5 Spooky Public-Domain Songs for a Halloween Marble Video

The five best public-domain songs for a Halloween marble video are Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King, Chopin's Funeral March, Saint-Saëns' Danse macabre and Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain. Each one already sounds like Halloween to most listeners, and because the compositions are in the public domain, you can build a seasonal series around them without leaning on copyrighted film themes.

Below you'll find why each piece works with a bouncing marble, which free MIDI to start from, and a day-by-day plan for the last week of October. If you've never made one of these videos, the step-by-step tutorial covers the basic flow in Marble Music (formerly Beat Bounce).

The five pieces at a glance

Piece	Composer	Why it works for a marble	Free MIDI on this site
Toccata and Fugue in D minor	J. S. Bach (attributed)	Instantly recognizable opening flourish	Piano version
In the Hall of the Mountain King	Edvard Grieg	One theme that keeps speeding up	Download
Funeral March	Frédéric Chopin	Slow, heavy steps you can see	Download
Danse macabre	Camille Saint-Saëns	A waltz about dancing skeletons	Find one yourself (see below)
Night on Bald Mountain	Modest Mussorgsky	Wild, crashing climaxes	Find one yourself (see below)

The picks, one by one

1. Toccata and Fugue in D minor (Bach)

The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 is an organ piece traditionally credited to Johann Sebastian Bach, though some scholars question the attribution. Its opening, a few sharp notes followed by a long descending run, is the sound many people picture for a haunted house. For a marble, that opening is ideal: a handful of isolated hits, then a cascade. Start the clip on the very first note. The site's file is a piano arrangement, so it imports cleanly as a single instrument.

2. In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg)

Grieg wrote this for the incidental music to Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, where the hero is chased by trolls. The whole piece is one short theme repeated faster and louder until it breaks loose. That steady acceleration is the strongest hook on this list: the marble starts slow and ends in a frenzy, so viewers stay to see the finish. Open with the quiet first statement and cut on the final crash.

3. Funeral March (Chopin)

The Funeral March is the third movement of Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor. Its slow, repeated chords sound like footsteps, and at a slow tempo each bounce is easy to follow. The site's file is the full movement, so pick just the opening phrase for a short clip. It also makes a good contrast post after the frantic Mountain King.

4. Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns)

Danse macabre is an 1874 orchestral piece based on the legend that Death appears at midnight on Halloween and plays his fiddle while skeletons dance. A xylophone imitates rattling bones, which translates well into bright, rapid bounces. There isn't a MIDI for it in this site's library, so search Mutopia or IMSLP and check the license of the specific file, or export your own from a score.

5. Night on Bald Mountain (Mussorgsky)

Night on Bald Mountain depicts a witches' gathering on St. John's Eve. The version most people know is Rimsky-Korsakov's arrangement, made after Mussorgsky's death. Its crashing brass outbursts make dramatic, dense passages, so you may want to simplify the level after import. Source a MIDI the same way as Danse macabre.

Set up a Halloween level in Marble Music

1. Download one of the MIDI files above from the free MIDI library.
2. Open the level editor in Marble Music and import the file. The marble bounces on every note.
3. Play it once. If a passage is a wall of notes, edit the level so the bounces have room to breathe.
4. Choose whichever glowing visual theme feels moodiest for the piece.
5. Render in up to 4K, then trim so the marble is already moving in the first frame.

Sample on-screen line: "This marble plays Grieg. Wait for the trolls." Sample caption: "Every bounce is a note of In the Hall of the Mountain King."

If your audience includes piano learners, Note Bounce can take the same Mountain King MIDI and turn it into a level where bouncing balls land on real sheet music. Viewers can actually read the melody on the staff as it speeds up, which makes a good companion post to the marble version.

Posting checklist for October 25–31

Halloween 2026 falls on a Saturday. Batch-render everything on one day, then post through the week:

• Sun Oct 25: Toccata opening, as a short teaser.
• Mon Oct 26: Funeral March, first phrase only.
• Tue Oct 27: Danse macabre, if you sourced a MIDI.
• Wed Oct 28: Night on Bald Mountain, the biggest climax you can fit.
• Thu Oct 29: Guess-the-piece clip: the first few seconds of one of the five, title revealed at the end.
• Fri Oct 30: In the Hall of the Mountain King, full build-up.
• Sat Oct 31: Repost your best performer, or a compilation of all five.

A note on music rights: the compositions above are public domain, but not every arrangement or MIDI file is. Skip modern film or game themes for this series. Covers of copyrighted songs carry copyright risk on every platform.

Make your first spooky clip

Start with the Mountain King MIDI today. It's the easiest of the five to get right, and its build-up does the work for you. Render it, check it on your phone, and keep it ready for Halloween week.