Details
- Ensembles:
- Woodwind Quintet Woodwind Ensemble
- Composers:
- Camille Saint-Saens
- Publishers:
- RayThompsonMusic
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Format:
- Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Digital
- Instructionals:
- Methods and More
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Artist:
- Camille Saint-Saens
- Arrangers:
- Ray Thompson
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Number of Pages:
- 10
SKU: A0.553833
Composed by Camille Saint-Saens. Arranged by Ray Thompson. This edition: pdf. Contemporary, Halloween, Instructional, Romantic Period, Standards. 10 pages. RayThompsonMusic #4897069. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.553833).The Carnival of the Animals (Le carnaval des animaux) is a humorous musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The work was written for private performance by an ad hoc ensemble of two pianos and other instruments, and lasts around 25 minutes.
This is mvt XIV Fossiles (Fossils)
The original orchestration has Strings, two pianos, clarinet, and xylophone.
Saint-Saëns mimics his own composition, the Danse macabre, which makes heavy use of the xylophone to evoke the image of skeletons playing card games, the bones clacking together to the beat. The musical themes from Danse macabre are also quoted; the xylophone and the violin play much of the melody, alternating with the piano and clarinet. Allusions to "Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman" (better known in the English-speaking world as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star), the French nursery rhymes "Au clair de la lune", and "J'ai du bon tabac", the popular anthem "Partant pour la Syrie", as well as the aria "Una voce poco fa" from Rossini's The Barber of Seville can also be heard.
The musical joke in this movement, according to Leonard Bernstein's narration on his recording of the work with the New York Philharmonic, is that the musical pieces quoted are the fossils of Saint-Saëns's time.
I have arranged it here for wind quintet, I have given the main tune to the oboe.
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- ArrangeMe:
- RayThompsonMusic
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Artists:
- Camille Saint-Saens Ray Thompson
- Ensemble:
- Woodwind Quintet Woodwind Ensemble
- Publisher:
- RayThompsonMusic