@Blondsjon; Camille Saint-saëns wrote ”Danse macabre ”: about death by dancing skeletons on Halloween.
Additionally, in his Carnival of the Animals, there is a segment on Fossils.
The bones dance around to the melody played by a xylophone.
Ogden wrote verses for all the segments of Animals.
Here is Fossils. And here is the piece being read before the orchestra starts.
“At midnight in the museum hall
The fossils gathered for a ball
There were no drums or saxophones,
But just the clatter of their bones,
A rolling, rattling, carefree circus
Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas.
Pterodactyls and brontosauruses
Sang ghostly prehistoric choruses.
Amid the mastodontic wassail
I caught the eye of one small fossil.
“Cheer up, sad world,” he said, and winked-
“It’s kind of fun to be extinct.”