Cage Dance
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General Info
Year: 2020
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Unpublished
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Cage Dance was written and dedicated to B. Michael Williams, who was a doctorate student and friend with Jack during their time at Michigan State University. Jack states that they “became good friends in the summer of 1987 as we were part of a study group preparing for the notorious Music History Comprehensive Doctoral Exam. Mike’s dissertation study was on the percussion ensemble music by John Cage, and I traveled with Mike to New York City to interview Mr. Cage for his research – an event I will never forget. When I heard of Mike’s passing, it hit me hard. At the age of 66 (in 2020), no longer am I losing teachers or older family members, I am losing friends and colleagues.”
Cage Dance begins with this slow, mournful, but also tribal and exotic, elegiac melody, first heard in the clarinet section, with other instruments joining shortly thereafter. This melody is very metric with time alternating between 10/8 meter and 9/8 of various subdivision groupings. This first section ends with solo presentations in English horn and euphonium as a musical “prayer”. The second section becomes more joyful and a celebration of life with a rhythmic, samba groove and the opening melody is now morphed into a happier, tribal theme. The percussion are then presented in a looping section with several instruments improvising over this repeated rhythmic ostinato. A new, rhythmic samba melody is introduced in the lower winds that is then transferred back to the earlier samba melody. The ending section is a reference to John Cage’s Amores (1943) which was written for percussion ensemble. The first twelve measures of the third movement (from Amores) are featured with the percussionists playing on graduated woodblocks of different tunings with English horn and marimba playing the mournful, exotic, tribal melody from the beginning of the piece as an ending remembrance to the composer’s dear friend.
- Program Note by composer
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- East Tennessee State University (Johnson City) Wind Ensemble (Christian Zembower, conductor) - 2 March 2023
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
All Wind Works
- AirLink (2009)
- The All-Seeing Sky (as arranger) (2021/2023)
- Aloft! (1997)
- Antithigram (1977/1988)
- As If Morning Might Arrive (1994/1996)
- Aubrey Fanfare (1998)
- Bandancing (2004)
- Be Thou My Vision. See: Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision
- The Beltway Jam (2006)
- Border Dance (2021)
- Cage Dance (2020)
- Canticle (1995)
- Capriccio (2023)
- Cenotaph (1992)
- Cheers! (1995)
- Chorale and Toccata (1993)
- Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision (1997)
- Chorale, Scherzo, and Dance
- Claw's Clause
- Cloudsplitter Fanfare (2000)
- Concertino for Solo Percussionist and Band (2009/2011)
- Concerto for Euphonium (as transcriber) (2018/2020)
- Divertimento in F (1995)
- Down East Fanfare (2003)
- Elegy and Affirmation (1994)
- Elegy for English Horn and Band (1999)
- Ellacombe Variations
- Encomium (2022)
- Ere the World Began to Be (1996)
- Escapade (2007)
- Essay on Yigdal
- Fanfare, from All Hail the Power (2002)
- Fanfare for a New Era (1997)
- Fanfare for the Great Hall (1992)
- Fanfare Furiosity (2018)
- Fanfare Saltarello (2021)
- Fanfare: Sinfonia (2003)
- Fanfare, Song and Fugue (2006)
- The Final Beguine (2018)
- Five Songs from the Hills (2010)
- Forefathers (2021)
- Four Maryland Songs (2000)
- Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Gavorkna Fanfare (1991)
- Held Still in Quick of Grace (1998)
- I Have a Rendezvous... (2017)
- In Final Obedience (1994)
- In the Silence of the Canyon (2019)
- In This Hid Clearing... (2001/2006)
- Infamy
- Iridium
- Irish Tune from County Derry/Shepherd's Hey (as transcriber) (1918/2021)
- Jigsaw for Tenor Saxophone and Band
- Junket (2015)
- Luther Hymn
- Melting of Winter's Snow (1999)
- Miniature Overture (2010)
- Nagrobek
- Navigating Cresson
- No Brief Candle (2019)
- Panhandle Prelude (2013)
- Parkway Jam Fanfare
- Past the Equinox (1989)
- Pastime (1999)
- Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
- Prayer and Jubilation
- Prayers for a Troubled Nation (2016)
- Psalm 150 (2013)
- Remembrance of Things to Come (1990)
- Repetend
- Ricercare (2001)
- Rondeau (2018/2023)
- Rondo alla BCP (2023)
- San Luis Snapshots (2016)
- Scenes from Terezin (2009)
- Skyline
- A Song of Hope (2013)
- Southpaw (2014)
- The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/2002)
- Stranger at My Door (2021)
- Suite Eugene (with Lynch Spittal, and Stone) (2026)
- Symphony No. 1 (2006)
- Three Organ Preludes (as transcriber) (2020)
- Three Places in England
- Three Sketches for Wind Band (2018)
- Two Overtures for Film (as transcriber) (1957/1967/2021)
- Uptick (2018/2021)
- Variations and Chorale (2017)
- Variations on a Bach Chorale (2000)
- With Trump and Wing
Resources
- Jack Stamp website. Accessed 4 March 2023