Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre

uuh...ok (you should just say "its a tritone" I dont need of all this blabering)

Probably Fantasia.

That weird sound is called a tritone, the most dissonant interval after a minor second and the major seventh. Catholicism thought of the tritone as "the devil's interval" and it was often associated with death, which is why Saint-Saëns used it: the violin represents Death who calls the dead from their graves.

Yeah, I've definitely heard the 'influence'--shall we say--of Saint-saens in a lot of Elfman's compositions. It's interesting you mention Carnival of the animals, because I also think he borrowed quite heavily from the Aquarium piece for his Edward Scissorhands score

this song is used in a hountend house in a theme park here in holland, de efteling,very cool!! i love this song!!

Danny Elfman has definitely written music in the style of Saint-Saens. This has been used in a lot of movie trailers if not the movies themselves. This and "Carnival of the Animals" are good pieces to play to get children interested in classical music, and of course anything in the old WB cartoons.

Romantic as in the romantic era of music. It doesn't necessarily mean it's the sort of romance your thinking of. It's got nothing to do with interpersonal relationships.

For future reference, the three eras of classical music are: The Baroque (Bach, Vivaldi, Handel), The Classical (Mozart, Haydn) and the Romantic era (Wagner, Later Beetoven, Chopin, and this piece).

Danny Elfman seems to have borrowed from this quite heavily when composing portions of the score for the first batman movie, no? I'm thinking of the belltower sequences here.

beautiful! I hope our high school can play this but i dunno... 5*

Great version!