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Music for Halloween 2022

Posted by MaryO on October 31, 2022

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  • Catacombs from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
  • Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Dies Irae
  • Dreams of a Witches’ Sabbath from Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz
  • Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod
  • In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg
  • Jaws by John Williams
  • Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky
  • The Addams Family
  • The Monster Mash
  • The Purple People Eater
  • The Skeleton Dance
  • Toccata and Fugue in d minor by J.S Bach

 

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