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Danse Macabre — midnight waltz with bass

Bring the ghostly Danse Macabre waltz to life with both hands in A minor.

DevelopingCamille Saint-Saëns · Waltz theme with bass in A minor · piano both handsPiano · Both hands · A minor · 3/4

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Try it at the keyboard

  1. Practise the descending line in bars 5–7 with the right hand alone first so your fingering is smooth.
  2. Land the left-hand dotted minims firmly on beat 1 of each bar.
  3. Keep the tempo steady so the waltz feels rhythmic and dance-like.

About this score

Transposed from G minor to A minor with a dotted-minim harmonic bass line.

Composed by Camille Saint-Saëns (1874); simplified piano arrangement by NotePlayMusic. Public domain composition (published 1875). Teaching arrangement by NotePlayMusic.

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