Camille Saint-Saëns
In E♭ major, range B♭0 to E3
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. The play-along score is our transcription of the original parts; the notes are unchanged.
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