Purcell: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z 860

I think this song is just so beautifully epic and I don't normally listen to this kind of music.

you are absolutely correct.

It is so majestic, that it reminds me of the famous epitaph of Simonides:
Foreigner, go tell the Spartans that we lie here obedient to their commands.
ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι

Brilliant, I especially like the horns...

Graves are a waste of space. After you die, your spirit will leave your rotting corpse. Which way it goes depends upon your standing with Elohim.

Donate your body to Science. Cremate the rest, and give the urn to your kids to cry over, or whatever it is they do......

i want this for my funeral

@nickatina40 we all do man, we all do

Yeah Munichlady...the same for me!this song is...great...majestic...sad...

Beautifully said.

Dude... this is epic. Biblically epic. Simple, but epic.