As heard aboard the RMS Titanic, here’s Felix Godin’s “Valse Septembre” (1909). Godin was actually a pseudonym for light music composer Henry Albert Brown. The musicians of the Titanic, of course, are legendary for having played as long as possible during the ship’s sinking, in an attempt to keep calm among the passengers. In a sense, they wound up performing their own requiem.

I Salonisti portrayed the ship’s band in the 1997 film “Titanic.”