Kachina: Chant and Spirit Dance
General Info
Year: 1994
Duration: c. 2:25
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Queenwood Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $35.00 | Score Only (print) - $6.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Cornets/Trumpet I-II
Horn in F/Tenor Saxophone (optional)
Low Brass and Woodwinds
Percussion, including:
- Bells
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Tom-Tom, large
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This work depicts the supernatural being associated with ancestral spirits, the kachina, from Pueblo Indian culture. Here is a great musical and multicultural teaching piece with intriguing percussion and a plaintive chant that builds to a spirit dance celebrating the kachina's link between gods and mortals.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class D
- Georgia: II
- Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP III
- Michigan: Junior High C
- Oklahoma: I-A
- Tennessee: III
- Virginia: III
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Alabama Folksong Fantasy (2007)
- All the Pretty Little Horses (as arranger) (1998)
- American Folk Trilogy (as arranger) (1992)
- American Rhapsody
- Amphion
- And the Heart Replies (1992)
- Athenian Festival (1990)
- Atlantis (1986)
- Bach: Air (as arranger) (c. 1730/)
- Bach: Chorale and Variation (as arranger) (1994)
- Chant Fantastique (2004)
- Chorale Prelude (1992)
- Clouds (1994)
- Discovery Overture (1985)
- Emily (The Ghost) (2008)
- Equinox (2009)
- A European Christmas (1984)
- A European Christmas II (1985)
- Glory (2005)
- Greensleeves Fantasie (as arranger) (2005)
- Hall of Heroes (2000)
- Hieroglyphs (2003)
- Holton-Arms Fanfare (2001)
- Japanese Folk Trilogy (as arranger) (1996/2002)
- Kachina: Chant and Spirit Dance (1994)
- Kingstree Overture (2003)
- Kokopelli (2007)
- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (2008)
- Long Way from Home
- Madrigal for Band (as arranger) (1994)
- Masques (1989)
- A Medieval Quest (2008)
- Neon (2004)
- The Power of One
- Prelude to a Festival (1983)
- Prometheus Overture (1984)
- Rachmaninoff Prelude (as arranger)
- The Red Balloon (1993)
- Riversong (2005)
- Satie: Three Gymnopédies (as arranger) (1888/1993)
- Sea Song Trilogy (1986/2014)
- Spirals (1995)
- Syntonos (1986)
- Tis a Gift (1997)
- To Keep Thine Honor Bright (2001)
- Twas in the Moon of Wintertime (as arranger) (1987)
- Variations and Theme (1979)
- Victorious (2006)
- The Wexford Carol (2002)
- Windsor Overture
- Wolsey's Wilde (as arranger) (2001)
Resources
- Anne McGinty website Accessed 12 September 2021
- McGinty, A. (1994). Kachina: Chant and Spirit Dance [score]. Edmondson & McGinty: [U.S.]
- Miles, Richard B., and Larry Blocher. 2002. Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. Volume 4. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 169-173.