Ancient Dances

David Holsinger

David Holsinger

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General Info

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Publisher: Manuscript
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown

Instrumentation

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Errata

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Program Notes

Years ago, during the 1980s, I began a project to compose a three-piece “Forbarsti Tryplych” to honor, in a tongue-in-cheek manner, the three driving individuals of the University of Kansas band program. I actually completed two of them, the first being a tribute to Robert E Foster, director of bands, with a piece entitled The Armies of the Omnipresent Otserf, which went on to win the 1982 ABA Ostwald Award. The second piece, In the Court of H’Tamis M’dot for assistant director Thomas Stidham was completed, and as is the case with some compositions, had its premiere and last performance on the same concert! Just as well, since I was not particularly happy with it. The third piece just didn’t get started.

However, that second composition had an opening 30+ measures I always liked, so in the later months of my stroke recovery, I decided to salvage that opening and see where it might lead me, some 37 years later. Being somewhat a musical creature of habit, that solemn “ancient” polyphony developed into a thematic variation “dance” section. My creative brain has become so predictable. If it wasn’t so much fun, it would be pitiful!

- Program Note by composer

Commercial Discography

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State Ratings

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Performances

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• Lee University (Cleveland, Tenn.) Wind Ensemble (David Holsinger, conductor) – 8 October 2019

Works for Winds by this Composer

• Abram’s Pursuit (1998)
• Adagio
• Adventures of Kid Cam, the Rocketman!, The (2014)
• American Faces (1996)
• Ancient Dances
• Armies of the Omnipresent Otserf, The
• Army Ants March and Boogie
• At the Strongholds of En Gedi (1996)
• Ballet Exaltare
• Ballet Sacra
• Battle Music
• A Call to Celebration (2012)
• Canticles!
• Case of the Mysterious Stranger, The
• Chase, The
• Childhood Hymn, A (1991)
• Cityscape I (Festive Hours Neon Night)
• Cityscape II (Lonely Hours Anguished Night)
• Cluster Bluster Fluster March, The
• Connacht Rhapsody (2014)
• Consider the Uncommon Man
• Deborah's Triumph/Jael's Revenge (2016)
• Deerpath Dances
• Divertimented Dances
• Easter Symphony, The
• Elegy on an American Folk Tune
• Elegy on an Evening Hymn (2013)
• Every Morning New
• Falcon Attack!
• Fanfare for Brass and Timpani
• Fanfare for Such a Time as This
• Fanfare for the Glorious NayCart
• Fantasy on a Gaelic Hymnsong (1999)
• Fantasy on Old Hundred (2018)
• Festiva Jubiloso
• Festival Music for a Silver Celebration
• Fort Canterbury March
• Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron, The (1988)
• Gears Pulleys Chains
• Gmyway’s Revenge!
• Graysondance
• Gypsydance (1994)
• Havendance (1982)
• Helm Toccata
• Hero Music (2005)
• Homage: Three Tapestries
• Hopak Raskolniki (1980)
• If You Must Doodle, Doodle Somewhere Else
• In Praise of Gentle Pioneers
• In the Spring At the Time When Kings Go Off to War (1991)
• Jolly Walk in Hibbertland, A
• Kaylen Dreaming (2006)
• Kansas City Dances
• Lake Canterbury Regatta
• Last Run
• Little Adventure Music, A
• Little Fantasy on an American Hymn
• Little Mystery Music, A (1996)
• Liturgical Dances (1982)
• Maelstrom, The
• March of the Combat Patrol, The
• March of the Grand High Poobah (2006)
• March on a Russian Hymnsong
• Mobbusters!
• Nilesdance
• On a Children's Sunday Song
• On a Hymnsong of Lowell Mason (1990)
• On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss (1988)
• On a Hymnsong of Robert Lowery
• On a Southern Hymnsong (1993)
• On an American Spiritual (1991)
• On Ancient Hymns and Festal Dances
• On the Cul-de-sac, Three O’clock, Friday Afternoon
• On the Grand Prairie Texas (1989)
• On the Overland Stage to El Paso
• One Day in a Small Town
• Otserf II : Revenge of the Warrior Prince
• Partita Allegro
• Peasant Village Dance, The
• Praises! (2001)
• Prairie Dances
• Prelude and Presto (2018)
• Prelude and Rondo (1976)
• Pride of Buxmont, The
• Providence Unfinished
• Quiet River (2011)
• Reagan of Illinois (2011)
• Reagan of Illinois Part II (2013)
• Riding With the Frontier Battalion
• Scaling the North Wall
• Scootin’ on Hardrock (1990)
• Scrappy Bumptoe’s Picture Cards and Ragtag Diary
• Sinfonia Voci (1993)
• Soliloquy
• Some Give All (2016)
• A Song of Moses
• Summer to Fall: A Love Song
• Symphonia Glorioso (2006)
• Symphonic Movement (Holsinger)
• Texas Promenade
• Til His Hand Grew Tired and Froze to the Sword
• To Live the Life Triumphant
• To Tame the Perilous Skies (1990)
• Von Grrrhart’s 613th Regimental March
• War Trilogy: 1971, The
• The White Rose (as arranger) (1917/)
• Zinphonia (2017)

Resources

• David Holsinger, personal correspondence, October 2019
• David Holsinger website Accessed 8 October 2019