About This Song
About "Le carnaval des animaux: 12. Fossiles" by Béla Siki
Fossils clatter with xylophone bones, a danse macabre of extinct forms. Saint-Saëns quotes his own Danse macabre, turning the orchestra into a graveyard chorus. The music’s brittle cheer masks an eerie unease, as if skeletons are dancing just out of sight, grinning at the living.