5 on Friday -- The Halloween Edition -- Set 290

Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...

For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other 5 on Friday blogger -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.

Happy Halloween, Everyone!

My favorite spooky music is by far the sweeping sounds of an orchestra transporting my muse to all the dark places that bring me to the stories I write.

Add a choral dimension into the mix, and it sends chills of delight along my spine.

Hope these pieces make your Halloween complete.

Happy Haunting!

1 - Masquerade Waltz - composed by Aram Khachaturian

2 - Danse Macabre - composed by Camille Saint-Saens

3 - Midnight from the Cinderella ballet score - composed by Sergei Prokofiev

4 - Totentanz - composed by Franz Liszt

5 - Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) from Requiem Mass - composed by Giuseppi Verdi

5 on Friday - Set 141

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

My Spooky Stories Author series continues throughout October here at A Piece of My Mind.

If you missed the first three interviews, you can catch them here:

Natalie G. Owens, author of AN INCONVENIENT DEBT

Trish Milburn, author of MAGICK

Caleb Casey, author of NOW YOU'LL NEVER KNOW 

This week brings us to some truly classic spine-tingling compositions. Best enjoyed while walking through overgrown misty graveyards... 

1 - In the Hall of the Mountain King - composed by Edvard Grieg - performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

2 - Ride of the Valkyries - composed by Richard Wagner - performed by the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

3 - Night on Bald Mountain - composed by Modest Mussorgsky - performed by Leopold Stokowski's Symphony Orchestra

4 - Danse Macabre - composed by Camille Saint-Saens - performed by the National Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski

5 - The Isle of the Dead, part I - composed by Sergei Rachmaninov - performed by the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra