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Can You Guess These Spooky Tunes?

Pop Culture Spooky Music

Try to identify these frightening tunes when they’re played back to front! You can find the answers below. Have fun!

Can You Guess These Spooky Tunes?

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Can You Guess These Spooky Tunes?

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Can You Guess These Spooky Tunes?

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Can You Guess These Spooky Tunes?

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Can You Guess These Spooky Tunes?

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Can You Guess These Spooky Tunes?

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Can You Guess These Spooky Tunes?

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Can You Guess These Spooky Tunes?

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Can You Guess These Spooky Tunes?

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What did you think? Too easy? Too hard? Any suggestions for pieces to add? Let us know in the comments below!

The answers are listed below (click and drag over them to reveal the titles).

Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King
Mozart – Don Giovani
Bernard Hermann – Psycho
Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries
Grieg – March of the Trolls
Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Saint-Saëns – Danse Macabre
Mussorgsky – Night on Bald Mountain
John Williams – “The Imperial March” from Star Wars

Pop Culture Spooky Music

Written by:

The Classical Team

The Classical Team

Published on 05.11.2018

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