Definitions for "Dies Irae"
Keywords:  requiem, wrath, hymn, celano, irae
Latin, "Day of Wrath" -- a medieval Latin hymn about Judgment Day and a part of the Requiem Mass.
A Gregorian plainchant for the dead, the sequence from the Requiem Mass . The simple and very famous tune is often used by Romantic composers--Berlioz (in the last movement of the Fantastique, GP 83), Liszt, Rachmaninov, and many others--to evoke thoughts of death and the macabre.
the first words of a medieval Latin hymn describing the Last Judgment (literally `day of wrath')
Keywords:  choir, foul, mood, conductor, warning
a warning to the choir that the conductor is in a foul mood