{"id":125,"date":"2015-12-11T03:31:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T03:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/store\/product\/black-bear-dance\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T16:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:29:12","slug":"black-bear-dance-clarinet","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/store\/product\/black-bear-dance-clarinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Bear Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Download a Preview PDF of the Score<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Black Bear Dance for clarinet ensemble &#8211; Preview (509 kB)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><div class=\"sdm_download_button_box_default\"><div class=\"sdm_download_link\"><form action=\"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/store\/?sdm_process_download=1&download_id=3940\" method=\"post\" class=\"sdm-g-recaptcha-form sdm-download-form\"><div class=\"sdm-recaptcha-button\"><input type=\"hidden\" class=\"sdm-g-recaptcha-v3-response\" name=\"g-recaptcha-response\"\/><a href=\"#\" class=\"sdm_download teal sdm_download_with_condition\">Download Watermarked Score for Perusal<\/a><\/div><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"download_id\" value=\"3940\" \/><\/form><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Printing is disabled for Preview scores.<\/p>\n<h2>Notes<\/h2>\n<p>A jazzy, light-hearted piece for a clarinet ensemble or choir. Fun to play! This clarinet version is a transcription made by the composer of the original version for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/CatalogPages\/blackbeardance.html\">horns and drums<\/a>. That composition was supported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/projects\/guild.html\">Spindrift Commissioning Guild<\/a>. Read about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/projects\/prj_blackbeardance.html\">Black Bear Dance project&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The music can be performed as a chamber ensemble &#8211; one on a part, or by a clarinet choir.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instrumentation<\/strong>: Eb clarinet, Bb clarinet 1, Bb clarinet 2, alto clarinet, bass clarinet. An extra part for clarinet 3 is an alternate for alto clarinet. In a choir with few alto clarinets, Bb and alto can double to help the balance.<\/p>\n<p>Composer&#8217;s notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In Black Bear Dance for clarinets, I converted the drumming into a rhythmic drone that moves a little with the harmony, and moves around the various parts so no clarinet has to do the drum part for too long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The title comes from a line in the text for my choral piece &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/CatalogPages\/weaving.html\">Weaving the World<\/a>&#8220;: &#8220;and black bears roam the woods unseen&#8221;. The choral director rehearsed it a lot, looking for a natural declamation and in-tune intervals and the image of a secret dance of bears stuck in my mind. I worried that the name might imply American Indian, which the music is not. Then on the Internet I found the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jitterbuzz.com\/beard_bear.html\">Bear Dance<\/a><\/strong> painting of William Holbrook Beard. Aside from the fact that he was mocking stock-market bears, the image was just right.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Audio<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Listen<\/strong> to the premiere in June 2010. The ensemble is the adult clarinet choir at Indian Hill Music School, conducted by Paul Surapine.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-125-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/musfiles\/pjm-blackbeardance-clar.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/musfiles\/pjm-blackbeardance-clar.mp3\">http:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/musfiles\/pjm-blackbeardance-clar.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download a Preview PDF of the Score Black Bear Dance for clarinet ensemble &#8211; Preview (509 kB) Printing is disabled for Preview scores. Notes A jazzy, light-hearted piece for a clarinet ensemble or choir. Fun to play! This clarinet version is a transcription made by the composer of the original version for horns and drums. 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