Danse Macabre (Symphonic Poem). By Camille Saint-saens. Arranged By Gerhart Drijvers. For Concert Band and Optional Solo Violin. Grade 5. Score. Duration 7:00. [Spiral-bound] Camille Saint-Saëns

For the Danse Macabre, Saint-Saëns turned to the ´Dance of the Death´, which appears in various versions in the Art of the later Middle Ages. Saint-Saëns evokes (using the xylophone) the midnight cavorting of skeletons in a churchyard, interrupted by the first crowing of the cock announcing the dawn.

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