At the lower end of the Totentanz, Death calls, for example, the peasant to dance, who answers:

Liszt wrote the Totentanz for piano and orchestra, a paraphrase of the Dies Irae.

In a more general sense, the term " piano concerto " could extend to the numerous often programmatic concerted works for piano and orchestra from the era – Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, Liszt's Totentanz and Ruins of Athens Variations, and Richard Strauss's Burleske are only a few of the hundreds of such works.

Rimsky-Korsakov declares in his memoirs ( Chronicle of My Musical Life ) that in the early 1860s Mussorgsky, under the influence of Franz Liszt's Totentanz, had written a version of the Bare Mountain music for piano and orchestra.

In 2002, Boltanski made the installation " Totentanz II " for the underground Centre for International Light Art ( www. lichtkunst-unna. de ) in Unna, Germany.

Totentanz (): Paraphrase on Dies irae, S. 126, is the name of a symphonic piece for solo piano and orchestra by Franz Liszt, which is notable for being based on the Gregorian plainchant melody Dies Irae as well as for daring stylistic innovations.

The word has gained its significance from its use in French as la danse macabre for the allegorical representation of the ever-present and universal power of death, known in English as the Dance of Death and in German as Totentanz.

Analogous themes which are associated with this theory include the Dance of Death, Totentanz or Danse Macabre, a common medieval type.

Franck wrote the delicately evocative Les Eolides, following it with the narrative Le chasseur maudit and the piano-and-orchestral tone poem Les Djinns, conceived in much the same manner as Liszt's Totentanz.

Some of the titles of Liszt ’ s pieces, such as Totentanz, Funérailles, La lugubre gondola, Pensée des morts, etc., show the composer's fascination with death.

Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre ( French ), Danza de la Muerte ( Spanish ), Dansa de la Mort ( Catalan ), Danza Macabra ( Italian ), Dança da Morte ( Portuguese ), Totentanz ( German ), Dodendans ( Dutch ), Surmatants ( Estonian ), is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all.

Freund Hein is a skeleton who plays the fiddle and leads a Totentanz or " danse macabre ".

Bergman's The Seventh Seal is quoted throughout, and the Totentanz at the end is comparable to that film's final scene.

The famous Totentanz by Bernt Notke in Lübeck ’ s Marienkirche ( destroyed during the Allied Bombing of Lübeck in World War II ) presented the dead dancers as very lively and agile, making the impression that they were actually dancing, whereas their living dancing partners looked clumsy and passive.

Lübecker Totentanz by Bernt Notke ( around 1463, destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942 ).

In 2004 Merregnon 2 has been released on the market by Totentanz Records, distributed by SoulFood / Sony Music.

* Totentanz ( Liszt ), a symphonic piece composed by Franz Liszt

A page entitled " Der Tod holt das Kind " (" Death takes away the child ") from the Totentanz by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1538.

These writings are complemented by an illustration of the Beinhaus ( House of Bones ) taken from a series of drawings of the Totentanz ( Dance of Death ).

Titles included " Totentanz " ( Death Dance ), " Idiot ", " High Society ", " Im Suff " ( Sloshed ), a self-portrait, " Twist tanzende Nutten " ( Twist dancing hookers ), " Klee und Ensor, um einen Bückling streitend " ( Klee and Ensor, arguing over a kipper, " Bückling " carrying the double meaning, both a smoked herring and a bowing ) and " Peter Lorre oder einer, der aus Berufung die schöne Aussicht versperrt ".

Short verse dialogues between Death and each of its victims, which could have been performed as plays, can be found in the direct aftermath of the Black Death in Germany ( where it was known as the Totentanz, and in Spain as la Danza de la Muerte ).

His fresco The Triumph of Death inspired Franz Liszt's masterwork Totentanz.

* Totentanz ( The Dance of Death, 1908 )

* Der Totentanz ( The Dance of Death, 1831, epic poem )

Beinhaus from the Totentanz ( Dance of Death ).

In the first printed Totentanz textbook ( Anon.

: Vierzeiliger oberdeutscher Totentanz, Heidelberger Blockbuch, approx.

Bernt Notke: Surmatants ( Totentanz ) in St. Nicholas ' Church, Tallinn.

In the bootleg recording of the Mannheim Mozartsaal concert of 1976 ( Tangerine Tree volume 13 ), the first part of the first piece also clearly quotes from Franz Liszt's Totentanz.

* Liszt, Totentanz S126 ; Malediction S121 ; Hungarian Fantasy S123.

A sheet of Hans Holbein the Younger | Hans Holbein's Danse Macabre | Totentanz, 1538.

Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example -- that of employment -- for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept.

The promenade, for example, continues to take place on the Chahar Bagh, a mile-long garden of plane and poplar trees that now serves as the city's principal street.

for example, the mode of bravery to this anonymous folk poem: `` They brought me news that Spring is in the plains And Ahmad's blood the crimson tulip stains ; ;

Incapable of self-delusion, the Founding Fathers found the crisis of their time to be equally grave, and yet they had confidence that America would surmount it and that a republic of free peoples would prosper and serve as an example to a world aching for liberty.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

The sequence may involve a sharp contrast: for example, a quiet meditative sway of the body succeeded by a violent leap ; ;

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

In agriculture, for example, despite the advances in biology, elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster.

The creative urge, for example, transcends the body and the self.

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.

How did it happen, for example, that the state university, that great symbol of American democracy, failed to flourish in New England as it did in other parts of the country??

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

Why, for example, should the ancients have supposed the diurnal rotation of the heavens to be elliptical??

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.

Reviewing Davidson's The Testament Of An Empire Builder, for example, Thompson found that there was `` too much metrical dialectic ''.

In his book Civilization And Ethics Albert Schweitzer faces the moral problems which arise when moral law is recognized in business life, for example.

Those who wanted to close the theaters, for example, pointed to Plato's Republic and those who wished to keep them open called on the Plato of the Ion to testify in their behalf.

In archaeology, for example, the contributions of Frederick Haverfield and Reginald Smith to the various volumes of the Victoria County Histories raised the discipline from the status of an antiquarian pastime to that of the most valuable single tool of the early English historian.