Le Carnaval des Animaux (flex)

Camille Saint-Saëns

Camille Saint-Saëns (arr. Makato Onodera)

General Info

Year: 1886 /
Duration: c. 7:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Bravo Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $80.00

Instrumentation (Flexible)

Full Score
Part 1

Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet
E-flat Soprano Saxophone

Part 2

Flute
Oboe
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet
E-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet

Part 3

B-flat Soprano Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
F Horn

Part 4

B-flat Soprano Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
F Horn

Part 5

E-flat Alto Clarinet
Bassoon
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
Trombone
Euphonium

Part 6

Bassoon
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
Tuba
String Bass

Piano (optional)
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:

Bass Drum
Crash Cymbals
Glockenspiel
Ratchet
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbal
Triangle
Vibraphone
Wind Chimes
Wood Blocks (2)
Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

The work Carnival of the Animals composed by Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) was from the composer's mature period at the age of 51 (1886), and is probably the most famous piece of his work. This 14-piece suite is entertaining to people who listen to each song as if it were a jewel that emits a different glow. In 1886, after being blamed by Wagner critics and banned from playing outside Prague and Vienna, Saint-Saëns spent a carnival week in the small city of Kurdim in Austria to heal his tired mind. Saint-Saëns, who was staying at the house of his friend cello player Lebuque, was strongly urged to compose for a concert held by Lebuque on the last day of the carnival, and the song composed was the Carnival of the Animals. It's a strange suite with a feeling of trying to irony critics and worldly people who attack themselves. It uses parody of famous songs and folk songs, and various animals are humorously and lively drawn.

This arrangement was originally arranged for the woodwind percussion octet under the commission of Asaka Daiichi Junior High School in Saitama Prefecture (advisor, Professor Miyoshi Tonozaki), and rearranged for flexible composition at the time of this publication. The basic structure is a flexible octet plus percussion double octet, which is a total of eight ensembles. However, six wind instruments can be played by overlapping different instruments and the number of people, and by adding an optional percussion instrument and piano.

- Program Note by arranger (roughly translated through Google Translate)

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Okayama Sanyo High School

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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University of Lethbridge (Alb., Can.) Wind Orchestra (Chee Meng Low, conductor) - 18 April 2021

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Le Carnaval des Animaux (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Onodera) (1886/2018)

All Wind Works

Aquarium (arr. Moore) (1886/2011)
Bacchanale (arr. Balent) (1877/2002)
Bacchanale (arr. Egner) (1877/1926)
Bacchanale (arr. Hubbell) (1877/1991)
Bacchanale from "Samson and Delila" (arr. Hanna) (1877/)
Carnival of the Animals (arr. Brand)
The Carnival of the Animals (arr. Bocook) (1886/2006)
The Carnival of the Animals (arr. Curnow) (1886/2008)
Carnival of the Animals, The (arr. Goto). See Le Carnaval des Animaux
Chorale for Wind Band and Melodic Percussion (arr. Giroux) (2015)
Danse Bacchanale (arr. Steiger) (1877/1985)
Danse Bacchanale (arr. Bocook) (1877/2004)
Danse Bacchanale (arr. Singleton) (1877/)
Danse Macabre (arr. Bender)
Danse Macabre (tr Hindsley) (tr. Hindsley) (1874/197-?)
Danse Macabre (arr. Laurendeau) (1874/1903)
Danse Macabre (arr. Brian Sheldon) (1874/)
Danse Macabre (arr. Slawson) (1874/2013)
Part One, "Organ Symphony" (no. 3 (tr. Hindsley) (1886/197-?)
Finale, Symphony No 3 in C (arr. Slocum) (1886/1974)
Finale to "Hail! California" (ed. Martin) (1915/2015)
Finale from "Symphony No. 3" (arr. VanDoren) (1886/2022)
First Movement, "Organ Symphony" (no. 3) (tr. Hindsley) (1886/197-?)
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (arr. Kessler)
La Princesse Jaune (arr. Odom) (1872/1980)
La Princesse Jaune (arr. Lake) (1872/1929)
La Princesse Jaune (arr. Schyns) (1872/2002)
Le Carnaval des Animaux (arr. Goto) (1886/2000/2012)
Le Carnaval des Animaux (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Onodera) (1886/2018)
March-Scherzo (arr. Marcus) (1853/2015)
Marche Dédiée aux Étudiants d'Alger (orch. Bouchel) (1921/1925)
Marche Heroïque (arr. Winterbottom) (1871/1906)
Marche Interalliée (orch. Balay) (1918/2014)
Marche Militaire Francaise (tr. Hindsley) (1908/1958)
Marche Militaire Francaise (arr. Lake) (1908/1913)
Mon Coeur s'ouvre à ta voix (tr. Niese) (1877/2012)
Morceau de Concert (arr. Respresas Carrera) (1887/2013)
Morceau de Concert (tr. Nelson) (1887/1979)
Orient et Occident (ed. Whitwell) (1869)
Orient et Occident (arr. Hauswirth) (1869)
Orient et Occident (ed. Reynish) (1869/1995)
Orient et Occident (arr. Schissel) (1869/2005)
Pas Redoublé (arr. Frackenpohl) (1887/1972)
Prelude and Processional (arr. Elkus) (1883/1957)
Second Movement, "Organ Symphony" (no. 3) (tr. Hindsley) (1886/200-?)
Sur les bords du Nil (ed. Hauswirth) (1908/2019)
Theme from "Samson and Delilah" (arr. Davis) (1877/1964)
Vers la Victoire (orch. Dondeyne) (1918/2014)

Resources

The Carnival of the Animals, Wikipedia Accessed 12 June 2020