Deerpath Dances
General Info
Year: 1996
Duration: c. 3:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: TRN Music Publisher, Inc.
Cost: Score and Parts - $90.00 | Score Only - $8.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoons
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-f;at Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Claves
- Cowbell
- Cymbals
- Jingle Bells
- Marimba
- Orchestra Bells
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Temple Blocks
- Tom-Toms (4)
- Triangle
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The wonder of imagination is that certain words, when you first hear them, produce mental images that stir the visionary juices of the creative process. Such a word was "deerpath". Now beyond the obvious, my imagination ran rampant thinking in "James Fenimore Cooper Mode": early colonial days, the opening frontier, the colonization wars of early America, specifically the French and Indian campaigns of the 1700's... Anyway, I was sure I had happened upon THE true and positive historical factor that would make this piece blossom into an epic picture of early America...But wrong! (Cue big red X buzzer, audience sighs in unison: disappointed "Ooooooooh!").
In talking to summer employees at Deer Path School, I discovered that it is named only for Deer Path Road, on which it resides ... and city officials had no idea why the road was so named . . . The most reliable source I spoke with said the name seemed "country romantic" ... a spark of revelation from the subdivision contractor, no doubt!
Well, Heather Pettit is excited about her band. She knows them inside out, high and low, and she wrote me about them and the expectations she had for the coming year. Her letters literally oozed with enthusiasm! And THAT was the factor that sparked this piece: an upbeat, rhythmic dance episode dedicated simply to the joy of a group of young musicians and teacher excited about a piece of music they can call their own!
And for you who follow, I invite you to take up the standard! After all, we all need a little bit of excited joy for life to be complete! So ooze some happy music of your own!
Commissioned by Deer Path Junior High School Band, Lake Forest, Illinois, Heather Pettit, director of bands
- Program Notes by composer
Media
- 'Audio: [https://trnmusic.com/deerpath-dances/ Reference Recording. University of Nevada Reno Wind Ensemble (Mac McGrannahan, conductor))
State Ratings
- North Carolina: IV
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Junior Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble (Boston) (Jared Cassidy, conductor) - 7 December 2021
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Abram’s Pursuit (1998)
- Adagio (2000)
- The Adventures of Kid Cam, the Rocketman! (2014)
- American Faces (1996)
- Ancient Dances (2020)
- The Armies of the Omnipresent Otserf (1981)
- Army Ants March and Boogie (2005)
- At the Strongholds of En Gedi (1996)
- Ballet Exaltare (1999)
- Ballet Sacra (1990)
- Battle Music (1990)
- A Call to Celebration (2012)
- Canticles! (2001)
- The Case of the Mysterious Stranger (1990)
- The Chase (2003)
- A Childhood Hymn (as arranger) (1862/1991)
- City Symphony
- The Cluster Bluster Fluster March (1991)
- Connacht Rhapsody (2017)
- Consider the Uncommon Man (1992)
- Deborah's Triumph/Jael's Revenge (2016)
- Deerpath Dances (1996)
- Divertimented Dances (2006)
- The Easter Symphony (1986-1997)
- Elegy on an American Folk Tune (2006)
- Elegy on an Evening Hymn (2013)
- Every Morning New (2002)
- Falcon Attack! (2002)
- Fanfare for Brass and Timpani (2003)
- Fanfare for Such a Time as This (2007)
- Fanfare for the Glorious Naycart (2001)
- Fantasy on a Gaelic Hymnsong (1999)
- Fantasy on Old Hundred (2019)
- Festiva Jubiloso (2000)
- Festival Music for a Silver Celebration
- Fort Canterbury March (1989)
- The Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron (1988)
- Gears Pulleys Chains (2006)
- Gmyway’s Revenge! (1994)
- Graysondance (1993)
- Gypsydance (1994)
- Havendance (1985)
- The Helm Toccata (1991)
- Hero Music (2005)
- Homage: Three Tapestries (1999)
- Hopak Raskolniki (1980)
- If You Must Doodle, Doodle Somewhere Else (1990)
- In Praise of Gentle Pioneers (1996)
- In the Spring at the Time When Kings Go Off to War (1991)
- A Jolly Walk in Hibbertland (1991)
- Kaylen Dreaming (2006)
- Kansas City Dances (1978)
- L'Arco della Vita (2021)
- Lake Canterbury Regatta (1993)
- Last Run (2020)
- A Little Adventure Music (2002)
- Little Fantasy on an American Hymn (2009)
- A Little Mystery Music (1996)
- Liturgical Dances (1984)
- The Maelstrom (2009)
- The March of the Combat Patrol (1991)
- March of the Grand High Poobah (2006)
- March on a Russian Hymnsong (2003)
- Mobbusters! (1994)
- Nilesdance (1987)
- On a Childhood Sunday Song (2004)
- On a Hymnsong of Lowell Mason (1990)
- On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss (1989)
- On a Hymnsong of Robert Lowry (1993)
- On a Southern Hymnsong (1993)
- On an American Spiritual (1991)
- On Ancient Hymns and Festal Dances (1988)
- On the Cul-de-sac, Three O’clock, Friday Afternoon (1999)
- On the Grand Prairie Texas (1989)
- On the Overland Stage to El Paso (2006)
- One Day in a Small Town (2004)
- Otserf II : Revenge of the Warrior Prince (2009)
- Partita Allegro (1997)
- The Peasant Village Dance (1990)
- Praises! (2001)
- Prairie Dances (1998)
- Prelude and Presto (2018)
- Prelude and Rondo (1976)
- The Pride of Buxmont (2000)
- Providence Unfinished (2002)
- Quiet River (2011)
- Reagan of Illinois (2011)
- Reagan of Illinois Part II (2013)
- Riding With the Frontier Battalion (2000)
- Scaling the North Wall (1990)
- Scootin’ on Hardrock (1999)
- Scrappy Bumptoe’s Picture Cards and Ragtag Diary (1981)
- Sinfonia Voci (1993)
- Solemn Hymn & Rowdy Dance (2010)
- Soliloquy (2020)
- Some Give All (2016)
- A Song of Moses (1999)
- Summer to Fall: A Love Song (2006)
- Symphonia Glorioso (2006)
- Symphonic Movement (2000)
- Texas Promenade (1999
- Til His Hand Grew Tired and Froze to the Sword (2004)
- To Live a Life Triumphant (2007)
- To Tame the Perilous Skies (1990)
- Von Grrrhart’s 613th Regimental March (1994)
- The War Trilogy: 1971 (1999)
- The White Rose (as arranger) (1917/)
- Zinphonia (2017)
Resources
- David Holsinger website Accessed 29 August 2021