What is the Genre of this Video Game music / what are similar songs?

Question

There is a particular musical piece from the video game Final Fantasy 6 called Phantom Train which has me mesmerized today. I would like to ask how the genre of this song might be called.

Link to a rendition on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJeOJ3zcs4E

To me personally the sound evokes a feeling of grandiose decadance combined with morbid melancholy. A kind of bitter-sweet symphony if you will.

Do you know any similar songs to this one?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This is a dirge

A dirge is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as would be appropriate for performance at a funeral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirge

The harpsichord figures give it a baroque sound.

The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the mid-18th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque

So what you have here is a baroque dirge or funeral march.

Examples:

• Purcell - Queen Mary's Funeral March
• J.H. Roman - King Frederick's Funeral March
• Mozart Requiem (technically classical, not baroque)

Here's a more recent song deliberately written in that same style:

• Ballad of the Harpsichord - Dirge

Answer 2

In the classical world:

Saint-Saens, Danse macabre

Gounod, Funeral March of a Marionette

Liszt, Totentanz

Berlioz, last two movements of Symphonie Fantastique