La Danse Macabre is a music from the Shovel Knight soundtrack. This is the original stage theme of the Lich Yard. It can also be played on Lich Yard - Mausoleum in Shovel Knight Showdown if Theme Shuffle is enabled.
Description[]
"Even the dead can dance in this desolate land."
Music Sheet[]
Music Sheet #25 can be found in the Lich Yard, in a Treasure Chest below the third checkpoint.
Dialogue[]
"Bard: Let's see here... Oh, you found "La Danse Macabre"! "Dead crowd tonight," says I. Lesson learned: Never crack jokes in a graveyard. Never ever."
Trivia[]
- La Danse Macabre roughly translates to "The Dance of the Dead" in French. Danse Macabre is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or personified Death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave.
- The song also has a similar title to a book written by Stephen King.
- Also the song is an arrangement based on both classical song of the same name composed by French composer Saint-Saëns and Russian composer Mussorgsky.
- This was one of the 4 tracks remixed and used in Just Shapes & Beats Just Shovels and Knights update, along with Strike the Earth!, Flowers of Antimony, and In the Halls of the Usurper.