Incantation and Dance by John Barnes Chance
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Boosey & Hawkes Concert Band - Grade 5
The first published work for band by John Barnes Chance, this landmark composition has remained an important part of the repertoire for more than 50 years. This completely re-engraved “Second Edition” corrects many of the errors from the original printing, and also restores the composer's important performance note from the manuscript. Featuring a wealth of melodic and rhythmic inventiveness, as well as the innovative treatment of the percussion scoring, Incantation and Dance remains one of the trusted standards in the wind band literature.
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Oh, so this is whats its SUPPOSED to sound like? *cries in highschool band*
𝙳𝚎𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚕𝚎 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚕
I feel you I had to play it in my senior year middle band and it was eye opening compared to this
There were always different arrangements distributed to the high schools, but they were always pretty similar to the original like this. Some variations were really slight - some notes in this were different than the version my high school band played. That was about it. And like @ Soprano Cicada said, yes, this song also made me want to throw my flute out the window. After our concert, my dad said this piece sounded "pretty typical for a high school band." Still don't know if that's a compliment or not.
OH OOF
I played it my junior year for concert/sight reading, and I actually had a fun time. Given I played the Bass Clarinet, so it wasn't the hell that the upper woodwinds had, but it was still a really fun piece of music to play. We got superior ratings that year.
I love how this piece utilizes the “creepy” range of the flute
Case in point - 3:50
@Harrison Gist doubling the piccolo
And clarinet
Irritation and Rash
Played this as tuba using string bass cues as well, can confirm.
Lololololololol I nearly pee-ed my pants when I read your, ahem, description of the title of this piece. Well done 👍👍👍
SO FUNNY!!!!! you made my day!!!!!
Lol omg this comment hahahahahahaha
He wrote the HELL out of those woodwind parts towards the end!
ikr geez!
But a lot of it is just chromatic and scales. As long as you know your technical stuff.
I played it last year, it isn't just chromatic and scales, it's got a lot of jumps, it is truly a nightmare, but the clarinet solo was the best thing. It was my first solo in our top level band.
I really liked the clarinet solo. It sounds so cool. I'm a clarinet player by the way. I don't even play this song in band.
My boy Johnny Barnes.
Ok so we played this piece (I have the awesome timpani part)
The percussion part with the whip literally says something like "If you don't hit each whip note as loud as you can, you might as well not play them at all."
So our ears are suffering through this piece pretty much every time we play it.
Yesterday during the final rehearsal, Noah (the one who plays the whip) noticed a huge crack in it. We don't have another whip (well we do, but it's not nearly as good or loud, and it's hard to play notes in rapid succession with it.)
"Try to make it so it breaks on the very last note." Sean, the band director said.
We get to the piece during the concert.
The whip lasts three notes, then the end snaps off on the fourth note.
We had to keep going, so Noah just kept playing, and little by little pieces flew off until the very end where we were left with half of a whip, a small pile of sawdust, and several wooden chunks.
It was glorious, we (the percussionists) took a picture together with the whip after the concert.
Oh and we all kept a piece as a memento.
I had the timpani part for this back in high school as well. I was Percussion captain and I was going over the parts and I was like "Yeah this part is mine"
Haha the whip part seems to make good stories. Our band had a small hand held whip but it wasn’t loud enough so the band director got a few of us to fashion a 5 foot tall contraption that just slammed two wooden planks into each other. The judges at the evaluations definitely didn’t see it coming :D
I love it!! As a fellow percussionist, those moments are unforgettable! I had the claves part myself. Our high school band also played "Variations on a Korean Folk Song" by John Barnes Chance. Once again, there was no shortage of percussion parts. Our director knew how to take advantage of a 15-member percussion section. Anyway, there was a temple block part on that piece also. At the last performance of that year, the guy playing the temple block part smashed the top temple block on the very last note of the very last performance of the year!! We got new ones the next year. The synthetic fiberglass kind.
I also had the timp part, we played it in concert and state, in 1977
Man our percussionitst was completly off with the whip at the start during the actual concert. Like the worst part was that he knew he was off, and our band director was glaring daggers at him and he kept right on playing it wrong.
Finally I see a piece where trombones have a melody with 16th notes in it.
Yes, and its killing me getting that part down crisp and clean. But the sound!
John Barns-Chance wrote this as a tone poem.
The beginning, a conjurer is summoning benign spirits, but then brings forth a malevolent one.
The malevolent entity takes possession of the conjurer, going into a wild and unnatural dance.
A brief pause, the conjurer thinks it's over, only to start again, more violently.
The possession is released, and the conjurer collapses in exhaustion.
Seeing this just makes me enjoy the song even more now
I listened to this song as our band considered playing this piece this year. We decided to pick Clifton Williams Symphonic Dance No. 3 “Fiesta”. After reading your comment and listening again I have never been able to appreciate a song more for what it’s worth. The story seems so clear after you shared it.
Thank you for this❤❤❤❤❤
We are doing this for the spring concert and everyone was shocked after we listened to this. Everyone was dead silent afterwards and the band teacher muttered over the microphone, yeah, you need to start practicing, like, now 😂
EDIT: This comment aged poorly, Covid came right after and we lost everything as we knew, when we finally returned to concerts in Winter of this year. The song was scrapped and I never got the chance to play it as I graduated in June…. What a run though to say the least !
Jake Rothman bass trombone is the best part..just saying😂
Best part is when you see percussionists fighting the whip and timpani parts
Felt that
I play alto sax and my band teacher just did that to us😅
:((
A clarinet at the end: just move your fingers really damn fast
XD
This but unironically
That's kinda what alot of these hard pieces are. Honestly although I'm a guy even if I wasn't I would never want to play the flute. The competition is way too high for me.
So true, it may look hard but it's just a chromatic scale
flute, too 😀
I played bass clarinet for this during high school. Gotta love the several thousand measures of straight whole notes 😂
same
Currently playing the contra part rn 😂
This piece had it all for the bass clarinets, from the ten thousand years of whole notes, to the multiple measure long sixteenth note runs. To this day, this is my favorite piece of music I have played in a concert setting.
Such a great recording of this piece. Bass Clarinet memories from high school and College State Band in VA, circa 1975-1981
Played this in high school over 40 years ago and I can still remember the fingerings to some of the clarinet parts. Love this piece!
My band director literally handed this out to us today and I... I'll do my best.
God, those runs kill me as a flute player; the easiest part is that solo (plus it’s so fun to play)
Hailey & Elijah Vlogs Omg same we were playing it in rehearsal and most of the woodwinds dropped out on the runs me (a flute player) and two other flutes were playing and maybe one clarinet it’s sounded like crap but we stuck through the end tho
the flute solo is destroying me tbh 😅
I jus started playing flute in august of 2021 and jus looking at the runs I get exhausted
What solo
As a tuba player, holding that cursed note at 1:35 felt like an eternity, it blew until 2:08 came
Yeppp same to a tuba person
I feel your pain
My director made me hold it out even though it ain’t written, Bass Trombone here
This is the best recording on TH-cam. Really conveys the importance of the bass instruments. Love how bass trombones, tuba etc really lay into those bottom notes in the middle portion, so much soul. With percussion they strongly lay out the groove.
It's not really a recording, I'm pretty sure it's just software.
Hal Leonard has a band, and they played this. It just sometimes sounds like a computer because they sometimes don’t play with too much emotional timbre behind the parts. This is because they pope out tons of pieces a week. You can tell it’s real by hearing the varying vibrato in the flute at the beginning
Listen to Arabesque
Javaughn Beaton well yeah they sometimes put out great sounding pieces ;)
Actually ... This is the Keystone Wind Ensemble from their Pageant CD. I played in the percussion section on the recording.
I love the song but attempting to play it makes me want to throw my flute out the window.
Same
I FEEL YA 500%
I can relate to this every way possible
Soprano Cicada saying this, in those very low ranges of the flute, there is no such thing as “soft” (p) or “medium soft” (mp) You have to play loud.
So true tho but i love the song so much
The Bass Trombone and Contrabass Clarinet shape this entire piece :)
Ben Fleishman french horns*
@@splodinatekabloominate846 no that goes for bassoon.
*Plus tuba*
Mason Abney that was a constant in all of Mr. Chance’s compositions. He involved every section with challenging yet rewarding parts and many times each section was featured and played alone. You couldn’t hide
YAAAAAAAAAS BT and Contra all the way. Also that damn slapstick.
It's a nice song to listen to but I want to cry every time I play it
Incantation and Dance? Don’t they mean Intonation and Chance?
Ahem woodwind runs
Dude that was cleverrrrrrrrrrrr
My High School band director thought it would be a good idea to sight read this piece to practice sight reading. We did OKAY but- really?!?!
Sight read?? Was/Is your director ok?
One of my favorite band pieces ever. There are no bad parts. Especially love the low voices, flutes, and percussion carrying it all!
Proud slapstick player. Jamesville - DeWitt HS 1967 - 1970.
well let’s put it this way, my bands first run through of this song was...interesting.
We played this my senior year in high school. I played the whip. At 5:54, there's the one whip solo. With the momentum building, everything played quietly until the LOUD crack of the whip....and I fricking MISSED IT!! My band director was furious. He just raised his head and stared at me with look of anger on his face. I thought I saw a little steam coming out of his ears. I'd never missed it before...until that day..
My all time favorite song we played in high school. Was so damn exciting hearing it all come together.
Only pieces I like better are Rocky Point Holiday, and perhaps Ghost Train Tryptych.
Yeahhh so I’m playing this in middle school.....
@@sidneydong6535 dang, respect for you!! I am a senior, and am still struggling to master the runs towards the end (I play clarinet)
@@sidneydong6535 me too
Love the flute solo so happy to finally hear a decent flute solo!
listen the l'arabesque it haves a excellent flute solo
yeah arabesque is REALLY good
Lark in the clear air has a phenomenal flute solo
Abby Zombek in most versions of the piece it’s not actually not a solo
*Not actually a solo
I remember playing this piece in the Boulder (Colorado) Concert Band in the 1980s. At the concert, we nearly lost it at one point, but the director merely focused his beat to a fine point, we watched him and focused likewise, and we finished in good form but on the edge of our seats! This is not a piece where you can afford to lose focus! Yet when it's done well, the audience leaps to their feet. :)
I agree
I remember playing this song in my high school symphonic band as well. I loved it! #ClarinetNation : )
I too played Incantation and Dance in my high school wind ensemble in the early 1980s. I played French horn. This piece can certainly electrify an audience. It's a challenging work but also an exhilarating one.
Played it at PRHS this year in Monument, Colorado
"FOUR?! GRADE FOUR?! I'LL SHOW THEM!" *adds 32 more measures of flute trills, octave jumps for high winds, whip as an instrument, and ridiculous falls* "EAT THAT GRADE FOUR! GIMME THAT 5!" - JBC
Our band is playing this this year for our spring concert and I get to play the Timpani part! Like/Comment if you have played this song before.
Gabriel Harrison go perc !!! 😻😻😻😻😻
i got timpani rn 😭
Gabriel Harrison timpani as well
KPOPSUGAH! I am on first alto sax part.
im playing piccolo........ cant wait too die!
The solos remind me of puzzle pieces being fit together to make one awesome piece
Good ear!
All the puzzle pieces, though, are essentially the same 3-4 parts repeated throughout the piece, only played by different instruments at difference times. Still, like you said, Billy, it all fits together to make one awesome piece.
This song is the Vietnam of Band Music.
The award for making me cry in a practice room goes to this piece
Haven't heard this in 40+ years.
Great idea, showing the score.
Let me tell you, the bass trombone part is equal parts torture and eternal happiness.
Having played bassbone for this song? 1000% agreed.
I'm playing second trombone
I’m 2nd trombone (I’m in 7th grade) and my band director gives me bass trombone parts to pieces because I have a limitless range when it comes to low notes and I’m just on a normal pedal trombone and he said next year since our bass trombone will be going to high school I can be bass trombone and I’m so excited
I played 3rd trombone on this in high school and let me tell ya, you get REALLY good at those pedals after playing them so long so loud. And it truly is... a “blast” 😂😂 I can play my low range louder than anyone else I know now lol
bass clarinet solos? in my music? its more likely than you think
I played this on bass clarinet and it’s one of my favorites.
@@fsab1423same but learning it was a pain
played this 3 times in the 80s . love the fact the score is on screen. thank you for posting
I've had good fortune to conduct it with a great wind ensemble. So hard!! Focus is a must, do not lose the beat for an instant!!
We were gonna play this in band but the band director decided we weren’t skilled enough and I’m so bummed:( I play the flute and I was so excited for that intro...
That happened to me with Blue Shades! We actually did play this piece my sophomore year and WOW
the dance melody at the end is jamming. can listen to that all day
i can do this all day- Steve Rogers 2012 and 2019 and 2016 and 1942
3:24 bass clarinet soli
5:43 bass clarinet solo
OMG THE ENDING BRO ITS THE BEST PART
BASS CLARINET BUDDY YOOOO! This piece was probably my favorite high school memory, and as I'm heading out this year, I'm revisiting all the pieces that I played... Brings a tear to me eye
@@giganerd896I just finished this piece before we went into spring break :3
this is one of the more perfectly written concert band songs. Barnes Chance had a lot of these, along w Claude T Smith & Clifton Williams.
I play alto sax and when playing this two years ago, tore a tendon in my pinky while playing it
Bari Sax player here.... mine is currently in extreme pain and our band just started playing today
each time i listen to it i get more and more convinced that this sounds like a Tim Burton movie lol
also i'm playing the 1st Bb clarinet it's not too bad! just a lot of runs that seem like scales at first but...to everyone's dismay are NOT scales
(they probably are i'm just bad at identifying them tbh)
yulpiewsert1 they are definitely not scales lol, I’m playing this now
Theyre scales of sorts
Man I am in love with the bassoon part at 2:46 👏💕
We played this piece in high school in the spring of 1988 at State Contest. I can't believe it but I still have the blank cassette that was used to record that spring's show! I was going to comment on how different this version was than the one we played until I saw that this is the "Second Edition". All of those flute runs towards the end are new. I had the all important clave part that kicked off the killer percussion sections. I was a lowly freshman and had never played the claves in a piece. The first day we practiced this our band director came over to show me how to properly hold and play the mighty clave. When I handed him those pieces of rosewood, they were covered in sweat!! From my palms... I just knew he was gonna crack a joke about it but thank God he didn't.
I love finding these professional recordings of pieces I played in band back around '90.
we played this for NYS ajudication in 72 as our optional piece, i can still recall the judges face when our band director handed him the score. Priceless
Horrible memories! We played this in junior high, yes I said junior high!
Band director: Thomas Kinsey
Location of Crime: Kirby Junior High Kirby, TX
Victims: the band, especially 3rd Trombones
This was tough, but we did it!!!
As someone who was "fortunate" to play 3rd Trombone, I swear, I looked at my mouthpiece and saw the remains of my chops! - No wonder Carmex was invented, just sayin'! 🙂
I think that the slapstick is he best part in the whole piece. I look forward to it the most.
Don't smash your fingers or something else with it. Ouch!
So wonderful to hear this after playing it nearly 50 years ago. Wish it was recorded somewhere
It is. Pageant by the Keystone Wind Ensemble. This recording is the cut from that disc.
@@willow19460 thank you!!
This song came to me in a dream from playing it back in high school. Such a great time and memory
My mom played this in her wind symphony in 1984 at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho! She was the bass clarinet player, and she won the award for this song!
The slapstick part looks like a nightmare. Jesus Christ...
I know, but still a nightmare.
I played that part in high school. By hitting an aluminum ladder with a plastic mallet. It was so rad.
Josh Johnstun Hahaha how funny
the slapstick part wasn't that hard ... my perc had a hard time reading the music like we could barely find our own parts 😂😂😂😂 i didn't play anything for this song so it sucked sitting on the side and seeing the rest of the perc having fun with this song 😫😫😭😭
It’s more being able to see it than playing it, so fun to play though as a band, doing it today for a competition 😬
just got back from region and this is what we opened with(best day to be a bass clarinet)
This was my favorite piece of music when I was in high school. It sparked my love of dissonance and odd counterpoint. Now that I'm all growed up (lol), I've written a piece of music for chamber winds with echoes of this one in it. I'll always love it. ❤
I tried playing those woodwind runs, but then all my fingers fell off
6:27 The moment that the tubas have been waiting for.
You're damn right, until you crack the note
He did an amazing job of writing for the entire ensemble - everyone gets a chance to shine, especially the woodwinds and the percussion. And I love how he uses that motif/theme at the beginning throughout the entire piece - I don't think I realized these things in high school, though.
I just got this music for a special ensemble I got into, and as the first chair bass clarinet, I have that solo..... time to play this in front of probably 1k people, wish me good luck :')
Also means I get to play the rest of this AMAZING bass clarinet part, since all the music I've played has hated on the bass clarinet :(
Update: absolutely nailed my solo, and the song was so amazingly fun to play, even if it didn't sound as good as this recording!
@@lilygravley1491 that's great! i'm glad you nailed it. were you nervous while playing it?
I’m playing this for concert season. And also as the first chair bass clarinetist I’m hella excited for my solo. BC is highly underrated
I know this piece is something of a concert band cliche, but it sounds epic enough to make a bassoonist (me) want to play those temple blocks!
this piece is truly one of the most magnificent pieces i have ever seen
More like I-can't-ation and Dance
One of the best recordings!
Performed this in 1971 in County Band (Berks County PA) under George Cavender (UMich). I never get tired of hearing it.
this is still one of the best pieces i played that had lots of percussion soli's 😻😻 i played the crash cymbals ... i wished i played the tempo blocks or the tambourine 😭😭
KPOPSUGAH! tambourine is lit on this song. literally nothing gets more lit than our aux percussion solos
i really wish my band could play this piece, it seems so fun. i’m a trumpet player and i’ve basically memorized the sheet music for it bc i want to play it that bad, but we can’t play it bc the woodwinds aren’t skilled enough :’(
I’m sorry. You’re absolutely right it is a lot of fun.
The percussion reminds me of a spongebob episode.
We played this in concert band my senior year of high school years ago. We did not have enough percussionists. I drew the short straw to join the section, so I never had to learn the flute part, but they made me do the whip. I wasn't used to standing out by myself, in a situation where if I messed up everyone was going to know it. Terrifying at first, but when I got it down, it was a lot of fun!
4:51 one of my favorite horn parts in a concert band piece. Nice harmony
one hell of a piece best concert band memory from high school it really was a legendary piece so amazing. played on my clarinet and it was super fun
Played this banger back in '05/'06 during my junior year. Straight superiors at district and state festival. MHS wind ensemble represent!
Hey I went to an MHS too and also played this but for my freshmen year :)
What MHS
our band director really made us play this in 8th grade *bruh*
That’s unfortunate I’m playing this in 9th grade this year
I was in the same boat.
Grade 5 music in 8th grade??? I’m in the top band and we’re struggling w this
Damn, I’m playing this in college
Sophomore year bro 💀
" if you aren't playing the whip as loud as you can then you might as well not play it at all"
Lol
Lol yeah. I found it so funny when I looked at the sheet music and it said that
I love this piece! Chance has some great works!
Played this in my high school concertban, clarinet third chair and this piece was a blast to play, thinking up picking up my clairnet again when I'm at college.
I played the flute solo on this my junior year in high school....2nd band. Listening to it now that's hard to believe. This piece is an favorite of mine.
Finally, all of the techniques ive learned from rhythmic bass clarinet music will be put to use
played this last year in my band but had the pleasure of seeing FSU PRISM Concert where one of the bands played a song called Sleighed Incantations which started as sleigh ride but when they used the slapstick it changed to incantation and dance. one of the coolest things ive seen ever.
Whip gang where you at?
Hey. It's a temporary placement atm, but it's fun
Not that I dislike the bass clarinet, I love it! But for crickey's sake, could you put a microphone next to the bassoons!!!!!!
i played this my senior year of high school, it was super hard to play but so much fun. I have loved this score ever since.
Wow is this taking a trip in the Way Back Machine. Remember playing this (trumpet) in high school.
Hated this piece in high school 20 years ago, can't get enough of it now
This was my favorite song from high school concert band-- and I played trumpet!
I played 1st clarinet in H.S. & we did this piece back in 1969, but now listening to it I wonder how.
Recall playing this piece in H.S...As the percussion section leader,I very much appreciated this piece...I believe that I played most parts at one time or another...Temple blocks,guiro,bongos,claves,maracas etc....Great memories of those days...
I remember playing this in my first year of high school (top ensemble (which a freshmen in there should be practically impossible (i showed them wrong along with a few others lmao))) and let me tell you something it was really fun.
Keep in mind though I was clarinet, clarinet 3 for this piece and even still it was hard as hell for me. I couldn't do the runs as well, but I sure did try. I have no idea if we served this justice, but all I knew was it was awesome to play, and it was...just SO GROOVY! When I would rest I would move and groove in my seat and it was just AMAZING!
I will never forget playing this because it was amazing to play this for a crowd of people, and it was amazing to know we got all superior with this song along with two other pieces! IT WAS SO AWESOME TO PLAY THIS I CAN NOT STRESS ENOUGH! I wish I could play this again with a full band. I still have the music for this absolute banger of a music and I can't help but to visit this video every once in a while to revel in my thoughts and remember the absolute hell and torture I went trying to play this, especially at the end. It was pretty fun!
I can't wait to play this again, well that's if I'll ever play this again with my clarinet.
My favorite piece that I have ever played.
It give great pleasure to be able to play this with my university wind ensemble
Playing this 2years in a row!
I played the song Incantation for marching band and then my BD gave us this for concert. This song makes me want to pop my trombone slide out and hit my bd with it
Played this at my all state band this year. All the tubas agreed to crank 1st partial Eb for the two big notes near the end, it sounded insane in the recording! We had to resist the urge to groove during the percussion concerto portions
we got handed this piece and Elegy for a Young American and played both of 1 time and my director instantly took up this and said we were playing Elegy and I cried inside cause my t-bones really wanted a chance to shine
i’m playing contrabass clarinet on this song for my band! it’s a great piece to highlight the bass instruments.
I love this piece!
FINALLY a good alto clarinet part!
EYYYYYYYYY IKR! You play Alto?
Such an awesome piece
We’re doing this for an honor band and we didn’t have enough percussionists so my band director and drum teacher are going to play with us. I don’t know weather to be terrified or excited but my band director can play the HECK out of some slap stick I’ll tell you that. I still don’t fully have my hearing back 😂
I love this song so much.
This song loves the bass clarinet
band directors hate them tho
This is fantastic!