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Danse MacabreCamille Saint-
Saens
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Danse Macabre• ‘Danse Macabre’ is a piece of
programme music written in the late 1800s by the French composer Camille Saint-Saens.
• This work is based upon a poem by the Frenchman Henri Cazalis. The music tells the story of gruesome happenings in the churchyard of a small French village on the night of Halloween.
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Listen to the poem
Zig-a-zig-a-zig, It’s the rhythm of death…
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Saint-Saens• Twelve strokes of
midnight
• Tapping the tombstones
• Death tuning his violin
• The skeletons Dancing
• Zig-a-zig-a-zig, on the violin
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The twelve strokes of midnight are the first sounds we hear played on the harp and the violin.
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The mysterious cloaked figure of Death appears. He drums his heels on the tombstones. This is represented by two types of stringed instruments.
The cellos and double-basses.
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Methods of PlayingArco – Using the bow
Pizzicato – Plucking the strings
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Death tunes his violin, urging the skeletons to rise from their graves. The skeletons come out and begin to dance.
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There are 3 beats in a bar. It is firstheard on the flute and then on theviolins.
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Death plays the main waltz tune on his violin.
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The waltz gets faster as the skeletons’ dancing gets more
and more frantic.
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The wind rustling through the graveyard trees is
suggested by two families of instruments
The woodwind and string families.
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The music becomes wilder and more frantic with the skeletons dancing into a
frenzy until…
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Silence
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The oboe signifies the cock-crow and the first Light of dawn. The skeletons scatter and vanish.
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There is a short reminder of Death’s melancholy violin tune before he too disappears…
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Until next Hallowe’en…
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Flat b
Flat = lower to the left
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Sharp #
Sharp = raise to the right
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BUT… Sometimes a note can have 2 names, we call
this an enharmonic note. So…Eb and D# make
the same sound
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Line 2 of Danse Macabre
D E G
F# E D
E -------- E F#
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