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Danse Macabre
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is program music? | Music that tells a story |
| Who wrote "Danse Macabre?" | Camille Saint-Saëns |
| Where and when does the story take place? | The cemetery on Val Porgus Nach at Midnight. |
| What instruments help to tell the story? | the harp, violin, xylophone, timpani, oboe |
| What does the harp represent? | the clock striking 12 |
| what does the violin represent? | the fiddler calling the skeletons to come |
| what does the xylophone represent? | bones of the skeletons clicking |
| what does the timpani represent? | the thunder |
| what does the oboe represent | the rooster crowing |
| What does Danse Macabre mean? | Bizarre Dance Eerie Dance |
| What inspired Saint-Saëns to write Danse Macabre? | The poem Danse Macabre by Henri Cazalis |