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Originally Posted by Craig  I had no idea it was grimly humorous. I don't listen to it that often, and what I most have stuck in my head is the starting part, which sounds dark to me. |
The idea of skeletons waltzing in pairs in a graveyard? That's grimly humorous. You want dark? Try looking at newsreels of what's going on at this moment in Sudan. Rape, slaughter, the destruction of tens of thousands of lives. That's dark, that's happening every single day, and it's real.
As for classical music that's dark:
Purcell: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
Faure: Pavane
Schumann: Manfred Overture
Chopin: Piano Sonatas No. 2, 3
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 8, 13, 14; Quartets No. 8, 11-15
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Try those, for starters.