danse macabre

Noun

Meaning

a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Examples

A danse macabre painting may show a round dance headed by Death or a chain of alternating dead and live dancers. Source: Internet

August–October, 2013 The Xoregos Performing Company presented Danse Macabre, a contemporary tribute to Grand Guignol at Theater for the New City in New York City. Source: Internet

In Saint-Saëns' " Danse Macabre ", the high string of the violin is lower half a tone to the E so as to have the most accented note of the main theme sound on an open string. Source: Internet

Saint-Saëns 's symphonic poem " Danse Macabre " includes the string section using the col legno technique to imitate the sound of dancing skeletons. Source: Internet

Danse Macabre was a program of four plays of psychological and physical terror, one humorous work and a dance, in keeping with Grand Guignol's programming history. Source: Internet

The most commonly featured motifs that can be found in Villon's poetry are " carpe diem ", " ubi sunt ", " memento mori " and " danse macabre ". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms