Works suggested for the theme: Native American
| Composer |
Work |
Publisher |
Other Info |
| Adler, Richard |
Wilderness Suite |
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Six movements; commissioned by the Reagan Administration |
| Ballard, Louis |
Scenes from Indian Life |
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Composer is of Native American descent |
| Ballard, Louis |
Incident at Wounded Knee |
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commissioned by Dennis Russell Davies for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra |
| Busch, Carl |
Chant from the Great Plains |
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Originally for concert band |
| Davids, Brent Michael |
various |
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Composer is of Native American descent, see website http://www.brentmichaeldavids.com |
| Deussen, Nancy Bloomer |
Night Forest |
Accessibility Music Publishing |
for Native American Flute and string orchestra |
| Hill, William |
Aurora Borealis |
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Tone Poem for Native American Flute and Orchestra, 27 minutes |
| Hoover, Katherine |
Stitch-te Naku |
Papagena Press |
For Cello and Orchestra; refers to a Southwestern creation story of "Spider Woman", who wove the world in her web. |
| Lieurance |
By the Waters of the Minnetonka |
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This theme was at one time a "popular" song |
| MacDowell |
Indian Suite |
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| Mauldin, Michael |
Dawn at San Juan Mesa |
Harmonic Services Group |
Anasazi site.
See composer's website http://www.mmauldin.com; many written for youth orchestra, and commercial recordings are available |
| Mauldin, Michael |
Three Jemez Landscapes |
Harmonic Services Group |
Three movements, fantasy on a Huron carol |
| Mauldin, Michael |
Enchanted Land |
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Suite for narrator and orchestra |
| Mauldin, Michael |
Fajada Butte: An Epiphany |
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Anasazi sun-shrine on top of the butte |
| McKay, George Frederick |
From a Moonlit Ceremony |
George Frederick McKay Music Publishing |
2.2.2.2-4.2.3.0-timp.perc-str, four short movements, uses Native American songs and dance melodies from the Seattle area, 16 minutes, available on a Naxos CD |
| Perlman, George |
Indian Concertino |
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See CD "The Music of George Perlman" Albany Records, Troy 239 |
| Perlman, George |
Indian Summer |
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ditto |
| Schickele, Peter |
The Chenoo Who Stayed to Dinner |
Presser |
Based on a Native American Micmac legend |
| Skilton, Charles Sanford |
Two Indian Dances |
Fischer (1917) |
2+P.2dEH.2,2/4.3.3.1.T.4Perc (BD,Cym.Tam Tam,Tri.,Rattle,Indian Drum,Xylophone).HP.Strings |
| Skilton, Charles Sanford |
Primeval suite |
Fischer (1921) |
continuation of Two Indian Dances; 3dP.2+EH.2+Bcl.2+CBn./4.3.3.1.T.3 Per.(Tri. Rattle,Indian Drum,Xylophone,Glockenspiel).HP.Strings |
| Tate, Jerod |
The Winter Moon Suite |
MMB |
20 minutes; with storyteller; the composer is of Native American descent |
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