Geometric Dances

Roger Cichy

Roger Cichy

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General Info

Year: 2005 / 2007
Duration: c. 9:45
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Masters Music, through Keiser Southern Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $150.00   |   Score Only (print) - $20.00

Movements

1. Quadratic permutations - 2:10
2. Pentangular concoction - 2:34
3. Hexagonal undulations - 2:34
4. Heptomical Infusions - 2:25

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This fascinating and most creative work starts out in 2/4 meter, an eighth note is added to the meter of each successive movement (2/4, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8). The melodies are very musical and dance-like, with touches of the familiar throughout, and some jazz harmonizations for good measure. This marvelous work turns the math that you hated into the dance music that you love.

- Program Note from publisher

Commissioned by the Indiana Bandmasters Association for the 2005 Indiana All-State High School Honor Band, Geometric Dances is a four-movement dance suite written with progressive meters, 2/4, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8 (adding an eighth note to the time signature from the previous movement). Composer Roger Cichy chose this concept to exploit various meters and, in the case of the 5/8 and 7/8 meters, play with variations of eighth note groupings within a beat.

- Program Note from liner notes of Mark CD Geometric Dances

Commercial Discography

• Audio CD: Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Wind Symphony (John Raymond Bell, conductor)

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

• Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP I
• Maryland: VI

Performances

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• San Luis Obispo (Calif.) High School Wind Ensemble (Sharon Jeskey, conductor) - 25 March 2023 (2023 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Amazing Grace (as arranger) (1779/2014)
• American Band Salute (2009?)
• and make a joyous sound
• Breakthrough (1994/2000)
• Bugs (2000)
• Colours (1997)
• Divertimento for Winds and Percussion (1994)
• El Caballero (2000)
• Emblazoned Joy (2019/2021)
• Fanfare for a Festive Day (1996)
• Festival!
• First Flights
• Flowing Pens from Concord (2013)
• For Purple Mountain Majesties (2005)
• Galilean Moons (1996)
• Geometric Dances (2007)
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (as arranger) (2022)
• The Golden Baton March
• Hats Off (2016)
• In Exuberant Celebration (2009)
• Interpretations
• Maestro
• New Millennium, Different World, New Beginnings (2004)
• Pandemonium (2006)
• Quartets (2006/2012)
• Rachmaninoff Prelude (as arranger)
• Silhouette
• Sounds, Sketches, and Ideas (2002)
• T. Rex
• We Walked with Heads Held High (2006)
• Windsicle (2006)
• Wisconsin Soundscapes
• Wizards

Resources

• Cichy, R. (2007). Geometric Dances [score]. Ludwig Masters Music: Boca Raton, Fla.
• Roger Cichy website Accessed 27 October 2020