zig-a-zig-zig

Updated: May 7, 2025

There is here an eccentric quality of humor, a daemonic conceit that reach the height of other classic expression of the supernatural. Zig-a-zig, zig-a-zig-zig, Death fiddles at midnight a ghostly reel. The winter wind whistles, dark is the night; Dull groans behind the lindens grow loud; Back and forth fly the skeletons white, Running and leaping each under his shroud.

Philip H. Goepp - Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies