Danse Macabre - Musical Settings

Musical Settings

Musical examples include

• Mattasin oder Toden Tanz, 1598, by August Nörmiger
• Totentanz. Paraphrase on "Dies irae." by Franz Liszt, 1849, a set of variations based on the plainchant melody "Dies Irae".
• Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns, 1874
• Songs and Dances of Death, 1875–77, by Modest Mussorgsky
• Symphony No. 4, 2nd Movement, 1901, by Gustav Mahler
• Totentanz der Prinzipien, 1914, by Arnold Schoenberg
• The Green Table, 1932, ballet by Kurt Jooss
• "Scherzo (Dance of Death)," in Op. 14 Ballad of Heroes, 1939, by Benjamin Britten
• Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67, 4th movement, "Dance of Death," 1944, by Dmitri Shostakovich
• Der Kaiser von Atlantis, oder Die Tod-Verweigerung, 1944, by Viktor Ullmann and Peter Kien
• Poème macabre, 1963, composition for violin and piano by Eugen Suchoň with one part entitled "Danza macabre"
• The Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites, 1964, by John Fahey, includes the song "Dance of Death," a finger-style guitar solo in G minor tuning.
• Dance with Death, 1968, by Andrew Hill
• Black Angels, 1971, by George Crumb, with a danse macabre at the end of part one, "Departure."
• Steeleye Span recorded Shaking of the Sheets, a traditional song about dancing with death on their 1989 album Tempted and Tried.
• Danse Macabre, 1985, by Celtic Frost, in their Morbid Tales album
• Dance of Death, 2003, by Iron Maiden
• Cantabile, 2nd movement "Cortège & Danse Macabre" (based on the poem "Cortège funèbre" (with the subtitle "Danse Macabre")), 2009, by Frederik Magle
• Danse macabre, 2011, by Gregory Rose
• "Danza macabra", from String Quartet "Sadness in Glass" (2012) by George Peter Tingley: http://www.macjams.com/song/71571
• "The Origin of the Feces by Type O Negative. On the re-release of the album to replace the original cover. The cover was also made into the green color that became a staple of the band's album covers.
• La Grande Danse Macabre by Marduk.
• "Dance Macabre" by Decapitated from the album Winds of Creations (2001).