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No, they are different pieces. Saint-Saëns quotes part of Danse Macabre in 'Le Carnival des Animaux', in the movement entitled 'Fossils' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD9gAyyd6wE&feature...

And I wonder if you and Jim are the same guy. Or for that matter Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden. Yup. Exactly the same.

Seriously, though, go to the iTunes store and look up both of those titles. "Carnival of the Animals" is a suite of pieces depicting different animals (including swans, which you asked about in another question), lasts about a half hour, I believe. "Danse Macabre" is one piece, no more than 10 minutes, that was used almost in its entirety in an episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

I wonder if you already know the answer to that, and you is trollin'?

Seriously, they are different pieces--completely different pieces with different themes--by the SAME composer, so that is why there might be superficial similarity to the music. It's like if you were to compare two different operas by Richard Wagner. Wagner has a definite "style" to his music--you wouldn't mistake his music for Mozart, but at the same time, you can't say that his operas sound identical to each other to the point that you can't tell them apart. Of course, there are people who are truly tone deaf (scientific name "amusia"). To these people, unless they are looking or hearing lyrics, they wouldn't be able to tell "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" apart from "Ah! Vous dirai-je maman"! Oh....wait...maybe that's a bad example.

I wonder if this question and http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201109... are the same.

... they look the same

No ******.