Bacchanale
Template:Short description Template:Use shortened footnotes A bacchanale is an orgiastic musical composition,Template:Sfn often depicting a drunken revel or bacchanal.
Examples include the bacchanales in Camille Saint-Saëns's Samson and Delilah, the Venusberg scene in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser,Template:Sfn Danse générale (Bacchanale) from Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, and Grande bacchanale des saisons in Alexander Glazunov's The Seasons.Template:Citation needed John Cage wrote a Bacchanale in 1940, his first work for prepared piano.Template:Sfn The French composer Jacques Ibert was commissioned by the BBC for the tenth anniversary of the Third Programme in 1956,Template:Sfn for which he wrote a bacchanale.Template:Citation needed
In 1939, Salvador Dalí designed the set and wrote the libretto for a ballet entitled Bacchanale, based on Wagner's Tannhäuser and the myth of Leda and the Swan.Template:Sfn
Bacchanale (1954) was written by composer Toshiro Mayuzumi for 5 saxophones (soprano, 2 alto, tenor, baritone), timpani, percussion (4), piano, celesta, harp, and strings.Template:Citation needed The previous year, he had written a Bacchanale for orchestra.Template:Sfn
"Bacchanale" is also a track composed by Greek musician Vangelis on his album Heaven and Hell.