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.