Christians were moved by the sight of the Infant Jesus playing on his mother's knee; their hearts were touched by the Piet; and patron saints reassured them by their presence. But, all the while, the danse macabre urged them not to forget the end of all earthly things.[2]
Some plague art contains gruesome imagery that was directly influenced by the mortality of the plague or by the medieval fascination with the macabre and awareness of death that were augmented by the plague. Some plague art documents psychosocial responses to the fear that plague aroused in its victims. Other plague art is of a subject that directly responds to people's reliance on religion to give them hope.[7]
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There is one danse macabre text devoted entirely to women: The Danse Macabre of Women. This work survives in five manuscripts, and two printed editions. In it, 36 women of various ages, in Paris, are called from their daily lives and occupations to join the Dance with Death. An English translation of the French manuscript was published by Ann Tukey Harrison in 1994.[26]
However, the troubled times of the Late Middle Ages led to a new attitude towards death. People had mixed feelings of fear and fascination for macabre subjects. In this context, artists depicted the most dreadful and morbid images of skeletons and people dancing with decaying corpses, sometimes eaten by worms. They developed a new way of representing the allegory of death: the Danse Macabre.
I am attempting to learn the violin part of the Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens and play it with my friend pianist. After I looked through the piece a little and listened to some recordings, I have a few questions and I'm wondering if you could answer them.1. Is my skill level appropriate to play this piece?I have been playing the violin for about 6-7 years, and I finished the Grade 7 RCM exam a few months ago. Would I be able to play this piece with some degree of mastery, or is the piece something to consider when I'm more experienced?2. E flat and A double stopFor this note, should the fingering be 1 and 2 on the A and D string respectively, or something else?3. largamente passage(or bar 50 or that part with the rich vibrato)Should I play this on the 4th position?
If you were wondering why I don't just ask my teacher, it's because we're working on another piece(Bach) and he might not be pleased if I suddenly show a new piece(I swear I'm practicing my Bach too).
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joel quiveySeptember 24, 2018, 12:48 PM -2) In the orchestral version that Eb-A is scordatura, the E string tuned down to Eb. Some concertmasters will use 2 violins in the performance, trading off. It is the tritone, symbolic of the "devil in music". Or transpose all the E string notes up a half-step? (no thanks). When I did it I faked it, first finger on D#(Eb), second finger on A, with the vibrato turned off.
Anthony WSeptember 24, 2018, 12:49 PM you're supposed tune the e string down a half step to an e flat. that way, you can just play the double on open strings.
Anthony WSeptember 24, 2018, 12:54 PM and are you planning on playing the solo violin and 1st violin part? because the solo violin part is pretty simple and just the solo line doesn't get that much notes compared to the 1st violins ( -PMLP05008-violin_solo2.pdf) If you're only attempting the solo violin part alone, it's probably easier than the bach you are working on. if you are planning on playing both the 1st and solo violin parts, you might not be able to play it if you're still working on bach (concertos) as your main piece. of course, if you're working on a bach solo violin piece, you could probably play it (danse macabre).
Mary Ellen GoreeSeptember 24, 2018, 12:59 PM To answer your third question, yes, that part is played up in position (you could do it in 4th; I prefer to vibrate the top note with 3rd finger rather than 4th).
jean dubuissonSeptember 24, 2018, 2:54 PM Anthony: OP is talking about the version for violin and piano. I think there it is fine to play that without scordatura, so indeed as Sejune already found out, second and first finger.I have a question about the orchestral version. That version actually features a solo violin, which plays very little, i.e., pauses for most of the time. When the concertmaster plays the solo part, does he just take a rest in between, with the associate concertmaster actually playing the role of concertmaster? Or, like Joel says, are they supposed to play both the solo and the 1st violin parts? googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1445120547957-0'); }); This discussion has been archived and is no longer accepting responses.
The ravages of plague epidemics caused great fear and contributed significantly to the rise of a whole series of new and macabre art forms, including Triumphs of Death (large paintings in which a personification of Death reaps masses of people), Artes Moriendi (illustrated treatises on how to die properly) and so-called Dances of Death (Huizinga 1924; Kurtz 1934; Clark 1950; Meiss 1951; Aris 1977). It is commonly thought that the creation of Dances of Death followed the spread of the plague (Brossolet 1968; Schadewaldt 1991; Corvisier 1999). Dances of Death were artistic expressions of human mortality, executed either monumentally (mainly as a wall painting) or graphically (in the form of prints or books). They depict a metaphorical encounter between Death and representatives of human society in their last moments of earthly life. Death invites the dying to his dance and at the same time addresses them about their personal sins (Fig. 1). The basis of this Memento mori is the Christian idea of the spiritual equality of all mankind before Death. Paradoxically, to convey this message the backbone of the iconography of the Dance of Death is a representation of social inequality, the so-called Stndereihe, i.e. a depiction of the rigidly vertical social hierarchy which was believed to be ordained by God (Oexle 1988). Starting with Pope and Emperor all social positions would be represented, through Bishop and Squire, Usurer and Physician, all the way down to Clerk and Hermit, Jew and Turk. Each of these social positions was attributed its own typical sins, which were often sharply criticized. As a result, and because of the overrepresentation of the upper social classes, some of these Dances of Death read like early forms of social satire (Corvisier 1969; Werner 1975; Mackenbach 1995).
The Faint's third full-length is filled with lyrics of death, betrayal, parlyzations, and murder. The 'macabre' subject matter is easily forgotten as Todd and Jacob's keyboards overdrive the vocals with hooky, synth lines, in addition to the ferocious drum machines, spastic outbursts of noise, and edgy tension that will have you shaking out to the dance floor.
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The month of October always brings to mind Halloween, which has become more of a season rather than a one-day observance. There are many works of music that depict the spookiness, darkness and morbidity of the annual tradition, but few pieces capture the spirit of the season as playfully as Danse macabre by Camille Saint-Sans (1835-1921). Originally conceived as an art song for voice and piano with a French Text by the poet Henri Cazalis, it eventually evolved into a tone poem for violin and large orchestra.
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In fact, the very existence of "The Skeleton Dance" is probably owed to Danse macabre, the famed tone poem by French composer Camille Saint-Sans, which has become the official anthem for Halloween and next-level drama or antics.
Saint-Sans's Danse macabre, Op. 40, is based on the French legend that Death packs a fiddle and comes to play at midnight on Halloween, causing the skeletons in the cemetery to crawl out of the ground for their annual graveyard dance party.
A grim saraband of skeletons, coming to take you away. Momento mori: remember that you must die. The middle ages preached this lesson with particular intensity. Graphic artists-- Hans Holbein most influentially-- responded to the urgency, to the undeniable power of this topos with scenes in which a dancing, skeletal Reaper came for the archbishop and the servant, the judge and the doctor, the mother and the child. In the nineteenth century the motif is re-energized by revolution and social upheaval, and heralds the arrival of a social fantastic with Alfred Rethel’s great series, Auch ein Todtentanz. Cornell’s extensive collection includes rare works that have never been reproduced in the literature devoted to the subject. Freund’s Heins Erscheinungen (in Holbein’s Manier) and Merkel and Flegel’s Bilder des Todes join Thomas Rowlandsons satirical classic English Dance of Death, for especially remarkable depictions of suicide. The collection also contains early, important studies, like Peignot’s Recherches sur les danses des morts (1826), which links the theme to the iconography of playing cards; Achille Jubinal’s Explication de la danse des morts de la Chaise-Dieu (1841) a hand-colored example of early art-historical interest in ecclesiastical danse macabre frescoes; and E.-H. Langlois’s definitive Essai sur la danse des morts (1852). 006ab0faaa