Protean Dances (V.111)
Protean Dances, commissioned by
the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra (NJ),
is a dance movement for orchestra. It is not a suite but rather one
continuous movement in five distinct sections, each developing the
material presented in the previous part. The whole work is derived fom
the opening gesture, and every melody, harmony, and rhythm grows and
changes using a technique called perpetual variance; the result is a
unified yet ever changing sound scape which touches on many styles but
retains its own musical automony throughout.
In the five sections, the orchestra awakens to the rhythm of the
percussion section and tries, at first vainly, to join in the rhythms
and dances. Gradually the percussion overtakes the orchestra, and the
two once opposing forces become one unifed sound.
Protean Dances if scores for 2+1picc-2+1eh-2+1bc-2
4-3-3-1 timp+3perc, hp, str
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First and last pages to the
score to Protean Dances
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PLAY THE CONCLUSION OF PROTEAN DANCES
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