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Encyclopedia > Danse Macabre (disambiguation)

The term La Danse Macabre (also La Danza Macabra, or Totentanz, or Dance of Death) may refer to several things:


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Encyclopedia: Danse Macabre (disambiguation) (447 words)
From The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein La Danse Macabre, also called Dance of death, La Danza Macabra, or Totentanz, is a late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter ones station in life, the dance of death united all.
Danse Macabre (first performed in 1874) is the name of opus 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
Danse Macabre is the third studio album by the indie rock band The Faint.
Danse Macabre - definition of Danse Macabre in Encyclopedia (168 words)
La Danse Macabre, also called Dance of death, La Danza Macabra, or Totentanz, is a late-medieval allegory on the universality of death.
La Danse Macabre consists of the personified Death leading a row of dancing figures from all walks of life to the grave—typically with an emperor, king, pope, monk, youngster, beautiful girl, all in skeleton-state; the best-known Danses Macabres are frescos in French and German churches.
They were produced under the impact of the Black Death, that reminded people of how fragile their lives were and how vain the glories of earthly life were.
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