"Danza de los Duendes" was composed for Argentina's Orquesta Sinfónica de Tucumán, whose music director, Eduardo Alonso-Crespo, led the world premiere in 1992, a month apart from the Pittsburgh Symhony Orchestra’s North American premiere with conductor Kirk Muspratt. The work’s title—an afterthought suggested by the composer’s student—refers to the malicious goblin-like creatures (los duendes) of South American folklore.

In 1996 Galbraith revised the work, and re-scored it as a wind symphony. The new "Danza" became her most popular piece, and is performed frequently by concert bands in North America, Europe, and Japan. In 1998 "Danza de los Duendes" appeared as the opening track on Klavier Records’ celebrated CD, "Dream Catchers", in a performance by the world-renouned North Texas Wind Sympony led by Eugene Corporon. In 2003 the composer transposed the work back to orchestral form.

Galbraith has penned a score of bright allure, its minimalistic touches deftly applied and its energetic personality balanced by lyrical finesse.
—Pittsburgh Press

...full of imagination and energy.
—American Record Guide