Camille Saint-Saëns-Danse Macabreĭanse Macabre is particularly haunting and entertaining because of its subject matter. At the time, works like this were premiered, there were often riots brought on by these new emotional musical expressions. Late Romantic Period composers introduced more raw emotion and darkness in pieces, often to a radical degree. Back in the late 1800s however, the groundwork was being laid for this movement, particularly by French Composers like Saint-Saëns. The formulas for marrying the image with music are well used and documented. Of course, this is common place practice today in film and TV scoring. These pieces were called 'tone poems.' In the Romantic period of classical music into the Impressionistic period dominated by Debussy, composers where finding inspiration in paintings and poetry, using these other art forms to expand the emotional scope of all kinds of orchestral and chamber works. In the late 1800's, orchestral composers were creating music inspired by famous poems of the day. I was first interested in listening to Danse Macabre to get an idea of the context behind Macabre Strings. Figure 1: Strezov Sampling and Production.
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