Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre is a tone poem composed in 1874 depicting a Halloween night procession of the dead and souls of the damned. It uses a recurring motif representing the metronomic sound of a single violin playing accompanying a danse macabre, or "dance of death." The piece gradually increases in intensity before ending quietly, portraying the souls returning to their graves at the break of dawn.
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Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre is a tone poem composed in 1874 depicting a Halloween night procession of the dead and souls of the damned. It uses a recurring motif representing the metronomic sound of a single violin playing accompanying a danse macabre, or "dance of death." The piece gradually increases in intensity before ending quietly, portraying the souls returning to their graves at the break of dawn.
Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre is a tone poem composed in 1874 depicting a Halloween night procession of the dead and souls of the damned. It uses a recurring motif representing the metronomic sound of a single violin playing accompanying a danse macabre, or "dance of death." The piece gradually increases in intensity before ending quietly, portraying the souls returning to their graves at the break of dawn.