What is the form of Danse Macabre?

dance begins with a jiglike melody play by the flute, then by the violins, sounds like a waltz.

Their transparent texture of simple two- and three-part keyboard writing has one foot in the imitative counterpoint of the Baroque while anticipating the Classical era of Haydn and Mozart in their clarity of phrase structure and harmonic simplicity.

Danse macabre is a very sad song by Camille Saint-Saëns with a tempo of 115 BPM.

dance of death, also called danse macabre, medieval allegorical concept of the all-conquering and equalizing power of death, expressed in the drama, poetry, music, and visual arts of western Europe mainly in the late Middle Ages.

Camille Saint-Saëns (born October 9, 1835, Paris, France — died December 16, 1921, Algiers [Algeria]), was a composer chiefly remembered for his symphonic poems — the first of that genre to be written by a Frenchman — and for his opera Samson et Dalila.

It’s not especially challenging, perhaps somewhere around Grade 7 in standard.

‘Danse Macabre’ is based on the following peom Zig-a-zig-a-zig – it’s the rhythm of death! His heels tap the tomb-stones as he tunes his violin. Zig-a-zig-a-zig on his violin.

Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was a Romantic era pianist. The piece itself is based on an old French myth about Death. …

According to legend, Death appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death calls forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (here represented by a solo violin). His skeletons dance for him until the rooster crows at dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.

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Danse macabre is one of four tone poems Saint-Saëns composed in the 1870s, all inspired to some degree by examples from Franz Liszt (whose own Totentanz dates from 1849) and exploring both Liszt’s thematic transformation concept and novel instrumentation.

The French term danse macabre may derive from the Latin Chorea Machabæorum, literally “dance of the Maccabees.” In 2 Maccabees, a deuterocanonical book of the Bible, the grim martyrdom of a mother and her seven sons is described and was a well-known mediaeval subject.

Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre, Op. 40, is based on the French legend that Death packs a fiddle and comes to play at midnight on Halloween, causing the skeletons in the cemetery to crawl out of the ground for their annual graveyard dance party.

After the death of his children and collapse of his marriage, Saint-Saëns increasingly found a surrogate family in Fauré and his wife, Marie, and their two sons, to whom he was a much-loved honorary uncle.

He married Justyna Krzyżanowska, a poor relative of the Skarbeks, one of the families for whom he worked. Chopin was baptised in the same church where his parents had married, in Brochów. His eighteen-year-old godfather, for whom he was named, was Fryderyk Skarbek, a pupil of Nicolas Chopin.

This is Homophonic texture and specifically it is melody with accompaniment.

In Saint-Saëns’ evocative setting, the solo violin represents the devil who is playing his fiddle for the dance. In an inside musical joke, the violin top string is purposely mistuned down a half step to a tritone, also known as the “devil’s interval,” as a part of the soloist’s challenge.

In “Danse Macabre,” Saint-Saëns tells a story so intricately, using the xylophone as a representation for skeleton bones, twelve plucked notes on a harp to symbolize the stroke of midnight, and the prevalence of that most taboo of intervals, the tritone.

According to legend, Death appears at midnight on Halloween and calls to the dead to dance for him whilst he plays the fiddle – which is represented by Saint-Saëns’ detuned solo violin. The story follows the skeleton’s dancing until dawn breaks and the graves are filled again for another year.

The piece briefly appears in the 1993 western film Tombstone. The piece is used for the 1999 Disney’s animated short Hansel and Gretel. Which later appeared in 2002 Disney’s direct-to-video animated film Mickey’s House of Villains.

Different instruments represent different characters — the violin is the Devil, the oboe is a crow, the xylophone is rattling bones. Danse Macabre is based on an old medieval allegory about the “dance of death” which was essentially a “dance” that everyone knew because everyone was going to die one day.

Danse macabre, the third of Saint-Saëns’s four symphonic poems, was premiered in 1874. The broad waltz theme in the Danse macabre may be recognized as a variation on the Dies Irae, the ancient liturgical chant for the dead. … Saint-Saëns adapted it from one of his songs for voice and piano.

Danse Macabre by Kevin MacLeod (Royalty free music)

Saint-Saëns wrote Danse Macabre, which is technically a tone poem—a form he rarely worked in—140 years ago, in 1874.

noun. : ballet that adheres to traditional rules : classical ballet.

The Dance of Death (or Danse Macabre) is an allegorical confrontation of the living with death. It is both a literary and a visual theme that aims to remind readers and viewers of their own mortality by presenting a range of social representatives who are summoned to die.