2. What information can you gain from studying this photograph of a composer's original manuscript?

4. Can you find: The title of the composition? When it was written? Any clues about the composer’s name? Any clues to tell you what instrument it is meant to be played on?

6. What additional information can you learn from this manuscript? Can you locate any musical symbols that may be familiar or unfamiliar to you?

8. Possible Answers: The title of the composition? Danse Macabre When it was written? 1877 Any clues about the composer’s name? First initial is C, some other letters shown in last name (a, i) Any clues to tell you what instrument it is meant to be played on? It is a grand staff with treble clef and bass clef, which is usually meant for piano.

9. What additional information can you learn from this manuscript? The notes for part of the composition and the key signature Can you locate any musical symbols that may be familiar or unfamiliar to you? the symbol to repeat a measure, a natural sign, flat signs, treble clef, bass clef, quarter rest

10. The Moldenhauer Archives - The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial Item Title Danse macabre, 1 Nov. 1877 Author/Creator Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921 Created/Published 1877 Notes For piano Part of Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress Repository Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 Digital ID molden-4581 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/molden.4581 CREDITS