Camille Saint-Saëns
Written in F major, range E3 to F♯5
An elephant tries to dance a waltz, from Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals (1886). The joke is in the middle, where it borrows Berlioz’s light, airy fairy dance, the Dance of the Sylphs, and makes it heavy.
Arranged by Andrew Lee, used under CC BY 4.0. Original parts on IMSLP. Andrew Lee arranged it for a low wind instrument and piano. We gave his solo part to the clarinet in Lee’s key, E♭ major, and engraved it anew.
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