Scarf Dance, Op. 37, No. 3

Composer: CHAMINADE, Cécile
  • Chaminade’s Pas des écharpes (Scarf Dance) comes from her Callirhoë: Suite de piano: Six airs de dance, Op. 37. Chaminade arranged this piano suite from her ballet symphonique, Callirhoë, an orchestral work that premiered on March 16, 1888, in Marsailles.1
    • Note that both the orchestral and piano versions of the Callirhoë suite are labeled Op. 37 in Chaminade’s catalogue, despite slightly different contents. Scores available here for comparison.
  • Throughout the 20th century, this was Chaminade’s most popular piano pieces.2

Sources

  1. Marcia J. Citron, “Chaminade, Cécile,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed May 19, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000005388.
  2. Marcia J. Citron, “Cécile Chaminace (1857-1944),” in New Historical Anthology of Music by Women, Vol. 1, ed. James R. Briscoe (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 243.

Cut IDs

13314