{"id":623,"date":"2015-12-24T19:03:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T19:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/store\/shop\/black-bear-dance-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T16:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:12:38","slug":"black-bear-dance-horn-drum","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/store\/product\/black-bear-dance-horn-drum\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Bear Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Download a Preview PDF<\/h2>\n<p>Black Bear Dance for horn ensemble and drums &#8211; Preview (490 kB)<\/p>\n<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=3919\" 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=\"3919\" \/><\/form><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Printing is disabled for Preview scores.<\/p>\n<h2>Notes<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Black Bear Dance<\/strong> for horn ensemble in four parts is a jazzy, light-hearted, stomping piece for either a quartet or choir of horns, with African drums. It is fun to play!<\/p>\n<p>The composer writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In Black Bear Dance, I indulge my love of drumming, which really energizes the horn sound. 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jitterbuzz.com\/beard_bear.html\">Bear Dance<\/a> 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<p>The composing of Black Bear Dance 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.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a version for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/CatalogPages\/blackbeardance-clar.html\">clarinet choir<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Performances<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Listen<\/strong> to the premiere of Black Bear Dance. The ensemble is Esprit de Cor of Lexington, MA, conducted by David Archibald.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-623-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/musfiles\/pjm-blackbeardance.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/musfiles\/pjm-blackbeardance.mp3\">http:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/musfiles\/pjm-blackbeardance.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>In the summer of 2006, the horn choir at the International Horn Society Workshop in South Africa played Black Bear Dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download a Preview PDF Black Bear Dance for horn ensemble and drums &#8211; Preview (490 kB) Printing is disabled for Preview scores. Notes Black Bear Dance for horn ensemble in four parts is a jazzy, light-hearted, stomping piece for either a quartet or choir of horns, with African drums. It is fun to play! 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