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Mist-Covered Mountain: Fantasy for Symphonic Band on a Scottish Pipe Tune
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General Info
Year: 1982
Duration: c. 13:45
Difficulty: VI
Publisher: Jack Gallagher Music
Cost: Contact Composer
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon I-II
Eb Soprano Clarinet
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Eb Alto Clarinet
Bb Bass Clarinet
Bb Contrabass Clarinet
Eb Alto Saxophone I-II
Bb Tenor Saxophone
Eb Baritone Saxophone
Bb Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III (six players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Cymbals (crash and suspended)
- Glockenspiel (Orchestral Bells)
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells (Chimes)
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Mist-Covered Mountain was commissioned in 1982 by The College of Wooster Scot Symphonic Band, Stuart J. Ling, Director, with support from The College of Wooster Faculty Development Fund. In acknowledgment of the Scottish Heritage embraced by the College, and in keeping with the suggestion of Dr. Ling (who suggested c. six-to-eight possible Scottish folksongs or pipe tunes), the work is based freely upon a Scottish tune titled Chi Mi Na Morbheanna (The Mist-Covered Mountains).
The text of Chi Mi Na Morbheanna is ascribed to Ian Cameron, who is credited with having composed it on the first day of autumn 1856 to a tune known originally as “Johnny Stays Long at the Fair” (cited in Archibald Sinclair: The Gaelic Songster. An t-Òranaiche: no, Co-thional taghte do òrain ùr agus shean, Glasgow, 1879). The tune was played by the U.S. Air Force Pipers at the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Mist-Covered Mountain: Fantasy for Symphonic Band on a Scottish Pipe Tune consists of four main sections: (1) a slow introduction and chorale derived from fragments of the tune; (2) a fast main section developed from the chorale and other thematic elements; (3) a slow episode built on the first four notes of the tune, followed by a rhythmically altered, polytonal development of its first phrase; and (4) a modified return of the fast section and peroration during which the tune coalesces into its most complete form.
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Recent Performances
- The College of Wooster Scot Symphonic Band (Nancy Ditmer, conductor) - 29 April 2007
- Valparaiso Chamber Concert Band (Jeffrey Doebler, conductor) - 27 April 2007
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Ancient Evenings and Distant Music for wind quintet (1971)
- Celebration and Reflection for brass quintet (1970)
- Diversions: Triptych for Symphonic Band (1985)
- Mist-Covered Mountain: Fantasy for Symphonic Band on a Scottish Pipe Tune (1983)
- The Persistence of Memory (In Memoriam: Brian Israel) (1989)
- Proteus Rising from the Sea (1994)
- Psalm of Life: Fantasy for Symphonic Band on Tchesnokoff's "Salvation Is Created" (1997)
- Resonances for four trumpets (1983)
- Stanfare for eight trumpets and timpani (1996)
- Toccata for Brass Quintet (1970)
Additional Resources
