JAMES M. DAVID, composer
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D Y M A X I O N

Dymaxion
​for concert band


Purchase score and parts at Murphy Music Press
Grade 2 - ca. 2 minutes - $60

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Program Notes

The renowned architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller coined the term Dymaxion as a combination of Dynamic - Maximum - Tension. He created numerous inventions that expressed this idea including a highly streamlined automobile that was fancied by the likes of Leopold Stokowski and Amelia Earhart.  This short fanfare for concert band utilizes a continually rising scalar motive (not unlike the Shepard Tone), an oppressive percussion ostinato, and several interlocking polyrhythms to create a continuous crescendo to the final cadence. This work was commissioned by the Waukee Middle School Band, Waukee, Iowa and dedicated to their director Mary Crandell, President, Iowa Bandmasters Association.
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  • Home
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  • wind ensemble
    • Unseen Wings
    • Sky Above Clouds
    • Pulsing Onward
    • Flaxen Tresses
    • My Lyre Within the Sky
    • Pulsing Onward
    • Pale Blue Dot
    • Symphony No 2
    • Atomic Time
    • With Soul Serene
    • Fallingwater at Twilight
    • Arise and Awaken
    • Message from Arecibo
    • Flying Jewels
    • Urban Light
    • Symphony no. 1
    • Troublesome Fire
    • Ghosts of the Old Year
    • Call to Commitment
    • March Tumbao
    • Lookfar
    • Menlo Park, 1879
    • Zephyrus
    • Flexible Instrumentation
    • Heartland Verses
    • Swing Landscape
    • I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
    • Concerto for Vibraphone
    • The Moorlands
    • Big Four on the River
    • All Dark Is Now No More
    • Temple's Grace
    • From the Shaken Tower
    • Two-Lane Blacktop
    • Sinfonietta no. 3
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      • Song of the Valar
      • Bass Trombone Sonata
      • Partiels 2
      • Garden of the Gods
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      • Of Unsurpassed Heroes
      • Trumpet Sonata
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      • The Dandelion
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