"Barnum and Bailey's Favorite", often referred to as "The Granddaddy of Circus Marches", was composed by Karl King in 1913[1] and was published through C. L. Barnhouse Company.
[3] This has become his most famous composition, being called "the finest work written to celebrate 'The Greatest Show on Earth'"[4] and is one of the most recognizable marches of all time.
In the second strain, the melody starts out in the low winds and brass in a loud and quick fury of notes in a passage in F minor.
The melody for the trio is in the flutes, first clarinet, first trumpet, tenor saxophones, and euphonium and is played at a dynamic of piano.
The section repeats one more time from the break strain and the collective ensemble finishes the piece in a homogenized fortissimo ending.