Written as festive music to celebrate the end of the school year, it was not for the ages.

Even among other festive music written by Bach, this work's scoring for four trumpets is unusual.

The children scrub and decorate to the festive music but are ordered to take down the decorations after the rich folk leave.

There is a distant sound of festive music, and the King admonishes him to hold up his head.

Maria Lopez stood alongside her stall, playing loud, festive music, an odd sound in this time of national mourning.

It is also the name given to outdoor bars or cellars with festive music during ferias.

Do you not hear the festive music?

Therefore do I sigh amid this festive music.

Once, it is said, they were seen following a flower-decked corpse, with merriment and festive music, to his grave.