Bandancing

Jack Stamp

General Info

Year: 2004
Duration: c. 10:30
Difficulty: V 1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil a Kjos Music Company
Cost: Score and Parts - $140.00 | Score Only - $14.00

Movements

1. City Shuffle
2. Tango
3. Waltz
4. Slow Dance
5. Last Dance

Instrumentation

Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:

Bass Drum
Cabasa
Claves
Congas (2)
Cowbell (large)
Crash Cymbals
Glockenspiel
Guiro
Hi-hat
Maracas
Marimba
Ride Cymbal
Sizzle Cymbal
Snare Drum
Tambourine
Tom-Toms
Triangle
Tubular Bells
Shaker
Vibraphone
Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

In writing Bandancing, I wanted to fuse elements of popular dance to my own harmonic style -- to write a "suite of New American Dances."

The first movement, City Shuffle, is a type of funk with frequent meter changes. I intended to write a twelve-note tango bass line for the second movement, but only got ten notes out of it. The performance should by sultry and remind the listener of the dancer in the red dress in Lord of the Dance. The waltz has been a dance for 300 years or more. As a drummer, I loved playing jazz waltzes. The third movement is a jazz waltz featuring a mini-fugue. The fourth movement, Slow Dance, is more of a ballad than a dance and has some of the most poignant harmony found in the entire work. Last Dance includes a samba and a very difficult fugue. It is cyclic, as the theme from the first movement returns.

- Program Note by composer

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
Audio CD: VanderCook College of Music Symphonic Band (Charles T. Menghini, conductor) - 2005

State Ratings

Indiana: ISSMA HIGH SCHOOL BAND GROUP II
Louisiana: IV, V
North Carolina: VI
Oregon: REQUIRED BAND LIST 6A
Tennessee: VI
Texas: IV, V. Complete

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

University of Texas, Arlington, Symphonic Winds (Christopher Evans, conductor) - 26 February 2023
Kansas State University (Manhattan) Wind Ensemble (Jack Stamp, conductor) - 24 April 2022
United States Marine Band (Washington, D.C.) (Bryan A. Sherlock, conductor) - 10 June 2021
Ouachita Baptist University (Arkadelphia, Ark.) Wind Ensemble (Craig V. Hamilton, conductor) – 5 November 2019
University of Texas (Austin) Symphony Band (Joshua Gall, conductor) – 8 May 2019
Grand Street (New York) Community Band (Brian Worsdale, conductor) – 23 March 2019
Central Michigan University (Mount Pleasant) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (John Campbell, conductor) – 19 February 2019
University of Cape Town (Rondebosch, South Africa) (Alexander Fokkens, conductor) - 24 April 2018
Sacramento (Calif.) Symphonic Winds (Tim Smith conductor) – 18 March 2018
Virginia Tech (Blacksburg) Symphony Band (Dave McKee, conductor) – 18 February 2018
North Dakota State University (Fargo) Wind Symphony (Warren Olfert, conductor) 15 October 2017
University of Missouri (Columbia) Wind Ensemble (Brad Snow, conductor) – 22 February 2016
Foothill Symphonic Winds (Los Altos, Calif.) (David Bruce Adams, conductor) - 7 June 2015
VanderCook College of Music (Chicago, Ill.) Symphonic Band (Charles T. Menghini, conductor) – 16 December 2005 (2005 Midwest Clinic)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)

All Wind Works

AirLink (2009)
Aloft! (1997)
Antithigram (1977/1988)
As If Morning Might Arrive (1994/1996)
Aubrey Fanfare (1998)
Bandancing (2004)
Be Thou My Vision. See: Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision
The Beltway Jam (2006)
Border Dance (2021)
Cage Dance (2020)
Cenotaph (1992)
Cheers! (1995)
Chorale and Toccata (1993)
Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision (1997)
Chorale, Scherzo, and Dance
Cloudsplitter Fanfare (2000)
Concerto for Euphonium (as transcriber) (2018/2020)
Divertimento in F (1995)
Down East Fanfare (2003)
Elegy and Affirmation (1994)
Elegy for English Horn and Band (1999)
Encomium (2022)
Ere the World Began to Be (1996)
Escapade (2007)
Fanfare, from All Hail the Power (2002)
Fanfare for a New Era (1997)
Fanfare for the Great Hall (1992)
Fanfare Furiosity (2018)
Fanfare Saltarello (2021)
Fanfare: Sinfonia (2003)
Fanfare, Song and Fugue (2006)
The Final Beguine (2018)
Five Songs from the Hills (2010)
Forefathers
Four Maryland Songs (2000)
Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
Gavorkna Fanfare (1991)
Held Still in Quick of Grace (1998)
I Have a Rendezvous... (2017)
In Final Obedience (1994)
In the Silence of the Canyon (2019)
In This Hid Clearing... (2001/2006)
Iridium
Irish Tune from County Derry/Shepherd's Hey (as transcriber) (1918/2021)
Melting of Winter's Snow (1999)
Miniature Overture (2010)
No Brief Candle (2019)
Panhandle Prelude (2013)
Past the Equinox
Pastime (1999)
Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
Prayer and Jubilation
Prayers for a Troubled Nation (2016)
Psalm 150 (2013)
Remembrance of Things to Come (1990)
Ricercare (2001)
Rondeau
Rondo alla BCP (2023)
San Luis Snapshots (2016)
Scenes from Terezin (2009)
Skyline
A Song of Hope (2013)
Southpaw (2014)
The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/2002)
Stranger at My Door (2021)
Symphony No. 1 (2006)
Three Places in England
Three Sketches for Wind Band (2018)
Two Overtures for Film (as transcriber) (1957/1967/2021)
Variations on a Bach Chorale (2000)
With Trump and Wing

Resources

Jack Stamp website
Stamp, J. (2004). Bandancing [score]. Neil A. Kjos: San Diego, Calif.
Stamp, Jack. "Bandancing." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 6, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 583-589. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2007.