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And the Mountains Echoed: Gloria!
Contents
General Info
Year: 1997
Duration: c. 4:38
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C.L. Barnhouse
Cost: Score and Parts - $68.00 | Score Only - $6.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
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 (Bass Clef & Treble Clef)
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Snare Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Bell Tree
- Bells
- Chimes
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-Tam
- Triangle
- Xylophone
Errata
This error is in the parts:
Baritone T.C.: Bar 26, 3rd beat: F natural should be F#; Bar 48, 4th beat: C natural should be C#; bar 50, 4th beat, F natural should be F#; Bar 112, 3rd beat: F natural should be F#.
Program Notes
When Robert Longfield wrote And The Mountains Echoed: Gloria!, he wanted to write an original composition that quoted a familiar carol as the second theme of the composition and therefore was both new and traditional at the same time. Angels We Have Heard On High is one of Longfield’s favorite carols and so it was chosen as the second theme in the piece. The title comes from the line in the carol which states “. ..and the mountains in reply, echoing their glorious strain.”
The form of the piece is ABAB Coda. In the opening section, the trumpets and trombones perform a majestic and heroic fanfare-like theme, which the composer hoped would be recognized as “Gloria”. The horns, saxophones, and euphoniums echo the trumpets and trombones at the beginning. Motifs from the A section appear in the B section when the carol is quoted. In the second A section, the opening theme is treated as a fugue, in which the lead trumpets introduce the subject, which is then reiterated by other instruments throughout the fugue in a myriad of combinations and transformations. The final section is a grandiose restatement of the carol, which is slightly slower and very broad in style. The piece concludes with a brilliant fanfare-like coda, prolonging a plagal or Amen cadence.
- Program Note by San Luis Obispo Wind Orchestra concert program, 11 December 2011
This work is a true concert fantasia on the carol Angels We Have Heard on High. The piece is loaded with development, embellishment, and even a fugal section, and is nothing short of stunning! Use this great piece of music to show off your band's best stuff at the holiday concert, or even use it for a contest/festival selection.
- Program Note by publisher
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Audio Links
State Ratings
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Performances
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- Mahoosuc Community Band (Bethel, N. H.) (Patricia Boyle Wight, conductor) – 9 December 2019
- Callanwolde Concert Band (Decatur, Ga.) (Glenn R. Moore, conductor) – 5 December 2018
- Gateway Concert Band (Enumclaw, Wash.) (Jack Prindle, conductor) – 16 December 2018
- Monroe County (Mich.) Community College/Community Band (Mark Felder, conductor) – 10 December 2018
- Sacramento (Calif.) Symphonic Winds (Tim Smith, conductor) – 9 December 2018
- Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (Tifton, Ga.) Concert Band (Johnny Folsom) – 13 November 2018
- Mercyhurst University (Erie, Penn.) Wind Ensemble (Scott Meier, conductor) – 19 November 2017
- San Luis Obispo (Calif.) Wind Orchestra (Jennifer Martin, conductor) – 18 December 2016
- Parkland College (Champaign, Ill.) Concert Band (Larry Stoner, conductor) - 3 December 2014
- Covenant Christian High School (Walker, Mich.) Band - December 2013
- San Luis Obispo Wind Orchestra (Lauren Wasynczuk, conductor) - 11 December 2011
- San Luis Obispo Wind Orchestra (William V. Johnson, conductor) - 9 December 2006
Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- Allegretto (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1812/2011)
- Kentucky 1800 (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1954/2006/2017)
- Three Ayres from Gloucester (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1969/2016)
- Two British Folk Songs (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1993/2019)
All Wind Works
- Airs of the Court (as arranger) (1931/2009)
- Allegretto (as arranger) (1812/2011)
- Allegretto (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1812/2011)
- Also Sprach Zarathustra (as arranger)
- America (Longfield)
- And the Mountains Echoed: Gloria! (1997)
- The Armed Man (as arranger) (1999/2015)
- The Banks of Green Willow (as arranger) (1913/2017)
- The Bells of Christmas (2002)
- Berceuse and Finale from "The Firebird" (as arranger)
- Broad Stripes and Bright Stars (as arranger) (2005)
- Cakewalk (as arranger)
- Carol of the Bells (as adapter)
- Celebration (as arranger)
- Chorale from "Concord" (as arranger) (1988/2018)
- Cinema Paradiso (as arranger) (1988/2012)
- Cruzan Dances
- Danza Final (as arranger) (1941/2009)
- Deck the Halls (as arranger with Davis)
- El Camino Real (as arranger) (1985/2013)
- El Choclo (as arranger) (2006)
- The Engulfed Cathedral (as arranger)
- España Cañi (as arranger) (1921/1998)
- Excelsior
- Excerpts from "Symphony No. 5" Finale (as arranger) (1937/2007)
- Faeries (as adapter)
- Fanfare for the Common Man (as arranger) (1942/1944/2007)
- Fantasia on "Kingsfold" (as arranger) (2014)
- Farandole (as arranger)
- First Suite in E-flat (as arranger)
- Five Little Dances (as transcriber) (1946/2013)
- Freedom, Justice, Honor
- Gabriel's Oboe (as arranger) (1986/2009)
- Good King Wenceslas (as adapter)
- Greensleeves (arr. Davis) (as editor) (2011)
- Hallelujah (as adapter)
- Highlights from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" (as arranger) (1971/2009)
- The Holly and the Ivy (as adapter) (1988/1995)
- Honor Roll, The
- Hungarian Dance No 5 (arr Longfield) (as arranger)
- In Glory Triumphant
- In Quest of Excellence
- Italian Holiday (2009)
- Kalinka (as arranger) (2017)
- Kentucky 1800 (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1954/2006/2017)
- Mamma Mia! (as arranger)
- Oblivion (as arranger)
- Overture to "Abduction from the Seraglio" (as arranger)
- Parade March (as arranger)
- Passacaglia on an Old English Carol
- Pat-a-Pan (as adapter)
- Purple Twilight
- Rapp's Woods Ramble (2004)
- Russian Sailors' Dance (as arranger) (1927/1996)
- Sanctuary (Longfield)
- Second Suite in F (as adapter) (1911/2007)
- Selections from "Capriol Suite" (as arranger)
- Slava! (as transcriber) (1977/)
- Slavonic Dance No 1, Op 72 (arr Longfield) (as arranger)
- Slavonic Dance No 8, Op 46 (as arranger)
- Slavonic March (as arranger) (1878/2017)
- Stille Nacht (as arranger with Chip Davis) (1818/1987?)
- Street Tango (as arranger) (2017)
- Summertime from "Porgy and Bess" (as arranger)
- Swedish Hymn of Praise
- Take the Blues Train
- Three Ayres from Gloucester (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1969/2016)
- Transformations
- Turkish March (as arranger)
- Two British Folk Songs (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1993/2019)
- Vortex (Longfield)
- Water Music (as arranger) (1717/1997)
- When Summer's in the Meadow
- Where Valor Proudly Sleeps
- White Eagle, The
- X Brigade, The
References
- Longfield, R. (1997). And the Mountains Echoed: Gloria! [score]. C.L. Barnhouse: Oskaloosa, Iowa.
