CLASSICAL MUSIC FOR HALLOWEEN

Halloween by Grandma Moses
http://biblioklept.org/2013/10/31/halloween-grandma-moses/

SCREAM by Edvard Munch (1893)
http://www.artteacherscookbook.com/10-Famous-Paintings-Every-Student-Should-Know.html

Adam: Giselle

Arnold: Tam O’Shanter Overture, Op. 51

Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: I. Aria (as heard in The Silence of the Lambs) 

Bach: Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565

Bartok: Harvest Song (Ara taskor) Violin Duo No. 33

Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin

Bartok: Music for Strings

Bartok: Out of Doors, BB89

Bazzini: Dance of the Goblins

Beethoven: Piano Trio in D Op.70 No.19 ghost) 

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14: IV. March to the Scaffold

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14: V. Dream of the Witches' Sabbath

Boellmann: Toccata (4th movt. of Suite Gothique)

Brahms: Begraebnisgesang

Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5 in g minor

Brahms: Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 25

Brahms: Tragic Overture

Britten: Four Sea Interludes "Storm" from "Peter Grimes"

Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches: III. Hobgoblin

Chopin: Funeral March: Piano Sonata in B flat op.35

Cowell: The Banshee

Crumb: Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death

Crumb: Vox balaena

Debussy: La Cathedrale engloutie (The Engulfed Cathedral)

Debussy: Syrinx

De Falla: Dance of Terror

Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)

Dvořák: The Noon Witch, B. 196, Op. 108

Franck: Le chasseur maudit (The Accursed Hunter)

Gluck: Dance of the Furies

Gounod: Funeral March Of A Marionette

Gounod: Faust, Le veaud'or est toujours debout!

Gregorian Chant: Offertorium

Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King

Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Book 5, Op. 54: No. 3. March of the Trolls

Grieg: Nordraak's Funeral March

Grieg: Smatrold (Puck)

Herrmann: The Devil and Daniel Webster 

Herrmann: Psycho

Holst: Planets, Op. 32: Suite No.1 (Mars)

Holst: Planets, Op. 32: VII. Neptune - The Mystic

Holst: Planets, Op. 32: Uranus (The Magician)

Ives: Robert Browning Overture

Ives: The Unanswered Question

Leoncavallo: Vesti la giubba (Canio)

Liadov: Baba Yaga, Op. 56

Liadov: Kikimora, Op. 63 

Ligeti: Atmospheres

Ligeti: L'escalier du Diable (Devil's Staircase)

Liszt: Inferno from Dante Symphony Movt. 1

Liszt: Totentanz

Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1

MacDowell: Fantasiestucke, Op. 17: No. 2. Hexentanz (Witches Dance)

MacDowell: A Haunted House 

Mahler: Scherzo, Schattenhaft (Movt. III) from Symphony No. 7 

Mendelssohn: Song With out Words Funeral March (Trauermarsch)

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time

Meyerbeer: Robert le diable (Robert the Devil): Nonnes qui reposez

Mozart: Requiem "Dies Irae"

Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626: Lacrimosa dies illa

Mozart: Die Zauberflote, Der Holle Rache... (Queen of the Night)

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Don Juan), K. 527: Overture

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Don Juan), K. 527: The Commendatore Scene

Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G Minor

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestra): Catacombae (Catacombs)

Mussorgsky: The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaba)

Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain

Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death

Nielsen: MasqueradeSuite 

Orff: O Fortuna from Carmina Burana

Orff: The Roasted Swan from Carmina Burana

Paganini/Rachmaninoff: Variations "Dies Irae" (Day of Wrath)

Paganini: Witches Dance

Penderecki: Symphony No. 1

Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima

Penderecki: Utrenja Ewangelia

Pettersson: Symphony No. 6

Poulenc: Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G Minor

Prokofiev: The Battle of the Ice Movt. 8 from Alexander Nevsky

Prokofiev: Dance of the Knights

Prokofiev: Etude Op.2 No.1

Prokofiev: Montagues and Capulets from Romeo and Juliet

Prokofiev: Suggestion Diabolique

Purcell: Queen Mary's Funeral Music

Rachmaninoff: Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C Sharp Minor (Bells of Moscow)

Rachmaninoff: Etude Tableaux Op. 33 No. 5

Rachmaninoff: Isle of the Dead, Op. 29

Rachmaninoff: Prelude, Op. 3 No. 2 in C Sharp Minor

Ravel: Le Gibet from Gaspard de la Nuit 

Reich: "Nibelung Zeppelin" scene II of 'Hindenburg' Act I of opera'Three Tales'

Respighi: Festivals Circenses

Saint-Saëns: Aquarium from Carnival Of The Animals

Saint-Saëns: Fossils from Carnival of the Animals

Saint-Saëns: Dance Macabre

Satie: Gnossiene No. 1

Schoenberg: Nacht from Pierrot Lunaire No. 8

Schoenberg: Erwartung

Schubert: Erlkonig (The Elf King)

Scriabin: Black Mass Sonata for Piano Op. 68

Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8in C Minor

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10, Movt. 2

Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony No. 2, Movt. 2

Stravinsky: Firebird Suite: Infernal Dance

Stravinsky: Histoire du Soldat (Danse du Diable)

Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress I burn! I freeze! 

Stravinsky: Sacrificial Dance from The Rite of Spring

Tartini: Sonata in G, The Devil's Trill

Turnage: Three Farewells (All Will Be Well) 

Vaughn-Williams: Symphony No. 7 Symphonia Antartica

Verdi: Dies Irae

Verdi: Stride la Vampa

Vivaldi: Storm from Summer (Four Seasons)

Wagner: Siegfried's Death (Gotterdammerung)

Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walkure)

Weber: Der Freischutz

Webern: Funf Satze 4

Webern: Funf Satze 5

Webern: Variations Op. 27 - Ruhig fliessend

Williams: Devil's Dance

Williams: Imperial March

**My favorites for Halloween are in RED

Arnold Boecklin - Island of the Dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_the_Dead_(painting)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_the_Dead_(Rachmaninoff)

LINKS

http://voices.yahoo.com/fifty-pieces-classical-music-halloween-2055678.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15383917

http://welltempered.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/classical-music-poll-what-is-the-best-music-for-halloween/

http://www.squidoo.com/spooky_music

http://musicalresources.blogspot.com/2011/10/classical-music-for-halloween-playlist.html

http://www.mevsthehouse.com/classical-music-for-an-elegant-halloween-party-16-scary-eerie-and-creepy-selections

http://suite101.com/article/classical-music-treat-for-halloween-a75555

http://forums.kickassclassical.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18

http://www.royaltyfreeclassicalmusic.co.uk/Scary-Classical-Music-for-Halloween.html

http://www.compactdiscoveries.com/CompactDiscoveriesScripts/17PEHalloweenPledgeEvent.html

http://titania86-fishmuffins.blogspot.com/2009/10/classical-music-for-halloween.html

http://voices.yahoo.com/top-10-classical-songs-halloween-4237195.html?cat=33

http://classyclassical.blogspot.com/2005/10/classical-music-playlist-for-halloween.html

http://www.classicsforkids.com/shows/showdesc.asp?id=133

http://www.analekta.com/blog/en/2010/10/31/music-for-halloween/

http://freebies.about.com/od/halloweenfreebie1/tp/free-halloween-music.htm

http://www.theholidayspot.com/halloween/music.htm

http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/classicalmusictips/a/halloweenmusic.htm

http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/classicalmusictips/a/halloweenmusic2.htm

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0A15A5E794C583E3

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD3D1BA425665BE31

http://www.soundsandfury.com/soundsandfury/2009/10/top-ten-halloween-classical-music-playlist-a-pop-list-natch.html

http://voices.yahoo.com/classical-music-halloween-fifty-pieces-4203767.html?cat=4
http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/10/23/13-creepy-classical-compositions-for-halloween-2/

http://kidsmusiccorner.co.uk/2010/11/01/scary-music-on-halloween/

Michael Wolgemut: The Dance Of Skeletons
http://madamemusique.canalblog.com/archives/2010/05/21/17976469.html

Skeleton Dance

Silly Symphony

1929 Disney Short

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03QBNVwX8Q

Franz Schubert: Erlkönig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS91p-vmSf0&feature=youtu.be