Waterdance
General Info
Year: 1995
Duration: c. 4:40
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishers
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $82.00; (digital) - $82.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
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
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Picture a lake before sunrise. With Dawn, the myriad varieties of life in and about the lake slowly awaken and, in the heat of the day, skip and skate across the water as if in a frantic ballet. Thus Waterdance begins and continues until it experiences evening. Here is a beautifully crafted composition that brings us into the rhythms of life, the patterns of nature and an uplifting portrayal in sound.
- Program Note adapted from publisher
Commissioned by the Herricks High School Band and dedicated to the students, faculty and administration of Herricks (N.Y.) High School.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class B
- Michigan: Senior High C
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Sacramento (Calif.) State University Concert Band (Santiago Sabado, conductor) - 1 December 2021
- Redmond (Ore.) High School Symphonic Band - 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Sundance (Flex instrumentation) (2012/2014)
All Wind Works
- Aerius (2018)
- Broken Bow (2010)
- Canterbury Walk (1998)
- Chisholm Trail (2012)
- Chroma (2013)
- Communion (2007)
- Cross Creek
- Cumberland Cross (1995)
- Daybreak (2015)
- Dawnwood Overture (1993)
- Edgemont Festival Overture (1996/2021)
- Fanfare and Patrol
- Festive Tribute (2011)
- Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
- Fuego del Alma (2011)
- Gigue Française (2001)
- Glengarry Way (2005)
- Here Comes Christmas (as arranger) (2000)
- Home for the Holidays (as arranger) (1954/2015)
- Innisfree (2013)
- Irish Lullaby (as arranger) (1931/2018)
- Kivgik (2015)
- Leaning on the Everlasting Arms (as arranger) (1877/2013)
- Like an Eagle (ed. Andraschek)
- Nordanvind (2017)
- Platte River Hoedown (2014)
- Prairiesong (2004)
- Ravensgate (1996)
- Reflections on an English Hymn (1916/2009)
- Salute to the Cinema (2009)
- Shivaree (1998)
- Silversword (2014)
- Sleighing Song
- Storm Mountain Jubilee (2004)
- Sundance (2010)
- Sundance (Flex instrumentation) (2010/2014)
- Tir Na Nog (2004)
- Tum Balalaika (2018)
- Variations on a Sailing Song (2006)
- Waterdance (1995)
- Ye Banks and Braes (as arranger) (2012)
Resources
- Carl Strommen website Accessed 31 July 2021
- Perusal score
- Strommen, C. (1995). Waterdance: Commissioned Work [score]. Belwin Mills: Miami, Fla.