The funeral rituals, the evocation of the death and all their linked representations are strongly related to the sound (hubbub), which presents an elaborate codification. It is precisely this “symbolic code” that we would like to explore here through an anthropological and historical analysis of the western medieval Christian world, in particular that in France, highlighting four major elements : the sound, the wind as an instrumental element, the “lame” aspect of some rhythms evocating the ritual limp, and then, among the many musical registers, the recurrent use of the low one and the descent into this register. Subsequently, we will show how these elements combine in some of the major works of this era.