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Of Ancient Dances
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 11:05
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: HAFABRA Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €180.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00
Movements
1. Incantation
2. Ancestral Chant
3. Song of Lament
4. Dance of War
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III (I div. a2)
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium (div. a2)
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III
- Bass Drum
- Bongos (2)
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Maracas
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-tam
- Tambourine
- Vibraphone (with motor)
- Wind Chimes
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This four-movement work explores the full gamut of emotions and styles. Movements include Incantation, Ancestral Chant, Song of Lament, and Dance of War. Powerful in scope with extraordinary opportunities for the entire ensemble to showcase its virtuosity!
- Program Note from Ohio Wesleyan University Symphonic Wind Ensemble concert program, 12 November 2017
Commissioned by and dedicated to HAFABRA Music, Louis Martinus, director.
- Program Note from score
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ad Hoc Wind Orchestra (Jean-Pierre Haeck, conductor)
- Audio CD: Ad Hoc Wind Orchestra (Jean-Pierre Haeck, conductor) – 2015
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, Ohio) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Larry Griffin, conductor) – 12 November 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Adirondack Festival Overture (2014)
- Andante con Moto (as arranger) (1816/2003)
- Bells of Christmas (1999)
- Blue Mountain Saga (1995)
- Bond, James Bond (as arranger)
- Cartoon Capers (as arranger) (2000)
- Celestial Suite (1989)
- Cole Porter Songbook (as arranger)
- Ellington! (as arranger) (2019)
- Escapades (as transcriber) (2002/2012)
- Euphonium Fantasia
- Excerpts from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (as arranger) (1978/2009)
- Fascinating Rhythm (as arranger) (1924)
- Firestorm (1992)
- The Imperial March (as arranger) (1980/2008)
- Irish Lullaby, An
- Irish Songs, Set No 2 (as arranger) (2004)
- Legend of Knife River (1997)
- Legends of Jazz (as arranger) (2012)
- Library of Congress March, The (as arranger)
- Mambo Greats (as arranger) (2013)
- Mancini! (as arranger) (2000?)
- March Creole (1995)
- North Bridge Portrait (2001)
- Of Ancient Dances (2015)
- Pride of a People (as arranger)
- Rhapsody for Flute (1996)
- Rhapsody for Hanukkah (1994)
- Russian Carol Variations (1999)
- The Schumann Suite (as arranger) (1997)
- Selections from "Into the Woods" (as arranger)
- Selections from "The Great Race" (as arranger)
- Selections from ''Sweeney Todd'' (as arranger) (1979/2009)
- Shipston Prelude (2000)
- Sinatra! (as arranger) (2011)
- Slavonic Fantasy (as arranger)
- Stephen Foster Songbook (as arranger) (1999)
- Symphonic Highlights from "Frozen" (as arranger) (2013)
- Tiger Rag (as adapter)
- Tribute to Louis Armstrong (as arranger)
- Uncommon Valor (1995)
- Wade in the Water (as arranger) (2001)
- Winterfest (as arranger) (2002)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Stephen Bulla website Accessed 19 August 2021