The Kuva Lich is your newest adversary in Warframe and you cannot kill it without Requiem Mods from Requiem Relics.
Predator: Requiem: Requiem: Requiem is set in the Alien and Predator movies in and.

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.