This collection includes the popular title work, "Allegro appassionato," "Album" (consisting of 6 pieces), "Rhapsodie d'Auvergne," "Theme and Variations," plus six etudes, three waltzes, and six etudes for left hand alone. Authoritative sources. Introduction.

Expertly arranged Full Orchestra (Miniature Score) by Camille Saint-Saëns from the Kalmus Edition series. Danse Macabre (Dance of Death), Op. 40 was inspired by the poem of Henri Cazalis and composed in 1874.

Expertly arranged Full Orchestra (Miniature Score) by Camille Saint-Saëns from the Kalmus Edition series. Danse Macabre (Dance of Death), Op. 40 was inspired by the poem of Henri Cazalis and composed in 1874.

Expertly arranged Violin music with piano accompaniment by Camille Saint-Saëns from the Kalmus Edition series. This piece is from the Romantic era. Camille Saint-Saëns also transcribed this music.

Grades 14 This audition survival guide for teachers and students of all levels begins with one-octave major and minor scales to three sharps and flats. Two-octave scales are introduced subsequently, and the book concludes with three-octave scales to five sharps and flats. Two-octave blues scales to four sharps and flats are included as a bonus. Bowings and fingerings are not included in this workbook, which includes blank staves in the back for teachers to make suggestions. An introduction by Lynne Latham offers tips on how to practice scales and includes a lesson on scale construction and theory.

Saint-Saëns' Danse macabre has long been available in the composer's own sizzling transcription for two pianos. By contrast, the standard piano duet arrangement of the piece (by Ernest Guiraud) appears to have been derived from the orchestral score and is often disappointingly thin. An obvious solution was to make the present new duet arrangement, following the composer's two-piano version as closely as possible. As a symphonic poem Danse macabre was elaborated (in 1874) from Saint-Saëns' earlier song-setting of a poem by Henri Cazalis - a sort of French Tom O'Shanter without the chase, in which the devil, playing a mistuned fiddle, conjures skeletons from their graves at midnight into a macabre dance (Cazalis' profession as a doctor doubtless fed his imagination). Saint-Saëns' orchestral version was the first orchestral score to use a xylophone, in a tune that he later recycled for Fossils in Carnaval des animaux. Roy Howat