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danse macabre

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danse macabre: see Death, Dance of Death, Dance of, or danse macabre (däns məkä`brə, –bər, dăns)
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danse macabre
Dance of Death; procession of all on their way to the grave. [Art: Osborne, 299–300, 677]
See : Death

Danse Macabre
Saint-Saëns’ musical depiction of a dance of the dead. [Music Hist.: Thompson, 1906]
See : Horror

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Gounod had conducted the Funeral March of a Marionnette; Reyer, his beautiful overture to Siguar; Saint Saens, the Danse Macabre and a Reverie Orientale; Massenet, an unpublished Hungarian march; Guiraud, his Carnaval; Delibes, the Valse Lente from Sylvia and the Pizzicati from Coppelia.
 
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