¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Requiems
1. requiem [n] - See also: requiem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Requiems
Literary usage of Requiems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1910)
"CHAPTER XVIII THE REQUIEM Works of Palestrina and Vittoria—Other Fine Masses for
the Dead—Five Modern requiems of Deathless Reputation by Mozart, Cherubini, ..."
2. Sketches of India by Moyle Sherer, Officer for fire-side travellers at-home (1824)
"It is now but a vast and grassy tomb, — and it seems as if its thin and gloomy
population of priests and friars were only spared to chaunt requiems for its ..."
3. Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: Or, The Muses Recreation. Containing Severall by Sir John Mennes, James Smith, Thomas Park, Edward Du Bois (1817)
"... 'bove the highest pole, Where angels sing sweet requiems to her soule, She
liv'da none-such, did a none-such dye, Ne'r none-such here her corps interred ..."
4. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"... and "L'Olimpiade"; four oratories, three cantatas, two requiems, much sacred
music, and 500 minor pieces. Cimbri (slm'brl), warlike people of ancient ..."
Other Resources:
Bulgarian