"Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns) Danse macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It is in the key of G minor. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based on an old French superstition. In 1874, the composer expanded and reworked the piece into a tone poem, replacing the vocal line with a solo violin part. According to legend, ""Death"" appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death calls forth the dead from their"
"Rhapsodie Macabre Rhapsodie Macabre is a composition for piano and string quartet in one movement by Graham Waterhouse, written in 2011 as a homage to Franz Liszt. It was first performed at a Liszt festival of the Gasteig, Munich, with the composer playing the cello part. Waterhouse composed the work as the closing work of the 2011 Liszt Festival at the Gasteig, Munich, played in a concert of works by Liszt and Waterhouse. He combined elements of Liszt's music such as ""virtuosic piano writing"", ""characteristic harmonic colour through the piling up of similar intervals"", ""timbre as a structural device, delineating"
"Danse Macabre (Notke) Danse Macabre is a painting by Bernt Notke. The initial fragment of the original 30 metres (98.4 ft) wide painting (executed at the end of the 15th century) has been preserved and is currently displayed in St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn. The Dance of Death theme is often encountered in late medieval art and literature. One impetus for this was the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the middle of the 14th century. Skeletal figures personifying Death dance alternately to mortals, as a memento mori (reminder of earthly perishability). Mortals are ranked in a hierarchy, starting with the"
"and the Compass"", and ""Death and the Physician"". “Dance Macabre” a song put out by a band called Ghost in 2018. Danse Macabre The Danse Macabre (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance Macabre unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or a personification of death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and laborer. They were produced"
"""Fossils"" movement of ""The Carnival of the Animals"". ""Danse macabre"" is scored for an obbligato violin and an orchestra consisting of one piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in B, two bassoons; four horns in G and D, two trumpets in D, three trombones, one tuba; a percussion section that includes timpani, xylophone, bass drum, cymbals and triangle; one harp and strings. When ""Danse macabre"" was first performed it was not well received. The piece caused widespread consternation: the scholar Roger Nichols mentions adverse reaction to ""the deformed ""Dies irae"" plainsong"", the ""horrible screeching from solo violin"", the use"
"Danse Macabre The Danse Macabre (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance Macabre unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or a personification of death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and laborer. They were produced as mementos mori, to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain were the glories of earthly life."
"Danse Macabre (novel) Danse Macabre is the fourteenth book in the series of horror/mystery/erotica novels by Laurell K. Hamilton. Danse Macabre is French for Dance of Death. The phrase historically refers to a late-medieval allegory of the universality of death, in which Death personified summons people to the world beyond the grave despite their objections. Originally a dramatic performance, in the centuries since it has been represented in art, poetry, and music. The modern superstition is simply that ""Death"" appears at midnight every year on Halloween. He calls forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he"
"required to sing the A below the bass-clef (27 notes below the middle C). Instruments of special note: The use of a giraffe's thigh bone as a percussion instrument in the ""Cortège & Danse Macabre"". Cantabile (symphonic suite) Cantabile is a work composed from 2004 to 2009 by Frederik Magle. It consists of three symphonic poems (or movements) based on poems written by Henrik, the Prince Consort of Denmark published in his book Cantabile. The Cantabile suite was commissioned by the Danish Royal Family and the first movement was premiered in 2004. The second and third movements were premiered on"
"Tournemire and César Franck), Jean Langlais (1907–1991), includes it as a title in his collection ""Ten Pieces"" for organ (No. 9). A late orchestral work by the Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970) is entitled ""Epithalamion"". American John Harbison composed the four movement work ""Olympic Dances"", of which the second movement is entitled ""Epithalamion"", in 1996 under commission from the College Band Directors National Association. Eugene Migliaro Corporon and the North Texas Wind Symphony recorded the work on the ""Wind Dances"" album released in 2000 on the Klavier label (K-11084). In 2006 British composer John McCabe was commissioned by John Sell"
"La Grande Danse Macabre La Grande Danse Macabre is the seventh studio album by Swedish black metal band Marduk. It was recorded and mixed at The Abyss in December 2000 and released on March 5, 2001, by Regain Records. ""La Grande Danse Macabre"" is the last Marduk album with Fredrik Andersson on drums. The Century Media release has different cover art, one found on T-shirts. The album's title is French for ""The Great Dance of Death"". The title track ends with a quote from Johan Olof Wallins poem ""Angel of Death"". On ""La Grande Danse Macabre"", the theme is death."
"Joyeuse marche Joyeuse marche is a popular orchestra piece by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier. It is the second half of a pair of orchestral pieces (the other was ""Prélude pastoral"") first performed on 4 November 1888 in Angers, conducted by the composer. The ""Joyeuse marche"" is dedicated to Vincent d'Indy. The march went through several versions before arriving at the popular orchestral version known today. In September 1888 Chabrier wrote to his publisher that he would be orchestrating six piano pieces: four pieces from his piano suite ""Pièces pittoresques"" (which would become his ""Suite pastorale""), as well as ""La"
"one of the most-performed works of Paris opera. Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) was born in Paris and was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire when he was thirteen. When he finished the Conservatory, he became an organist at the church of Saint-Merri, and later at ""La Madeleine"". His opera, ""Samson et Dalila"" (1877), was in the grand romantic tradition, though the music was new and innovative. He also won fame in Paris for ""Danse Macabre"", the opera ""The Carnival of the Animals"" (1877), and his ""Symphonie No. 3 ""avec orgue"""" in C minor, op. 78 (1886). Société Nationale de Musique, Claude Debussy"
"orchestrated. The composer arranged the four movements of the ""Suite pastorale"" from the ten ""Pièces pittoresques"". Chabrier began an orchestration of ""Bourrée fantasque"" in 1891 (completed in 1994 by Robin Holloway) but his friend and champion Felix Mottl orchestrated it in 1898, proving popular; he did the same for "" Trois valses romantiques"" in 1900, and in 1917-18 Ravel arranged the ""Menuet pompeux"" from the ""Pièces pittoresques"". Chabrier's ebullient orchestral works have always been popular with the public and critics, but there is less agreement about his serious stage works, and in particular the influence of the music of Wagner."
"Le Grand Macabre Le Grand Macabre (1974–77, revised version 1996) is the only opera by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. The opera has two acts, and its libretto – based on the 1934 play ""La balade du grand macabre"" by Michel De Ghelderode – was written by Ligeti in collaboration with , director of the Stockholm puppet theatre. The original libretto was written in German as ""Der grosse Makaber"" but for the first production was translated into Swedish by Meschke under its current title . The opera has been performed also in English, French, Italian, Hungarian and Danish. Only a few"
"Dance Macabre (film) Dance Macabre is a 1992 horror film written and directed by Greydon Clark. The Dance Academy in Russia which is run by the crippled Madame Gordenko, has a new arrival of girl dancers. They are greeted by American dance instructor Anthony Wager and Olga. Among the new girls Anthony notices American, Jessica Anderson. Who resembles Anthony's deceased lover Svetlana, a ballet dancer who died when she and Anthony were in a Motorbike crash in-which only Anthony survived. During the first ballet class Jessica struggles. Claudine, Jessica's roommate offers to help her and the two sneak back into"
"Lugubre (ballet) Lugubre was a modern dance solo choreographed by Martha Graham to music by Alexander Scriabin. The piece was originally part of ""Five Poems"", a ballet divided into five solo sections: ""Fragilité"", ""Lugubre"", ""Poeme ailé"", ""Danse Languide"" and ""Désir"" (first performed in 1926). Each of the sections appears in various programs as individual solos. ""Five Poems"" premiered on October 16, 1927, at the Little Theatre in New York City. Other works on the program were ""Choral""; ""Adagio (from second Suite)""; ""Scherzo, Op. 16 No.2""; ""Tanzstück""; ""Deux Valses""; ""Danse""; ""Tanagra""; ""Esquisse Antique""; ""Lucrezia""; ""Alt-Wein""; ""La Cancion""; ""Ronde""; ""Two Poems of"
"bones, lying here bare, await yours."" The ""danse macabre"" is another well-known example of the ""memento mori"" theme, with its dancing depiction of the Grim Reaper carrying off rich and poor alike. This and similar depictions of Death decorated many European churches. ""Danse Macabre"", Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra written in 1874 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. Timepieces were formerly an apt reminder that your time on Earth grows shorter with each passing minute. Public clocks would be decorated with mottos such as ""ultima forsan"" (""perhaps the last"" [hour]) or ""vulnerant omnes, ultima necat"" (""they all wound,"
"Renard (1864-1910); Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891); Romain Rolland (1866-1944); Edmond Rostand (1868-1918); and Paul Verlaine (1844-1890). Paris was also the home of one of the greatest Russian writers of the period, Ivan Turgenev. Paris composers during the period had a major impact on European music, moving it away from romanticism toward impressionism in music and modernism. Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) was born in Paris and admitted to the Paris Conservatory when he was thirteen. When he finished the Conservatory, he became organist at the church of Saint-Merri, and later at La Madeleine. His most famous works included the ""Danse Macabre"", the opera"
"the dancing skeletons on late Roman sarcophagi and mural paintings at Cumae or Pompeii, and a false connection has been traced with ""The Triumph of Death"", attributed to Orcagna, in the Campo Santo at Pisa. The etymology of the word ""macabre"" is uncertain. According to Gaston Paris it first occurs in the form ""macabre"" in Jean le Fèvre's ""Respit de la mort"" (1376), ""Je fis de Macabré la danse"", and he takes this accented form to be the true one, and traces it in the name of the first painter of the subject. The more usual explanation is based on"
"Part of Merlin's travelling dance troupe. The critical reception of ""Danse Macabre"" has been mixed. Danse Macabre (novel) Danse Macabre is the fourteenth book in the series of horror/mystery/erotica novels by Laurell K. Hamilton. Danse Macabre is French for Dance of Death. The phrase historically refers to a late-medieval allegory of the universality of death, in which Death personified summons people to the world beyond the grave despite their objections. Originally a dramatic performance, in the centuries since it has been represented in art, poetry, and music. The modern superstition is simply that ""Death"" appears at midnight every year on"
"Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), ""Danse macabre"" (1874), the opera ""Samson and Delilah"" (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third (""Organ"") Symphony (1886) and ""The Carnival of the Animals"" (1886). Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri,"
"España (Chabrier) España, rhapsody for orchestra ( or ""Rapsodie España"") is the most famous orchestral composition by French composer Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894). Written in 1883 after a trip to Spain, it was dedicated to the conductor Charles Lamoureux, who conducted the first public performance on 4 November 1883, at the Théâtre du Château d’Eau for the Société des Nouveaux Concerts in Paris. From July to December 1882 Chabrier and his wife toured Spain, taking in San Sebastián, Burgos, Toledo, Sevilla, Granada, Málaga, Cádiz, Cordoba, Valencia, Zaragoza and Barcelona. His letters written during his travels are full of good humour, keen"
"and ""Four Insincerities"". Lugubre (ballet) Lugubre was a modern dance solo choreographed by Martha Graham to music by Alexander Scriabin. The piece was originally part of ""Five Poems"", a ballet divided into five solo sections: ""Fragilité"", ""Lugubre"", ""Poeme ailé"", ""Danse Languide"" and ""Désir"" (first performed in 1926). Each of the sections appears in various programs as individual solos. ""Five Poems"" premiered on October 16, 1927, at the Little Theatre in New York City. Other works on the program were ""Choral""; ""Adagio (from second Suite)""; ""Scherzo, Op. 16 No.2""; ""Tanzstück""; ""Deux Valses""; ""Danse""; ""Tanagra""; ""Esquisse Antique""; ""Lucrezia""; ""Alt-Wein""; ""La Cancion""; ""Ronde"";"
"Concerto funebre Concerto funebre (""Funereal Concerto"") is a musical composition for violin soloist and string orchestra by the German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann. Written in 1939 and substantially revised in 1959, it is by far Hartmann's best known work, especially noted for its lyrical final movement. It is scored for string orchestra only. The title is Italian. Unlike many of his works, which the composer did not consider completed before they had been substantially reworked as part of an ongoing process after the end of World War II, he completed the ""Concerto funebre"" in a relatively short timespan, principally in"
"City. ""Danse Macabre"" was a program of four plays of psychological and physical terror, one humorous work and a dance, in keeping with Grand Guignol's programming history. The run ended October 27 at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. The playwrights were Dave deChristopher, Jack Feldstein, Dylan Guy, Pamela Scott and Joel Trinidad. Choreographer and Director, Shela Xoregos. In November 2014, 86 years after the last show of Alfredo Sainati's ""La Compagnia del Grand-Guignol"", founded in 1908 and which had been the only example of Grand Guignol in Italy, the Convivio d'Arte Company presented in Milan ""Grand Guignol de Milan:"
"tambourine); 2 harps. Metronome marking: = 80. Performances generally last between 6 and 6½ minutes. Chabrier made two transcriptions of ""España"": Parts of ""España"" feature prominently in Émile Waldteufel's waltz ""España"" of 1886. It is also the basis of the melody of the 1956 American popular song ""Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)"" by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning. In 1961 Roland Petit created a ballet entitled ""España"" using the score of Emmanuel Chabrier; costumes were by Yves Saint Laurent. España (Chabrier) España, rhapsody for orchestra ( or ""Rapsodie España"") is the most famous orchestral composition by French composer Emmanuel Chabrier"
"played several concerts in the Munich area, for example on 20 March 2012 at the Hochschule für Musik München, combining works of Waterhouse, including Three Pieces for Solo Cello, with piano quartets of Beethoven. They performed the premiere in the UK on 9 October 2012 at Highgate School, London, the composer's former school, in a concert dedicated to works by Waterhouse. The reviewer termed the work a mini-piano concerto. Rhapsodie Macabre Rhapsodie Macabre is a composition for piano and string quartet in one movement by Graham Waterhouse, written in 2011 as a homage to Franz Liszt. It was first performed"
"composed works for orchestra, including ""Tapiola Sunrise"", ""Birthday Ode for Aaron Copland"", ""Cristalflood"" and ""Thambapani"", as well as for chorus. His ""Missa Sancta Pauli Apostoli"" won the liturgical section of the British Composer Awards 2006 . His large-scale music-theatre work,""Danse macabre"", was premiered in Tallinn, Estonia in October 2011. He is a specialist in the music of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, having completed his Violin Concerto, which he recorded on the Naxos label with Aleksandr Trostiansky and the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked closely with composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Steve Reich, Christian Wolff and Stephen Montague, and"
"La valse La valse, ""poème chorégraphique pour orchestre"" (a choreographic poem for orchestra), is a work written by Maurice Ravel between February 1919 and 1920; it was first performed on 12 December 1920 in Paris. It was conceived as a ballet but is now more often heard as a concert work. The work has been described as a tribute to the waltz, and the composer George Benjamin, in his analysis of ""La valse"", summarized the ethos of the work: Whether or not it was intended as a metaphor for the predicament of European civilization in the aftermath of the Great"
"Danse Macabre (book) Danse Macabre is a 1981 non-fiction book by Stephen King, about horror fiction in print, TV, radio, film and comics, and the influence of contemporary societal fears and anxieties on the genre. It was republished on February 23, 2010 with an additional new essay entitled """"What's Scary"""". ""Danse Macabre"" examines the various influences on King's own writing, and important genre texts of the 19th and 20th centuries. ""Danse Macabre"" explores the history of the genre as far back as the Victorian era, but primarily focuses on the 1950s to the 1970s (roughly the era covering King's own"
"6. Hurray, hurray! My wife is dead, hurray!<br> 7. Nekrotzar's Entrance<br> 8. Woe! Ooh! For the day of wrath<br> 9. There's no need to fear<br> 10. Up! – Drink! – Up!<br> 11. Galimatias: Hmm! It's delicious<br> 12. Where am I? What time is it?<br> Interlude<br> 13. Scene Four: Ghost Astradamors, are you dead?<br> 14. Mirror Canon<br> 15. Finale. Passacaglia: Ah, it was good Le Grand Macabre Le Grand Macabre (1974–77, revised version 1996) is the only opera by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. The opera has two acts, and its libretto – based on the 1934 play ""La balade du grand"
"Boléro Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition. Before ""Boléro"", Ravel had composed large-scale ballets (such as ""Daphnis et Chloé"", composed for the Ballets Russes 1909–1912), suites for the ballet (such as the second orchestral version of ""Ma mère l'oye"", 1912), and one-movement dance pieces (such as ""La valse"", 1906–1920). Apart from such compositions intended for a staged dance performance, Ravel had demonstrated an interest in composing re-styled dances,"
"The Miraculous Mandarin The Miraculous Mandarin (; ) Op. 19, Sz. 73 (BB 82), is a one act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók between 1918–1924, and based on the story by Melchior Lengyel. Premiered November 27, 1926 in Cologne, Germany, it caused a scandal and was subsequently banned on moral grounds. Although more successful at its Prague premiere, it was generally performed during the rest of Bartók's life in the form of a concert suite, which preserves about two-thirds of the original pantomime's music. After an orchestral introduction depicting the chaos of the big city, the action begins in"