French Dances Revisited
General Info
Year: 2004
Duration: c. 20:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: G & M Brand
Cost: Score and Parts - $65.00
Movements
1. Overture – 2:39
2. Allemande – 2:50
3. Courante – 2:35
4. Sarabande – 2:50
5. Gavotte – 2:00
6. Gigue – 3:10
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II (II doubling Piccolo)
Oboe I-II (II doubling Tambourine)
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
French Dances Revisited is based on three bars from Bach’s keyboard prelude BWV 939 in C Major. Members of the commissioning consortium premiered the work in the United States in Minnesota on November 7, 2004, and in the UK by the RAF Central Band Chamber Ensemble under Sq. Leader Duncan Stubbs at Colchester a month later.
- Program Note from University of Oregon Wind Ensemble concert program, 9 March 2016
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Indiana Wind Symphony (Carmel) (Jay Gephart, conductor) - 7 October 2023
- University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Concert Band (Courtney Snyder, conductor) – 5 December 2018
- University of Missouri, Kansas City, Wind Ensemble (Joseph Parisi, conductor) – 5 December 2018
- University of Oregon (Eugene) Wind Ensemble (Rodney Dorsey, conductor) – 9 March 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- A Little Tango Music (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2020)
All Wind Works
- Adrenaline City (2006)
- African Samba (2006)
- Ascent (1996/2004)
- Awayday (1996)
- Awayday (arr. Wintringham) (1999/2015)
- Battle Symphony (1999)
- Bells Across the Atlantic (2013)
- Bermuda Triangle (1994)
- Bohemian Revelry (2013)
- Bohemian Revelry: For Chamber Ensemble (2013/2021)
- Bohemian Revelry (tr. Holland) (2013/2017)
- Bridgewater Breeze (1996)
- Candlelight Procession (2001)
- Concerto for Violin, Viola and Wind Ensemble (2022)
- Dances from Crete (2003)
- Downtown Diversions (2000)
- Eine Kleine Walzermusik (2009)
- Eine Kleine Yiddishe Ragmusik (2003)
- Elements (1998)
- Euphonium Concerto 1997
- Farewell (2008)
- French Dances Revisited (2004)
- A Little Salsa Music
- A Little Tango Music (2007)
- Metropolis (1992)
- Midnight in Buenos Aires (2007)
- Out of the Darkness (2023)
- Parade of the Wooden Warriors (1999)
- Pikes Peak (2017)
- Repercussions (2011)
- Scenes from an English Landscape
- Scenes from Bruegel (1994)
- Suite for Winds (1993)
- Summer Dances (2012)
- Sunrise and Safari (2006)
- Symphony No. 1 in C (2000)
- Three Way Suite
- Towards Nirvana (2002)
- Tranquility (2009)
- Viderunt Omnes (2014)
- Yiddish Dances (1997)
- Yiddish Dances (Chamber) (1997/2020)
Resources
- Gorb, A.; Bach, J. (2004). French Dances Revisited : (For Double Wind Quintet) [score]. G&M Brand: Aylesbury, Bucks.