Historical clue formulations

• Somber song — 2022-03-10
• Sad song — 2021-02-06
• Some somber music — 2020-07-26
• Expression of grief — 2018-06-15
• Song of mourning — 2017-03-26
• Strains with sadness — 2016-01-07
• Bagpipe music, maybe — 2014-01-09
• Slow march, maybe — 2013-04-27
• Passing notes? — 2010-05-22
• Elegiac music — 2010-04-22
• Threnody — 2009-09-06
• Doleful air — 2008-03-20
• Mournful song — 2006-08-29
• Somber song — 2004-09-15
• "O Captain! My Captain!," e.g. — 2004-01-02
• Sad song — 2003-02-24
• Plaintive piece — 2002-06-08
• Sad song — 2001-10-12
• Dreary sound — 2000-02-20
• Sad music — 1998-08-02
• Gloomy tune — 1996-12-11
• Song from "Cymbeline" — 1996-04-28
• Mournful tune — 1995-05-01
• Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break," e.g. — 1995-02-16
• Lament for the dead — 1994-08-31
• Somber tune — 1994-08-22