They often speak of the danse au virlet, a kind of round dance, during the performance of which each person in turn sang a verse, the chorus being repeated by all.
From a Painting in the "Danse des Morts" of Basle, engraved by Mérian.
From a Woodout in the "Danse Macabre:" Guyot's edition, 1490.
Costume of a Vilain or Peasant, Fifteenth Century, from a Miniature of "La Danse Macabre," Manuscript 7310 of the National Library of Paris.
In the tiny church of the town there is a remarkable ancient painting picturing a "danse macabre," supposed to be of the fifteenth century.
This composition, belonging as it does to the ultra-realistic French school of the present day, is a vivid tone picture of the same "Danse Macabre.
Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre For the significance of the French word macabre we must turn to the Arabic makabir, signifying a burial place or cemetery.
In relation to the use of your welcome tone-sustaining pedal I inclose two examples: Danse des Sylphes, by Berlioz, and No.
Opening their wings, they draw together their feet, like men doing the danse du sac.
This contre-danse of prairie chickens is very amusing.
The Académie Royale de Musique et de Danse had been founded in 1669, and from that date the ballet, as an entertainment of dancing only, may be said to have come into being.
At Rouen in the aitre (atrium) or cloister of St Maclou there also remains a sculptured danse macabre.
Danse yon caleinda marre (to dance the calinda or caleinda tied up) meant to receive a whipping.
Her tireless hunt for new tints often diverts her indeed from the direct forthright of her meaning, but the "Danse des Fleurs" is rich in its gorgeousness.
As the sun sets slowly and the shadows gather, this aged sepulchre of the dead of Rouen gradually gives up its secrets, and the ancient city of past centuries reappears to the grating of the rebec of the "Danse Macabre.
But if the poor had their Danse Macabre, the great ones of the city spared nothing to impress on their survivors that the magnificence of their lives should follow them even to the tomb.
Sur le pont D'Avignon On y danse On y danse, Sur le pont D'Avignon On y danse Tout en rond!
He remembered the sound of those laughing, girlish voices: Sur le pont D'Avignon On y danse On y danse.
Sur le pont D'Avignon On y danse On y danse, Sur le pont D'Avignon On y danse Tout en rond.
Sur le pont D'Avignon On y danse On y danse, sang the girlish voices upstairs.
Look again at Gaudenzio Ferrari, or the "Danse des Paysans," by Holbein, to which I ventured to call attention in the Universal Review.
It was the Danse Macabre,' added the sweet tone that did indeed unclose Malcolm's eyes, to see Esclairmonde bending over him, and holding wine to his lips.
This work is suggested by a poem of Henri Cazalis, the first verse of which runs thus: "Zig et zig et zag, la mort en cadence Frappant une tombe avec son talon La mort a minuit joue un air dedanse Zig et zig et zag, sur son violon.
Is there not a vein of grim humour in the "Danse Macabre"?
Perhaps the most characteristic of the four symphonic poems is the well-known "Danse Macabre.
It possesses a remarkable monument which shows a painted "Danse des Morts," with figures of nearly life size.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "danse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
