Igor Stravinsky composed a work titled simply Cantata in 1951 – 52, which used stanzas from the 15th-century " Lyke-wake Dirge " as a narrative frame for other anonymous English lyrics, and later designated A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer ( 1961 ) as " a cantata for alto and tenor soli, speaker, chorus, and orchestra ".

Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII was released for the PlayStation 2 in January 2006, and its soundtrack, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack, was released a month later.

In Dirge of Cerberus, he aids the World Regenesis Organization in launching an attack on Deepground headquarters, and later in fighting Omega WEAPON.

Shalua is later encountered in Dirge of Cerberus, working as a scientist for the WRO, who she joined in her efforts to find Shelke, who, is now a member of Deepground's Tsviets.

Dirge appeared again later in the movie, being the first at Starscream's coronation to spot the incoming Galvatron and Cyclonus.

In an early episode of the season ( episode # 66, " Five Faces Of Darkness Part 1 ") he was shown to have been destroyed by Ultra Magnus, but Dirge can be seen in episode # 71, " The Killing Jar ", amongst other later episodes.

In one of those later episodes, " Ghost in the Machine ", Dirge and Thrust are among other Decepticons being punished by Galvatron for failing to stop a demoralizing assault by Starscream — now a ghost possessing the bodies of other Decepticons.

Dirge joined the Predacons under the command of Starscream, but later rejoined the Decepticons after Megatron's reappearance.

Dirge was embittered at both sides for abandoning him to die, but later calmed down after having a friendly discussion with the Autobot Barrel Roll. When explosions began to happen on the planet ( later discovered to be from excess energy ), Barrel Roll was killed and Dirge was nearly executed by Barrel Roll's commander Silverbolt who blamed Dirge for the death, when Wheeljack intervened.

The toy of Dirge was later recolored as Robots in Disguise Skyfire and as Robot Masters Wingstun.

The base figure used for Dirge was later redecoed as Universe Repugnus.

Dirge became a member of the elite Seekers under Aerospace Commander Starscream.

After the Great Shutdown ended, Dirge was reformatted in the form of an Earth-style jet, and became one of Shockwave's elite bodyguards.

Dirge became annoyed at Swindle's constant talking, and went off on his own only to discover Skydive ( A Decepticon Predator ) murdered with a Decepticon flag protruding from his chest.

GameSpot writer Greg Mueller regarded Vincent as one of " the more interesting characters from Final Fantasy VII ," and liked how Dirge of Cerberus was focused on him and explained his origins more clearly.

The poetry of Walt Whitman also had a profound effect on Holst, as it did with many of his contemporaries, and he set Whitman's words in " Dirge for Two Veterans " and The Mystic Trumpeter ( 1904 ).

He composed longer pieces on a Persian War theme, including Dirge for the Fallen at Thermopylae, Battle at Artemisium and Battle at Salamis but their genres are not clear from the fragmentary remains-the first was labelled by Diodorus Siculus as an encomium but it was probably a hymn and the second was characterized in the Suda as elegiac yet Priscian, in a comment on prosody, indicated that it was composed in lyric meter.

It featured a number of bands on " Mutha Records " including Chronic Sick, Public Disturbance, Fatal rage, The Worst, Dirge and other local bands-Mutha made " the Hot Dog House " in Asbury Park their home base.

" Dirge " was featured on a Levi's jeans commercial, as well as the second installment of the Blair Witch Project, and was used in the trailer for the 2006 film The Black Dahlia.

Roman Dirge ( born on ) is an artist and magician, and the creator of the Lenore comic-book series ; he currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

26 episodes of a Lenore Animation were created for Sony's website ScreenBlast, these are no longer available on Screenblast, but can now be seen on Dirge's site Spooky Land Roman Dirge wrote for his friend, and fellow Slave Labor Graphics artist Jhonen Vasquez's Invader ZIM, and on the back of the second Invader ZIM DVD it says " Made with 100 % more Dirge " with a picture of him on it, Invader Zim style.

In 1839, Tupper published A Modern Pyramid to commemorate a Septuagint of Worthies, being sonnets and essays on seventy famous men and women ; in 1841 An Author's Mind containing skeletons of thirty unpublished books ; in 1844, The Crock of Gold, The Twins, and Heart tales illustrative of social vices, and which passed through numerous editions ; in 1847, Probabilities, an Aid to Faith, giving a new view of Christian evidences ; A Thousand Lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, Lyrics, Ballads for the Times, Things to Come, A Dirge for Wellington, Church Ballads, White Slavery Ballads, American Ballads, Rifle Ballads, King Alfred, a patriotic play ; King Alfred's poems, translated from Anglo-Saxon into corresponding English metres.

She has written two Christmas-themed songs, " A Christmas Dirge " and " Take Me Away ," both of which are available on her web site.

The idea was for the film to focus on the characters of Cloud and Tifa in a similar way to how other titles from Compilation of Final Fantasy VII centered on certain characters ( for example, Before Crisis focuses on the Turks, Dirge of Cerberus focuses on Vincent, and Crisis Core focuses on Zack Fair ).

Diver and the Kid were able to ambush the Maximals, allowing Galvatron to gain the upper hand on Lio Convoy, but the Maximals were aided by Dirge and Thrust.

Vincent was chosen as the protagonist of Dirge of Cerberus due to his strong connections to the setting of Final Fantasy VII and the room available for expanding on his background.

' 108 ' in the anime series ' Tokko ' is the number of pieces in the Box of Dirge Chinese puzzle box created by alchemy as a doorway between the world of demons and this one.

* Jack Skellington's face made a cameo appearance on a doormat in the first volume of the graphic novel series Lenore created by Roman Dirge.

She has been the English counterpart of Atsuko Tanaka at least four times: both of them have played Jaguara in Wolf's Rain, Rosso the Crimson in Dirge of Cerberus-Final Fantasy VII -, Motoko Kusanagi in the Ghost in the Shell series, and Cassandra in Reign: The Conqueror.

Dirge is the name of several different fictional characters from the Transformers series.

Dirge appeared in episode 1 and 15 of the Japanese exclusive Headmasters series.

The name ' Dirge ' was revived for used by a Predacon in the Beast Wars Second toy line, a Japanese-exclusive series.

Due to the staff's desire to make Dirge a shooter, Vincent was also chosen because of his weaponry, while his transformations into different type of beasts in the original Final Fantasy VII was something the staff wanted to work into the gameplay.

The first pair he owns have gold rims around the lenses, while the ones he obtains during the second part of the Dirge arc have no rims.

The following year, Nippon Crown released a soundtrack album to correspond with the video game Dirge of Cerberus, while Square Enix launched a download-only collection of music from the multiplayer mode of the game, which was only released in Japan.

He met Roman Dirge, Rosearik Rikki Simons, and Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons at Alternative Press Expo in 1995.

* Nero the Sable, member of the fictional Tsviets of Deepground in Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII

He also appears in Advent Children and throughout Dirge of Cerberus, when he is a member of the World Regenesis Organization ( WRO ) and is playable for a single mission.

Azul returns in Dirge of Cerberus as a high-ranking member of Deepground.

Dirge appeared in the 1986 story and coloring book The Lost Treasure of Cybertron by Marvel Books.

Kitase explained that when development for Advent Children began, the team agreed that one title was not enough to cover the entire world of Final Fantasy VII, and thus Before Crisis, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII were conceived so as to embrace more aspects.

Thrust, Ramjet and Dirge are part of a team dubbed by Transformers fans as the " Coneheads " for the way their character models were drawn to make them visually distinct from the original Decepticon jets Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker despite their toys being modifications of the same mold used to create that original trio.