The well known early piano pieces of the French composer in a version for mixed students ensemble. The melody was set into individual instrument groups in a broken movement, chord instruments play the rhythmic-harmonic accompaniment. The pieces are an effective introduction to Satie's extraordinary sound world.

Level: easy - medium

Inside: Allegro, Hornpipe2, lentement, Aire, Minuet.
The virtous trumpet and horn sections has been facilitated by new keys and some changes. The original is extended in some places (using of clarinets and percussion). The string setting is like the original, the repetitions were orchestrated in different manner to increase their colouring.

Level: medium

You can find the piece in many transcriptions, here a version for youth orchestra. Particularly attractive is the songlike main theme in unconventional rhythmical design. It is contrasted by a second, more conventional theme with an accompaniment in ostinato technique. The instrumentation (little symphonic orchestra) underlines these elements of composition and creates atmosphere. The piece is facilitated by the new key.

Level: medium

Last picture from the famous 'Le Carnaval des animaux' for youth orchestra. The piece starts with the galop, cancelled were the 10 introducting bars. Built in were only the sequences of the "Wild Asses" and the roaring of the lion. The original piano passages were substituted by adequate instrumental figurations. The scoring for chamber-music ensemble was extended to an orchestra. The result is an arrangement, which is in color and vitality equal to the original, but much more easy to play.

Level: medium

The most famous piece of 'Le Carnaval des animaux' for youth orchestra. The melody of the solo cello is played by all strings in three octaves, sometimes shifted by winds. The original piano passages were substituted by adequate instrumental figurations. The scoring for chamber-music ensemble was extended to an orchestra, the key was facilitated. The result is an arrangement, which is in color and vitality equal to the original, but much more easy to play.

Level: easy - medium

The repeated main melody was maintained in the characteristic original xylophone (cue notes in the clarinet). Many piano passages were substituted by adequate instrumental figurations. The scoring for chamber-music ensemble was extended to an orchestra. The result is an arrangement, which is in color and vitality equal to the original, but much more easy to play.

Level: easy - medium

You find the choral like ground melody in the strings, the recurrent cuckoo call was delegated to a wind unison. The scoring for chamber-music ensemble was extended to an orchestra, the key was facilitated. The result is an arrangement, which is in color and vitality equal to the original, but much more easy to play.

Level: easy

The original piano passages were substituted by adequate instrumental figurations. Sixteenth notes of the flutes create motion, Glockenspiel and metallophone make exceptional combination of sounds. The scoring for chamber-music ensemble was extended to an orchestra, the key was facilitated. The result is an arrangement, which is in color and vitality equal to the original, but much more easy to play.

Level: easy - medium

The solo of the bass was substituted by an unison of all strings and by adequate instrumental figurations. The scoring for chamber-music ensemble was extended to an orchestra, the key was facilitated. The result is an arrangement, which is in color and vitality equal to the original, but much more easy to play.

Level: easy - medium

A picture of the extremly tardy moving of these animals. The humour is in the terribel slow tempo of two very quick and well known melodies of Jacques Offenbach. The scoring for chamber-music ensemble was extended to an orchestra. The result is an arrangement, which is in color and vitality equal to the original, but much more easy to play.

Level: easy