Name: Professor Daniel Bukvich Composition Collection Data
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Title	Date	Instrumentation	Description
Flag Day Parade		Concert Band	Written for 100 anniversary of the Twin Falls Municipal Band. Many composers comissioned for this event. Bukvich used this comission as an excercise to write in the style of John Phillip Souza.
Hanukkah Shepherd's Song		String orchestra	All of Hannukah pieces composed by Bukvich are in a set to be performed at some point. This piece was composed for the Holiday Concert to fill a void of Hannukah music.
Three Native Songs		Concert band	Commissioned by Helena, Montana for Grade School Orchestra. No melodies or inspiration from the musical history of indigenous peoples of the Americas were used, rather common themes and imagery from indigenous peoples of the Northwest United states inspired the piece.
Lullanova		Jazz combo	Written for Palouse Jazz Project.
Mainspring		Jazz combo	Written for Palouse Jazz Project.
In Memoriam Dresden		Wind ensemble
Ballroom Portraits		Wind ensemble	Comissioned by family of a long time Idaho music educator, Walter Howard Snodgrass. Based on song Snodgrass wrote for his wife in the style of Amercan Song Writer, Robert Russell Bennet. The names of the movements are titled after the inventors of the following dances: The Castle Walk, Fox's Trot, The Charleston, The Motion Picture Waltz, and The Lindy Hop.
Symphonic Movement		Wind ensemble	Originally comissioned for Idaho All State Band. Should be difficult and a once in a lifetime experience. Write a piece that looks unplayable for the all state band kid.
Dedication		Choir	This Hannukah piece was written for the Holiday Concert.
Agincourt Hymn	1986-01-26	Wind Ensemble	Written for Wind Ensemble for opening IMEA. First time. Agincourt Hymn, John Dunstable. Wanted singing, element of movement, brass section moving forward etc. Wanted to explore insane chimes writing. Jane Pasco at Butte Highschool-- played French Horn, no french horns. Writing percussion pieces. The whole middle section is Danny Boy upside down. Jane Pasco drum cadence, that's why you should have. When performed this piece, lot of rehearsal. Tenor drums. End of the piece, the entire audience stood up. Stomping tubes.
Kinetic Code	1990	Piano and percussion	Half of the Bartok Sonata instrumentation for Piano and Percussion. One of two companion pieces for the Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Written for Jennifer Coiman and Andrew Stallcop for a senior recital at the University of Idaho. Piano and percussion, as opposed to Piano with Timpani. The timpani/piano companion piece has never been composed. This piece has been played extensively around the country as a recital piece.
Three Anna Akhmatova Songs	1996	Solo voice and piano	Written for Jennifer Hudson, it uses Anna Akhmatova poems as the text material.
Meditations on Writings by Vasily Kandinsky	1996	Wind ensemble	Written for Jeff Funderburk at the University of Iowa, this comission was presented with the challenge of creating a score that an audience would have an enjoyable time following along with. Each movement is based off painting conventions by Wassily Kandinsky. The work has seen hundreds of performances around the world.
Buffalo Jump Ritual	2000-08-10	Concert Band	Bukvich was approached by Bill Larson to write a comission for the Montana Music Educators Association (MMEA). Larson took Bukvich on a trip south of Great Falls to the Ulm Buffalo Jump Site. In growing up in Montana, Bukvich had heard of these sites throughout his life, but this excursion with Larson was his first time visiting one. Larson and the comissioning board opted for simple percussion that could be performed by any band program in the state of Montana; therefore, no mallet percussion was utilized for this piece. In planning this piece, Larson wanted to get the All State Band to rehearse the piece at the Buffalo Jump site, but "the band world isn't cool enough to figure out how to make that happen," according to Bukvich. Since its original premiere at MMEA 2000, it recieves an estimated hundereds of performances a year.
Night Poem	2003	Jazz band or combo piece. Scored for a flugelhorn soloist.	Composed for the New Hampshire All State Jazz Band. Was asked to write a ballad for the band fest.
Sonata for Flute and Piano	2005-04	Solo flute and piano	Written for two students Kristen McMullen and Sarah Simpkins for their senior recital.
Rock Music	2008	Jazz Choir piece, can be played with or without percussion accompaniment.	This piece was written to help individual students study for their Geology exam. This course was taught by Mickey Gunter at the University of Idaho. Somebody mentioned that they were going to study for this test while leaving Jazz Choir, and wanted Bukvich to write a piece to facilitate their studies. This piece was performed at Gunter's reitrement and the piece was used as an extra credit assignment in Gunter's class for years. The piece contains a many "I vi ii V" progressions and contextual uses of minor progressions as these were topics discussed Bukvich's First Year theory class.
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano	2008-04	Solo trumpet and piano	Brian Chin, graduate level trumpet but easy accompanist part. Orchestrated later for Wind Ensemble.
Tower of the Winds	2010	Wind Ensemble	Written in dedication to Russell Peck and his ingenuity and creativity for the piece "Cave." This piece is meant to be memorized and staged and optionally serve as a prelude to "Cave." This piece has been staged multiple times by both the University of Idaho (under the direction of Robert Spevacek) and University of New Hampshire (under the direction of Andrew Boyson). Similiar to "Cave," all of the parts for this work are hand copied. The exigence of this piece was spurred by Andrew Boyson, who wanted Bukvich to write this with 2 goals in mind: to encourage people to listen to "Cave," and to write a piece that seemed hard to execute but was easy to produce and learn.
March Prelude to the Star Spangled Banner	2012	Concert Band	This was written for Grangeville Highschool, they wanted a prelude to the Star Spangled Banner. Drawing from a tradition of using Souza themes as a prelude for a performance, Bukvich composed a march that would lead the performers into the Star Spangled Banner. The content of the march is all derived from the Star Spangled Banner.
Harmonie du soir	2013-02-17	Solo violin and piano	Written for Emily Benjamin, a music and french major at the University of Idaho. She asked for a piece that she could play and sing. Benjamin picked a poem by Charles Baudelaire that Bukvich then adapted for this piece. This piece has also been performed by University of Idaho faculty members, Eneida Larti and Giselle Hillyer.
Five Fantasies on the Tones A & G for Brass Quintet	2019	Brass quintet	Written for Al Gimberling, the piece is based off his initials "A & G." The spelling of the 4th movement is a hymn but was referring to him, Al Gimberling. During the first rehearsal of this piece, Al was recorded to have broken into tears from the content of the 4th movement.
Light	2019	Choir	This Hannukah piece was written for the University of Idaho Holiday Concert in 2019.
Warhorse Mysticanza	2019	Saxophone duo and piano	This piece was comissioned by Patrick Jones and Vanessa Sielert for the 2020 North American Saxophone Alliance Conference in Tempe, Arizona. The work is a conglomoration of three standard works in the saxophone repertoire (Aleksandr Glazanov's Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Jaques Ibert's Concertino da Camera for Alto Saxophone, and Paul Creston's Sonata for Alto Saxophone). Coined as some of the "war horse" pieces in the reperoire, this work was meant to serve some inside jokes to an audience of almost all saxophone players by tastefully mashing the works together.
Three and One-Half Songs for Alto Saxophone and Piano	2020	Solo alto saxophone and piano	Commission from Vanessa Sielert for her album Duality with Catherine Anderson. The final half song notably uses tin foil in the end of the saxophone bell.

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