A Comparison of Dance Macabre and Night On A Bare Mountain
Programme Music is a piece of music which can describe something. It has many advantages in a way because you could be looking at an image or words I.e. (a poem) and it can instantly interpret through the various types of musical instruments (Strings, Percussion, Woodwind & Brass) what you are reading or looking at. This can be done by varying the usage of tempo, rhythm, pitch, melody, accompaniment, & dynamics etc. You may find that the sound an instrument creates can effect the way we feel. An example :a flute could be classed as harmonious because the flute plays a high-pitched note that can give the effect of cheeriness. The complete opposite
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All the low-pitched instruments could be classed as Autumn & Winter -because it is the most bitter and drastic time of the year. Both ‘Dance Macabre’ and ‘Night on the Bare Mountain’ have one thing in common this is that both pieces describe the ‘Dance Of Death’.
Dance Macabre was based on folklore in around the 14 &15th century. It was written by a French composer called Saint-Saens. The piece describes the gruesome happenings in the churchyard of a small French Village on Halloween. Dance Macabre was based on a poem which was written by another Frenchman called Henri Cazalis. The Piece is very clever because the instruments used almost certainly Sounded like the poem itself examples of which are; “Zig-a-zig-a-Zig” This sounds like death is tuning his violin. “His heels tap the tomb stones” this line in the poem could of influenced the composer to use the Timpani - it really had a good effect. The line “Death at midnight playing a dance tune” could have been referring to tempo -dance tune associated would have a fast tempo. Before we actually listened to Dance Macabre
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I also expected to hear woodwind (the Flutes, Bassoons, Oboes etc…) being played because the poem line “The Winter wind whistles and the Lime-trees moan”, made me think of woodwind instruments because Woodwind is associated with blowing in order to produce the instrument’s sound. When I actually heard Dance Macabre it was similar to how I imagined it to sound like. The piece was firstly introduced by the Strings being played (Harp + Violin ) then the Timpani was played to represent the heels tapping the tomb stones. Towards the middle of the piece Woodwind was used to symbolise the Winter wind whistling. When the Skeletons were introduced I was expecting to hear the Double Bass being played as it would of created a creeping up on you effect. In actual fact the skeletons were represented by the Xylophone this is very clever because you could visualize the clattering of bones from the Skeletons dancing just by hearing the Xylophone. The ending of Dance Macabre it was very effective as when the Skeletons stopped dancing the wild
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