Name: THREE JAPANESE DANCES
Duration: 7 min 58 s
Channel: Bernard Rogers - 1933
Description: "THREE JAPANESE DANCES" is a song by Symphonic Band Performances. I- DANCE WITH PENNONS, II- MOURNING DANCE, III- DANCE WITH SWORDS. WRITTEN IN 1933 BY BERNARD ROGERS. CONSIDERED A MASTER ORCHESTRATOR, HIS COMPOSITIONS WERE A DISPLAY OF CHANGING TONAL COLORS. PERFORMED BY THE '80 ALL NORTH JERSEY H.S. WIND ENSEMBLE

THREE JAPANESE DANCES

Symphonic Band Performances

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I- DANCE WITH PENNONS, II- MOURNING DANCE, III- DANCE WITH SWORDS. WRITTEN IN 1933 BY BERNARD ROGERS. CONSIDERED A MASTER ORCHESTRATOR, HIS COMPOSITIONS WERE A DISPLAY OF CHANGING TONAL COLORS. PERFORMED BY THE '80 ALL NORTH JERSEY H.S. WIND ENSEMBLE

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Symphonic Band Performances

Contemporary band compositions, classical music arrangements, marches, jazz, symphonies, overtures. A collection from bands that I have played in throughout hi

Hello and welcome! "Symphonic Band Performances" is a compilation of recordings from several high school and college bands that I played in including the TMEA (Texas) All State Band, the TMEA Region X All Region Band, the Interlochen Arts Academy National Music Camp, the Cal Poly Tech Band, San Luis Obispo, the USAF Golden West Band, and recordings from my h.s. band, Beaumont H.S. and a few band recordings that were passed down to me. Also included are various All State groups and college and university bands. I participated and played in the large majority of these recordings. There are no professional recordings here and every recording is Public Domain. Most are available for free download. Each song has been converted from the original analog or digital source and edited with Audacity or Dak software. In the majority of these recordings, I play the tenor sax or alto sax, b flat or e flat clarinet, or directing. I was drum major for 2 years in high school, I have a BA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where I studied music ed, composition and theory. I had about 500 more recordings I was planning to digitize and upload, but this past Nov. 20th, my home was completely destroyed by fire, and all the contents, including all my music and instruments. So, this is it. Please feel free to post a comment here or on my member page. If you like, please become a fan by clicking "I'm a fan" below.

Song Info

Genre

Classical • Symphonic

Charts

Peak #188

Peak in subgenre #15

Author

Bernard Rogers - 1933

Rights

public domain

Uploaded

December 06, 2009

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MP3 12.8 MB • 224 kbps • 7:58

Story behind the song

This was performed on Feb. 3, 1980, by the All North Jersey High School Wind Ensemble. The conductor was Dr. Charles F. Del Rosso.

Three Japanese Dances was composed in 1933 for small orchestra. Rogers arranged it for wind ensemble at the request of Frederick Fennell, founder of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. This version was premiered on May 7, 1956. Rogers provides some basic information about his inspiration. 

"In the first, a "Dance with Pennons", the coloring is cool and gay, vernal and naive. Young girls weave to and fro, casting ribbons of silk. The second is a "Dance of Mourning". The Dancer is clad in white (the color of mourning). An elaborate group of percussion instruments combine in a complex bell sonority against a primitive motive sounded in the flute. A distant mezzo voice, unaccompanied, adds a central episode, and the first material returns. The final panel is a "Dance with Swords", suggested by the violent, distorted actor portraits Sharaku. The music is fiercely rhythmic, propelled by thrusting rhythms and highly colored percussion."

Rogers was considered to be a master orchestrator, and it is no surprise that Three Japanese Dances is a display of changing tonal colors. Structurally, Rogers tends to emphasize development of melodic cells and motives rather than outlining clearly defined large formal areas. There is a constant interplay between ostinati and melodic elements.
 
Bernard Rogers (February 4, 1893 - May 24, 1968) was an American composer. He studied with Goetschius at the Institute of Musical Art in New York (1921-2) and in Europe with Bridge and Boulanger (1927-9); until 1967 he taught at the Eastman School. His works include oratorios and psalm settings, five symphonies (1926-59) and other orchestral music in a finely coloured tonal style. His The Art of Orchestration (1951) is a standard work.

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