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dance of death

Popular theme in painting of the late medieval period, depicting an allegorical representation of death (usually a skeleton) leading the famous and the not-so-famous to the grave. One of the best-known representations is a series of woodcuts (1523–26) by Hans Holbein the Younger. It has also been exploited as a theme in music, for example the Danse macabre of Saint-Saëns (1874), an orchestral composition in which the xylophone was introduced to represent dancing skeletons.



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The festivities were delayed awaiting the return of the warriors who had remained to engage in the skirmish with the white men, so that it was quite late when all were in the village, and the dance of death commenced to circle around the doomed officer.
Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
And now, in joyless age, she felt that some withered partner should request her hand, and all unite, in a dance of death, to the music of the funeral bell.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
The dance of death he could picture in his mind's eye--for he had seen the thing many times in the past.
The Beasts of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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