Cahokia

Jared Spears

Jared Spears

General Info

Year: 2005
Duration: c. 2:20
Difficulty: I (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Great Works Publishing, though Keiser Southern Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $50.00; (digital) - $50.00   |   Score Only (print) - $8.00

Instrumentation

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

• Bass Drum
• Bells
• Snare Drum
• Suspended Cymbal
• Tambourine
• Triangle

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Tribal sounds are unmistakable in representing this ancient Indian nation. The Cahokia were the prehistoric Indian civilization which built the impressive mounds in Illinois that still exist today. The music represents the images of war, peace, celebration, and mystery which the composer encountered as he wandered in the footsteps of the ancient ones. Images of this long-departed culture reappear in this highly descriptive music.

- Program Note from publisher

The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri. This historic park lies in south-western Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville.[4] The park covers 2,200 acres, but the ancient city was much larger. At its apex around 1100 CE, the city covered about six square miles and included about 120 manmade earthen mounds in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and functions. At the apex of its population, Cahokia may have briefly exceeded contemporaneous London, which at that time was approximately 14,000–18,000.

Cahokia was the largest and most influential urban settlement of the Mississippian culture, which developed advanced societies across much of what is now the central and southeastern United States, beginning more than 1,000 years before European contact. Today, the Cahokia Mounds are considered to be the largest and most complex archaeological site north of the great pre-Columbian cities in Mexico.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

• Louisiana: I
• North Carolina: I
• Texas: I. Complete

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

• Fremont (Calif.) Summer Music 2016 Concert Program, The 10th Hopkins Junior High School Music Summer Camp, Intermediate Band (Cary Nasatir, conductor) – 23 July 2016

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Adventurers
• Adventures (1979)
• Affirmation (1989)
• Africa!
• Allegro Fantastica
• Alleluias (1979)
• American Folk Hymn
• As the Eagle Soars
• At a Dixieland Jazz Funeral (1980)
• Axon (1986)
• Bold Journey (2004)
• Brass Ring
• Bravo! (2000)
• Briar Street Strut (2016)
• Cahokia (2006)
• Cantica
• Canticles (1982)
• Cantilena (1988)
• Cantique and Festival (1982)
• Castles of Llyr (1990)
• Chatham Overture
• Colorado Blue (2011)
• Colorama (1987)
• Colorama!
• Concerto for Percussion Section and Band (2012)
• The Country Express (1989)
• Crestview (1982)
• Cyber Quest (1996)
• Dance Celebrations
• Dawn Seeker
• Day of the Shofar (1981)
• Deo Gratias (1993)
• Diabolique (1984)
• The Dream Chasers (2004)
• The Drums of Blackhawk (2005)
• Dueling Drums (2007)
• Duke Street (1984)
• El Dorado
• English Portraits
• Fallen, Fallen is Babylon! (1977)
• Fantasia on Native American Music
• Fire Dancer (2006)
• For the Courageous
• Forest Park Overture (1979)
• Frenzy! (2015)
• From a Distant Star
• From A Schumann Album (1982)
• A Furious Fable (1980)
• A Gathering of Angels (1996)
• The Great, Awesome Go-Cart Race (2009)
• Gulf Island Sketches
• Heart of America Overture
• Heartland Sketches
• Heritage Hills (1985)
• Images Diabolique
• Incantation and Festal Dance
• Invincia
• Jazzers on the Loose (2013)
• Journey
• Joyous Alleluias (2000)
• Jubilation Overture (1999)
• Kickstarter March (2016)
• La Solana
• Legacy
• Lost Battalion
• March of the Martian Chickens (1985)
• March for Moderns (1965)
• Meditation and Festiva (1974)
• Mission Creek (1987)
• Momentations (1977)
• Monday's Song (2007)
• Moonmarch (2006)
• Mosaics (1975)
• Mountain Song (2006)
• Mountain View Portrait
• New Century Overture (1984)
• New River Suite (1987)
• Northstar Overture
• Novelette (1978)
• Of Honor, Joy, and Celebration (2004)
• Of Times Medieval (2005)
• Overland Trails
• Overture Fantastica
• Postcards from the Heartland (2010)
• Praeludium (1996)
• Praises! (2004)
• Prayer and Proclamation (1983)
• Pride of Lions (2010)
• Prologue, Dream, and Festa
• Prologue and Pageant (1972)
• Return to Bayport
• Return to Wind River (2006)
• Ritual and Capriccio (1981)
• The River Red (1996)
• Roaring River Overture (2005)
• Rondo Fantastica
• Run
• A Sacred Set (as arranger) (1983)
• Sansketch (1981)
• Scenario
• Silverwind
• Snow Child (2001)
• Sourwood Suite
• Spirit Canyon March (1998)
• Spiritual (1992)
• Spiritus!
• Spooky Hollow Saga
• Springfield Mountain (1984)
• Star Chaser (1995)
• Star Gazer
• Starmarch (1983)
• Stormy Point Overture (1989)
• Suite Romantique (as arranger) (1983)
• Sun Island (1988)
• Sunday Song (1985)
• Sunnygate March (2008)
• Symphonic Prelude
• Tales from Deep Space One
• Third Set for Band (1972)
• Thunder Mountain Overture (1982)
• Thunderstone
• Tilford Celebration (2005)
• A Time With Nicolas (2011)
• To the Spirit of Youth (2006)
• Treasure Valley (1988)
• Unleashed! (2014)
• Upon Wings of the Wind
• Wabash County Saga (1979)
• Waters of Myth
• Westwood Portrait (1980)
• Wild Country Overture
• A Wilderness Overture (1976)
• Wind Rider (2008)
• Wind River Portrait
• Winds from the Prairie
• The Winds of Change (2015)
• Windwood Overture (1985)
• Wings of the Morning
• World Tour

Resources

• Cahokia. Wikipedia Accessed 6 September 2021
• Spears, J. (2005). Cahokia: For Beginning Band [score]. Great Works Publishing: Grafton, Ohio.