Can-Can, The
Jacques Offenbach (arr. Joan Thorp)
General Info
Year: 1858 / 2008
Duration: c. 2:25
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Thorp Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - AUS$64.15
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part 1
- Flute I
- Oboe
- E-flat Clarinet
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet I
- E-flat Soprano Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet I
- Soprano Cornet
- Solo Cornet
- Repiano Cornet
- Violin I
- Keyboard Percussion
Part 2
- Flute II
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet II
- E-flat Alto Saxophone I
- B-flat Trumpet II
- B-flat Cornet II
- Flugelhorn
- Solo Tenor Horn
- Violin II
Part 3
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet III
- E-flat Alto Saxophone II
- B-flat Cornet III
- Tenor Horn I
- F Horn
- Trombone I
- Euphonium
- Violin III
- Viola
Part 4
- Bassoon I
- E-flat Alto Clarinet
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- Tenor Horn II
- Horn in F II
- Trombone II
- Baritone T.C.
- Euphonium
- Cello I
Part 5
- Bassoon II
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- Bass Trombone
- Baritone T.C. II
- Euphonium II
- Tuba
- String Bass
- B-flat Bass
- E-flat Bass
- Bass Guitar
- Cello II
Additional Parts (optional)
- Piano
- Timpani
- Bass Drum
- Drum Kit
- Crash Cymbals
- Triangle
- Guitar
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Based on the famous melody from Orpheus in the Underworld, Offenbach's famous high-kicking classic is always well received. Perfect for an energetic, crowd-clapping encore.
- Program Note from publisher
Orpheus in the Underworld and Orpheus in Hell are English names for Orphée aux enfers, a comic opera with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy. It was first performed as a two-act "opéra bouffon" at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, on 21 October 1858.
Fifteen years or so after Offenbach's death the galop from Act 2 (or Act 4 in the 1874 version) became one of the world's most famous pieces of music, when the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergère adopted it as the regular music for their can-can. Offenbach scholar Jean-Christophe Keck has commented that the original "infernal galop" was a considerably more spontaneous and riotous affair than the fin de siècle can-can (Keck likens the original to a modern rave), but the tune is now inseparable in the public mind from high-kicking female can-can dancers.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- The Can-Can (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Thorp) (1858/2008)
All Wind Works
- Ballet Parisian (arr. Bender) (1938/1993
- Ballet Parisien (arr. Isaac) (1953)
- Barcarolle
- The Can-Can (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Thorp) (1858/2008)
- Drum Major's Daughter, The (arr. Odom) (1879/1974)
- Galop (arr. Bourgeois) (1859/2001)
- Infernal Galop (arr. VanDuren) (1858/2019)
- La Belle Hélène Overture (arr. Odom) (1864/1978)
- La Vie Parisienne (arr. Singleton) (2004)
- Le Can (arr. Whitcomb) (1858)
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann (arr. Safranek) (1880/1910)
- Madame Favart Overture
- Orpheus in the Underworld Overture (arr Binder) (arr. Binder, ed. McAlister) (1858/2004)
- Orpheus in the Underworld (tr. Nefs) (1858/2019)
- Orpheus in the Underworld Overture (arr Odom) (arr. Odom) (1858/1984)
- Orpheus in the Underworld Overture (arr. Lake and Kent) (1858/1946)
- Overture to "La Vie Parisienne" (arr. Singleton) (1866/2004)
- Overture to "Voyage to the Moon" (trans. Bourgeois) (1875/2017)
- Portraits from La Périchole
- Tales of Hoffman (arr. Safranek). See: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
- Themes from "La Belle Hélène" (arr. Mahaffey) (1864/1997)
- Themes from Offenbach (arr. Johnson) (1959)
Resources
- Orpheus in the Underworld, Wikipedia Accessed 5 July 2020
- Perusal score