Head of the funeral procession : the bir carrier followed by the choir of Albs, Dobritsa, Rumania.

I have described elsewhere (J.C., Le feu vivant, pp. 340-412), piece after piece and with the support of musical notations like in operas, the women's lamentations, the songs of the priests and their acolytes, the superposition of voices and cries, horn and bell sounds on various tones.
However various they may be, these elements integrate four offices in a unique ceremony : that of a civic cult celebrated by the horn players and the local representatives of the englobing society; that of a religious cult governed by the orthodox Church and performed by the priest and the cantor; that of a domestic cult that women officiate and accomplish by taking care of the dead body and lamerntating; lastly, that of a local and customary cult in which take part the carriers of the fir, on the one hand, and the chor of old women preceding the horn player and the clergy in the procession, on the other hand.