Danse Macabre

Every so often I’ll run across danse macabre art, and it rarely fails to make me smile. The medieval art often looks kind of goofy to the modern eye, but the sensibility behind it, that we’re all going to die eventually and it’s not a bad thing, I like that. It’s a good way to look at things, I feel.

And I don’t know, maybe this is my inner Goth showing, but I think a skeleton orchestra is kind of charming.

Of course, it helps that the danse macabre genre will always be linked to one of my favourite short pieces of music:

Happy Hallowe’en!