Prairie Dance
General Info
Year: 2013
Duration: c. 4:55
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Wingert Jones
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $70.00; (digital) - $70.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
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
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-I
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Wood Block
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Experience the colorful life on the High Plains through this vivid and lively musical portrait of mid-America. The spirited introduction exhibits a brisk and joyful nature with the vastness, beauty and loneliness of the open prairie portrayed as the piece unfolds. The panoramic vista then closes with an energetic recap of the opening material.
Prairie Dance was composed for the Emporia State University High School Honors Band in Emporia, Ks.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Eastern Shore Wind Ensemble (Chestertown, Md.) (Charles Thai, conductor) – 15 March 2020 (scheduled, but concert canceled)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Jet Stream (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- Tesla's Dream (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
All Wind Works
- Absolutely Sousa (as arranger) (2017)
- Aegean Symphony (2003)
- Burnin'! (2016)
- Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble (2006)
- Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble (2012)
- Dance Diabolique (2006)
- Dark Prophecy (2014)
- Detonation (2020)
- Divertimento for Eleven Wind Instruments (2004)
- Fanfare for a Celebration (2011)
- Fanfare for a Festive Occasion (2002)
- Heavy Metal Suite (Brass Ensemble) (2003)
- Heavy Metal Suite (Wind Ensemble) (2003/2006)
- Jet Stream (2016)
- Jet Stream (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- Joy Ride (2018)
- Joyous Overture (2002)
- Juggernaut (2015)
- La Belle Ame (2020)
- Luminance (2015)
- Nemesis (2013)
- Overture for the Heroes (2021)
- Prairie Dance (2013)
- Quintology (2010)
- Revolution (2017)
- River of Fire (2019)
- Shock Wave (2014)
- Sirocco (2018)
- Tesla's Dream (2018)
- Tesla's Dream (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)