Blue and White Dance

By: Andrew Boysen Jr. 

Concert Band Grade: 4.5

Blue and white are the colors of the fraternity Kappa Kappa Psi who commissioned the celebratory Blue and White Dance. To represent the two colors, composer Andrew Boysen uses two contrasting themes in the piece, each containing two parts. He uses other compositional techniques to represent the 25th anniversary of the chapter of the fraternity, such as deriving most of the melodic content from the final phrase of the fraternity’s hymn.