Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875) is the name of opus 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The composition is based upon a poem by Henri Cazalis, on an old French superstition: Zig, zig, zig, Death in a cadence, Striking with his heel a tomb, Death at midnight plays a dance-tune, Zig, zig, zig, on his violin. The winter wind blows and the night is dark; Moans are heard in the linden trees. Through the gloom, white skeletons pass, Running and leaping in their shrouds. Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking, The bones of the dancers are heard to crack— But hist! of a sudden they quit the round, They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed. According to the ancient superstition, "Death" appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death has the power to call forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (represented by a solo violin with its E-string tuned to an E-flat in an example of scordatura tuning). His skeletons dance for him until the first break of dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year. The piece opens with a harp playing a single note, D, twelve times to signify the clock striking midnight, accompanied by soft chords from the string section. This then leads to the eerie E flat and A chords (also known as a tritone or the "Devils chord") played by a solo violin, representing death on his fiddle. After which the main theme is heard on a solo flute and is followed by a descending scale on the solo <b>…<b>

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25 thoughts on “Camille Saint-Saëns – Danse Macabre”

  3. pennydesouza
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    Thanks. Ha ha, I always think "Who are those fools that ask questions on YouTube before reading the description properly?". Looks like I walk among them…

  4. fgfk123
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    Remedios Varo, "Les Feuilles Mortes". It is in the description 🙂

  6. 詳細くりっく　宝くじ当選 当選金お譲りします
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    ◆◇◆◇◆いきなりの書き込み失礼します。お金にお困りの方、いらっしゃいますか？実は宝くじで100,000,000円当選したのですが、その使い道に困ってます…馬鹿みたいな話ですが事実です。単刀直入に申しますとこの当選金をどなたかにお譲りしたいと思ってます。既にお譲りが済んだ方もいますが、少額でのお譲りが多かったため結構な額が残ってます…本日中にお譲りする事も可能なので遠慮せず仰って下さい。出来る限りご希望の金額を、と考えております。もし、お受け取りになりたい方いましたら、サイト内ですと書き込みが削除されます場合が御座いますので、こちらの→【httｐ://473.jp】リンクより、スムーズにお話をすすめる事ができますので、どうぞお早めのご連絡をお待ちしております。◆◇◆◇◆

  7. Tara Christensen
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    Does anyone know which orchestra is performing this. The ones I’ve found on Itunes aren’t that good.

  11. KapiteinKropsla
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    In Holland there is an amusement park called "De Efteling" in the haunted mansion they play Danse Macabre, its really awesome even tho they shortened the original a bit.

  13. NDP1027Studios
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    @DistantMirrors Where did you get that picture and what is it called? I would like to get it and put it on the desktop of my laptop computer.

  14. superarchirecontrapr
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    Chiiiiiiiingoooonsisisisisimooooo alhuien sabe otras cansiones asi de buenas

  19. gtizzle101
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    There was a kid that did a great cover of this on guitar but I can’t find it, anyone know what video I’m talking about?

  20. AlphaKnight495
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    Holy crap, Im going to play this song currently for my schools concert. But this is like a time signature of 12/8 :O And mine is 4/4

  22. 詳細くりっく　宝くじ当選 当選金お譲りします
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    ◆◇◆◇◆いきなりの書き込み失礼します。お金にお困りの方、いらっしゃいますか？実は宝くじで100,000,000円当選したのですが、その使い道に困ってます…馬鹿みたいな話ですが事実です。単刀直入に申しますとこの当選金をどなたかにお譲りしたいと思ってます。既にお譲りが済んだ方もいますが、少額でのお譲りが多かったため結構な額が残ってます…本日中にお譲りする事も可能なので遠慮せず仰って下さい。出来る限りご希望の金額を、と考えております。もし、お受け取りになりたい方いましたら、サイト内ですと書き込みが削除されます場合が御座いますので、こちらの→【httｐ://473.jp】リンクより、スムーズにお話をすすめる事ができますので、どうぞお早めのご連絡をお待ちしております。◆◇◆◇◆

  23. TakimiRyumi
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    Played this in Wind Ensemble in high school. One of my absolute favorites!

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