karendelees

Updated: April 30, 2025

A very strident phrase that plays in the brass Allegro molto, may be some hobgoblin, or rather an evil jinn, that holds the princess captive and wrecks the hero's vessel. The sea, too, plays a tempestuous part at the same time with the impish mischief of the jinn. In certain ancient editions they are called "Karendelees," i.e., "miserable beggars."

Philip H. Goepp - Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies