{"id":80,"date":"2012-01-27T09:31:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T17:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2012-02-05T14:32:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T22:32:19","slug":"decadance-three-dance-movements-for-chamber-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/2012\/01\/27\/decadance-three-dance-movements-for-chamber-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"DECADANCE, three dance movements for chamber orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"

I gave\u00a0Decadance\u00a0<\/em>its title in an innumerate state of mind, in which I simply miscounted the number of parts it has; I only remembered to count the five wind parts and the five string parts, and forgot the percussion and piano.\u00a0 I counted ten, and it is a set of dances, hence the title, along with the obvious play on words referring to \u201cdecadence.\u201d \u00a0Since there are actually 12 parts in the ensemble, it is obviously misnamed.\u00a0 Nevertheless, I didn\u2019t want to name it Dodecadance<\/em>, for fear someone would think it is a serial composition.\u00a0 So I stuck with the original title.<\/p>\n

Decadance<\/em> is a set of three dance movements borrowing from old and newer styles.\u00a0 The first movement, \u201cBossa Blue,\u201d alternates between 8- and 7-beat patters, and has a distinct blues flavor, with some moderately pointillistic elements .\u00a0 I think of it as a bent bossa, both rhythmically and harmonically.\u00a0 The second movement, \u201cCourante,\u201d is modeled after a common member of the 17th<\/sup>– and 18th<\/sup>-century dance suite, the French courante, with its shifting accents (between two groups of three and three groups of two),\u00a0 lyrical character and blurring of edges and textures.\u00a0 The third movement, \u201cCartoon Choreography,\u201d is a kaleidoscopic mixture of watusi and disco, with infrequent elements of boogie-woogie, fox trot, and warped jazz, and nary a serious moment.\u00a0 Think of some cartoon characters, sitting around the set after a hard day of shooting film and violating the laws of physics, who decide to dance awhile.\u00a0 They run into each other and aren\u2019t hurt, they suspend impossibly long in the air after leaping off tables, and one dance melds into another in metamorphic madness\u2026.\u00a0 Until at last, they all collapse in a heap.<\/p>\n

Decadance \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I. \u00a0Bossa Blue \u00a0 \u00a0[esplayer url=”http:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/I.-Bossa-Blue-EQ.mp3″ width=”200″ height=”20″]<\/p>\n

II. \u00a0Courante \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[esplayer url=”http:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/II.-Courante-EQ.mp3″ width=”200″ height=”20″]<\/p>\n

III. \u00a0Cartoon Choreography \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0[esplayer url=”http:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/III.-Cartoon-Choreography-EQ.mp3″ width=”200″ height=”20″]<\/p>\n

for chamber orchestra: \u00a0 Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, F Horn, Violins I and II, Viola, Cello, Bass, Piano, two Percussionsts (or one really busy one)<\/p>\n

Decadence was recorded by the Claremont Chamber Orchestra, and has been performed by the Azusa Pacific University Chamber Orchestra. \u00a0It can be performed with the five wind players, strings from 2.2.2.1.1 or more (ideal is approximately 3.3.3.2.1), a pianist, and percussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I gave\u00a0Decadance\u00a0its title in an innumerate state of mind, in which I simply miscounted the number of parts it has; I only remembered to count the five wind parts and the five string parts, and forgot the percussion and piano.\u00a0 I counted ten, and it is a set of dances, hence the title, along with the obvious play on words referring to \u201cdecadence.\u201d \u00a0Since there are actually 12 parts in the ensemble, it is obviously misnamed.\u00a0 Nevertheless, I didn\u2019t want to name it Dodecadance, for fear someone would think it is a serial composition.\u00a0 So I stuck with the original title. Decadance is a set of three dance movements borrowing from old and newer styles.\u00a0 The first movement, \u201cBossa Blue,\u201d alternates between 8- and 7-beat patters, and has a distinct blues flavor, with some moderately pointillistic elements .\u00a0 I think of it as a bent bossa, both rhythmically and harmonically.\u00a0 The second movement, \u201cCourante,\u201d is modeled after a common member of the 17th– and 18th-century dance suite, the French courante, with its shifting accents (between two groups of three and three groups of two),\u00a0 lyrical character and blurring of edges and textures.\u00a0 The third movement, \u201cCartoon Choreography,\u201d is a kaleidoscopic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}