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As I Gaze from the High Mountain
General Info
Year: 2010
Duration: c. 2:00
Difficulty: I (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Daehn Publications
Cost: Score and Parts - $50.00 | Score - $5.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute (Oboe)
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone (Baritone T.C.)
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone (Baritone B.C.)
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Cymbals (suspended)
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Tenor Drum
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
As I Gaze from the High Mountain is based on the 19th-century Japanese folk song “Takai-Yama”. This pentatonic tune, which was used by Giacomo Puccini in Madama Butterfly, sounds serious and dramatic, but supports a lyric that is anything but:
As I gaze from the high mountain
Into the valley below
(Look now!)
Cucumbers and eggplants are at their peak of blossoming.
Media
- Audio CD: West Ridge Middle School Wind Ensemble (Susan Glover, conductor) - 2010]
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Oceanport Middle School Band (Patrick Burns, conductor) - 11 May 2011
- West Ridge Middle School (Austin, Tx.) Wind Ensemble (Susan Glover, conductor) – 15 December 2010 (2010 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Always We Begin Again (2010)
- Amazing Grace
- Ancient Dialogue (2006)
- Anthem (Theme and Variations on the National Anthem of Poland) (2011)
- As I Gaze from the High Mountain (2010)
- Bal Masqué (as arranger)
- Be Thou My Vision
- Cadet Parade (2007)
- Celebration Fanfare
- Cortege (as arranger)
- Count Not the Hours
- Dances on the Golden Shore
- Desert Caravan
- Diamond Variations
- Electric City Celebration (2013)
- Energies: Suite for Band
- Enchanted Night
- Fairest Morning (2020)
- Fantasy on "Salve Regina" (2011)
- Fawn Grove Fanfare (2022)
- Flight of Years (2000)
- Go and Ask My Mother (as arranger) (1848/)
- Gothic Dance (2008)
- Harford Rhapsody
- The Hawk's Revenge (2012)
- Hometown (2002)
- I loved well those cities...
- An Impulse to Soar (2012)
- Joyful Spirit March (2008)
- Legend of the Omaha (2011)
- Let the Future Begin
- Lighted Streets on Quiet Nights
- Music for a Celebration (2001)
- My Love Is Fairer than Any (2019)
- Noble Vision (2021)
- North Country March
- Oasis (2017)
- Oceanport Overture
- Overture on Canadian Folk Songs (2005)
- Perfect Trip (2006)
- A Prayer (2016)
- Prelude and Toccata (2019)
- Prelude in F Minor (as arranger) (1911/2011
- Pride and Purpose (2007)
- Regal Ceremony (2006)
- Rhapsody for Solo Clarinet and Band (2015)
- Ryukyu-Bushi (2012)
- Seize the Day! (Carpe Diem) (2010)
- Sempre Avanti (2008)
- Sennet (2018)
- Simmering Chesapeake
- Simple Song
- Soundtrack
- Spirit Unseen
- Splendid Star (2011)
- Spring Song (as arranger)
- The Sun Just Touched the Morning (2010)
- Suspended Animation (2007)
- Symphonic Dance (2002)
- There Will Come Soft Rains (2016)
- Three Prayers (2013)
- Time: A River of Passing Events (2009)
- Toccata (2008)
- Transformed Spring (2010)
- The Valedictory of Saint Paul
- Victory Lap
- Vignettes (2017)
- With Every Step, a Memory
- Zephyrus: God of the West Wind (2009)