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Cahokia
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
State Ratings
- Louisiana: I
- North Carolina: I
- Texas: I. Complete
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
- Adventures
- Affirmation
- Africa!
- Allegro Fantastica
- Alleluias
- At a Dixieland Jazz Funeral (1980)
- Axon
- Cahokia (2006)
- Canticles
- Cantilena
- Castles of Llyr
- Colorado Blue (2011)
- Colorama
- Colorama!
- Concerto for Percussion Section and Band (2012)
- The Country Express
- Crestview
- Day of the Shofar
- Diabolique
- Duke Street
- Fantasia on Native American Music
- Forest Park Overture
- Frenzy!
- From A Schumann Album
- A Furious Fable
- The Great, Awesome Go-Cart Race (2009)
- Heritage Hills
- Incantation and Festal Dance
- Jazzers on the Loose (2013)
- Journey
- Joyous Alleluias
- March for Moderns
- March of the Martian Chickens
- Meditation and Festiva
- Mission Creek
- Momentations
- Mosaics
- New Century
- New River Suite
- Novelette
- Overture Fantastica
- Praeludium
- Praises! (2004)
- Prayer and Proclamation
- Return to Bayport
- Ritual and Capriccio
- Rondo Fantastica
- Run
- A Sacred Set
- Sansketch
- Spiritus!
- Springfield Mountain
- Star March
- Stormy Point
- Suite Romantique
- Sunday Song
- Sun Island
- Third Set for Band
- Thunder Mountain Overture
- Treasure Valley
- Unleashed! (2014)
- Wabash County Saga
- Westwood Portrait
- A Wilderness Overture
- Windwood Overture
- World Tour
Resources
- Cahokia. Wikipedia Accessed 6 September 2021
- Spears, J. (2005). Cahokia: For Beginning Band [score]. Great Works Publishing: Grafton, Ohio.