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The document describes the musical form and elements in Saint-Saëns's "The Carnival of the Animals: Fossils". It uses a rondo form of A B A C A. Section A features the xylophone melody accompanied by pizzicato strings. Section B has a polyphonic texture. Section C features the clarinet melody which plays an ascending arpeggio at the end. The piece is in a major key and has its loudest section in part B. It ends each section with a perfect cadence.

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Fossils Student Sheet

The document describes the musical form and elements in Saint-Saëns's "The Carnival of the Animals: Fossils". It uses a rondo form of A B A C A. Section A features the xylophone melody accompanied by pizzicato strings. Section B has a polyphonic texture. Section C features the clarinet melody which plays an ascending arpeggio at the end. The piece is in a major key and has its loudest section in part B. It ends each section with a perfect cadence.

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Area of Study 1: Musical Forms and Devices

Fossils – Student Sheet

Taken from The Carnival of the Animals


Music by Camille Saint-Saëns

This piece employs a RONDO FORM (A B A C A) structure:

A 17 bars 1+8+8

B 16 bars 8+8

A 16 bars 8+8

C 15 bars 8+7

A1 8 bars 8

The Carnival of the Animals is a humorous musical suite of fourteen movements.


From the beginning the composer regarded the work as a piece of fun; however it
has since become one of Saint-Saëns’s best-known works.

Each movement represents a different animal or animals; 1) Introduction and Royal


March of the Lion, 2) Hens and Roosters, 3) Wild Asses, 4) Tortoises, 5) The Elephant,
6) Kangaroos, 7) Aquarium, 8) Persons with Long Ears, 9) The Cuckoo in the Depths
of the Woods, 10) The Aviary, 11) Pianists, 12) Fossils, 13) The Swan, and 14) Finale.
Area of Study 1: Musical Forms and Devices
Fossils – Student Sheet

1) What melodic device do the string instruments use to begin the piece? (Underline one).

A scale (a rising or falling pattern of notes, usually moving in step)


A glissando (sliding from one note to another)
An arpeggio (the notes of a chord played separately)

2) During the opening A Section, which of the following percussion instruments plays the
main melody? (Underline one).

Glockenspiel Xylophone Timpani

3) And during the same section, which of the following instruments imitates this melody?

Violin Viola Cello Piano

4) How would you describe the speed of this piece?

Allegro (Quick) Andante (Walking Pace) Adagio (Slow)

5) Identify the tonality of the A sections.

Minor Major

6) Identify the type of texture used during Section B.

Monophonic Homophonic Polyphonic


(a single melody line) (melody and chordal accompaniment) (independent melodies)

7) During Section C, which of the following woodwind instruments plays the main melody?

Flute Oboe Clarinet Bassoon


Area of Study 1: Musical Forms and Devices
Fossils – Student Sheet

8) At the end of Section C, this same instrument plays an arpeggio (the notes of a chord
played separately). In what direction does it travel?

It ascends It descends

9) Identify the tonality of sections B and C.

Minor Major

10) Which section of the piece (A, B or C) contains the loudest dynamic?

A B C

11) Apart from Section A, during which other section of the piece do the string instruments
play pizzicato (plucking the strings)?

A B C

12) Identify the type of cadence (chord progression) used to end every section.

Perfect Plagal Imperfect Interrupted


(V – I) (IV – I) (I/ii/IV/vi – V) (V – vi)

Total ...... / 12

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