The original arrangement of this composition featured a singer with text by Henry Cazalis, although the piece was shortly thereafter reworked to replace the singer with a violin, which notably uses scordata tuning.
The original arrangement of this composition featured a singer with text by Henry Cazalis, although the piece was shortly thereafter reworked to replace the singer with a violin, which notably uses scordata tuning. Lemare transcribed this piece for pipe organ, and it received piano transcriptions from both Horowitz and Liszt. This piece opens with a harp playing D twelve times to signify the hour that the piece is supposed to take place, which then transitions into an E-flat and A tritone. Part of this piece is quoted in the composer's later work Carnival of the Animals to portray fossils. For ten points, identify this work for violin and orchestra which depicts a medieval superstition about dancing skeletons, and which was written by Camille Saint- Saens.
The original arrangement of this composition featured a singer with text by Henry Cazalis, although the piece was shortly thereafter reworked to replace the singer with a violin, which notably uses scordata tuning.
La {Danse Macabre} (also accept “{Dance of Death}”)