Collins-Cloud Dance (SP)-2B/2V/Cro./4M/5T/P/PN

Cloud Dance is a stunning and engaging work that begins by emulating the sounds of rolling thunder, falling rain drops, and gently stirred wind chimes in a summer rainstorm. It becomes a dance in which several central ideas are developed as if they were rain clouds being moved by the wind, shifting shapes and colliding into one another only to take on new forms and repeat the cycle. Eventually, the dance reaches a fever pitch in a crash of thunder, and the work ends as the storm does with the rain slowing to a stop and the warm summer sun beginning to peek out from behind the clouds.

Additional Information:

• Number of Players: 15
• Difficulty: Intermediate/advanced

Instrumentation:

• Player 1: Crotales (2 octaves), glockenspiel, castanets
• Player 2: Glockenspiel, castanets
• Player 3: Vibraphone 1
• Player 4: Vibraphone 2, lead pan, wind chimes
• Player 5: Marimba 1 (4.3 octave), Thunder Tube or auxiliary cymbal
• Player 6: Marimba 2 (4.3 octave), Thunder Tube or auxiliary cymbal
• Player 7: Marimba 3 (4.6 octave), Thunder Tube or auxiliary cymbal
• Player 8: Marimba 4 (5 octave)
• Player 9: 5 Timpani, suspended cymbal (inverted on drum)
• Player 10: Rain stick, guiro, bongos
• Player 11: Wind machine, tam-tam, cabasa
• Player 12: Suspended cymbal, China cymbal, maracas
• Player 13: Large thundersheet
• Player 14: Bass drum
• Player 15: Piano