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DANSE MACABRE

DANSE MACABRE

 
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Printed Edition
Composer:Saint-Saens, Camille
Instrumentation:2fl. fl+picc. afl. bfl.
Publisher Ref:FC372

Price: £26.00
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Arranger:Hinze, Gudrun
Publisher:Alry Publications
ISMN:M302113041
ISBN:none specified
The Danse Macabre was originally composed in 1872 for voice and piano. Two years later, Camille Saint-Sa''ns arranged the song for orchestra. The human voice was 'replaced' here by the solo violin, whose highest string was 'wrongly' tuned a half step lower. Instead of the perfect fifth A-E, the violin is now tuned to the devil''s interval, A-E-flat, the 'diabolus in musica. In this arrangement, the devil plays on a Schnarrkopf Flute (buzzing headjoint) instead of an out-of-tune violin. The midnight ringing of the bell at the cemetery is sounded by the bass flute, the graves open up, and the skeletons of the dead must dance to the melody of the devil''s waltz until the cock crows at dawn (here portrayed by the piccolo), bringing an end to the nocturnal shadow display.

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