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 orc
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}”)