Cold Mountain Saga

Larry Clark

Larry Clark

General Info

Year: 2006 / 2015
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: II-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Carl Fischer
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00; (digital) - $60.00   |   Score Only (print) - $12.00

Instrumentation (Flexible)

Full Score
Part 1

• Flute
• B-flat Soprano Clarinet
• B-flat Trumpet
• Oboe
• Violin

Part 2

• B-flat Soprano Clarinet
• B-flat Trumpet
• E-flat Alto Saxophone
• Violin

Part 3

• B-flat Soprano Clarinet
• E-flat Alto Saxophone
• F Horn
• B-flat Tenor Saxophone
• Violin
• Viola

Part 4

• B-flat Tenor Saxophone
• Euphonium T.C.
• F Horn
• Trombone
• Euphonium B.C.
• Bassoon
• Cello

Part 5

• B-flat Bass Clarinet
• Trombone
• Euphonium B.C.
• Bassoon
• Cello
• Euphonium T.C.
• Tuba
• Bass
• E-flat Baritone Saxophone

Keyboard (optional)
Timpani
Mallet Percussion

• Bells
• Chimes

Percussion 1

• Snare Drum
• Bass Drum

Percussion 2

• Triangle
• Suspended Cymbal
• Crash Cymbals
• Tambourine

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Cold Mountain in North Carolina was made famous by the best-selling novel and major motion picture of the same name. This piece for young band is not intended to depict the story of the book or movie, but rather to depict the rich history and natural beauty of the area itself. The hauntingly beautiful melody first stated by a recorder is one of the most memorable Larry Clark has ever written. This piece has become a standard for young band and now is available in a flexible setting for the first time.

- Program Note from publisher

Commissioned by the Waynesville Middle School Concert Band, Waynesville, N.C., Ralph Caldwell and David Teague, Directors

- Program Note from score

Cold Mountain falls in the mountain region of western North Carolina, United States. The mountain is one of the Great Balsam Mountains which are a part of the Blue Ridge Mountains within the Appalachian Mountains. Cold Mountain and the Shining Rock Wilderness surrounding it are part of Pisgah National Forest. It stands 6030 feet tall.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• All-Purpose Performance Collection (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• Armed Forces - The Pride of America! (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger)
• Bardic Air and Reel (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2021)
• Cold Mountain Saga (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2015)
• Digital Prisms (Flex instrumentation) (2001/2013)
• Radetzky March (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1848/2015)
• Shining Moments (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• The Spirit of an Eagle (Flex instrumentation) (2008/2012)

All Wind Works

• Acclaim March
• Achievement
• Admiration March
• Adversary
• Aftershock
• Air and Caprice
• All-Purpose Performance Collection (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• Allegiance
• Alliance
• Antagonist
• Antiphony
• Armed Forces - The Pride of America! (as arranger) (2006)
• Armed Forces - The Pride of America! (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2017)
• Ascending (2013)
• Autumn Mist
• Band-o-rama March
• Bardic Air and Reel (2020)
• Bardic Air and Reel (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2021)
• A Bartok Suite (as arranger) (1909/1997)
• Be Thou My Vision
• Canticle of the Sun
• Cartoon Symphony (as arranger) (1997
• Celebration (as arranger) (1980/1996))
• Celebrity March
• Celtic Echoes (2016)
• Character
• Christmas "a la" Big Band (1998)
• Chronicles LC
• Cimarron
• The Clarion Call
• Clash and Roar
• Cloud Dancing (2016)
• Cold Mountain Saga (2006)
• Cold Mountain Saga (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2015)
• Colossus
• Confidence March
• Conflict
• Conquest LC
• Consensus
• Contredanse
• Convergence (1997)
• Conviction (2012)
• Crystal Moon (2004)
• Crystalline (2016)
• Da Vincian Visions
• Dance of the Harlequins
• Dance of the Thunderbolts
• Declaration and Dance (1996)
• Digital Prisms (2001)
• Digital Prisms (Flex instrumentation) (2001/2013)
• Dream, Imagine, Live (2015)
• Elite March
• Enduring Traveller
• Engines of Resistance (1996)
• Envisage
• Epic
• Equinox (2007)
• Ethos (2014)
• Excelcia (1995)
• Exhilaration (2009)
• Expectations (2015)
• Fanfare Acclamations
• Fanfare Supernova
• Festival Chorale and March
• Flaming Arrow
• Fleur-de-lis March
• Flourish LC
• Genesis
• Genius (as arranger) (1937/2005)
• Geology - The Study of Rock
• Goin' Home for Christmas (as arranger) (2006)
• His Honor March (as arranger) (1934/2014)
• Honor March
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (as arranger)
• Impressions
• Instinct
• Integrity
• Irish Tune from County Derry (as arranger, with Schmidt) (1918/2001)
• Joust
• Kinetic Energy (2007)
• A Land Remembered (2010)
• Lassus Trombone (as arranger) (1915/1998)
• Legacy of Honor LC
• Legends
• Loyalty March
• Magma
• March to the Movies (1998)
• Meet the Band
• Military Escort (as Harold Bennett) (as arranger) (1923/2014)
• Monmouth March
• A More Perfect Union
• Mustangs-The Spirit of the West
• Mystic Legacy
• A Natural Blues (2002)
• Omega One
• Out of the Winter
• Pavane, Op. 50 (as arranger) (1887/1999)
• Penta
• Phantom Echo
• Pieces of Eight (2010)
• Pinnacle of Distinction March
• Precision (as Harold Bennett) (as arranger) (1926/2011)
• Prestige March
• Primus
• Project (as arranger) (2002)
• The Pursuit of Knowledge
• Quest for the Throne (2018)
• Quintus
• Radetzky March (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1848/2015)
• Recognition (2010)
• Recorder Rag
• Red Hill Special March (as arranger) (2003)
• Red Thunder (2004)
• Reflections LC
• Resurgence
• The Royal Irish Regiment (2015)
• SCDBA Fanfare
• Scottish Bobber
• Sentinel
• Seven Springs
• Shenadoah's Simple Gifts (2008)
• Shining Moments (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Shockwave
• Sicilienne (as arranger) (1893/1898/2009)
• Silent Night (as arranger)
• Sleep, My Child (2018)
• The Spirit of an Eagle (2008)
• The Spirit of an Eagle (Flex instrumentation) (2008/2012)
• Success (as arranger) (1912/2001)
• Suo Gan (as arranger) (2014)
• Swords of Evolution
• Symphony No. 1 Theme (as arranger, with Feldstein) (1876/2006)
• Talons of Fire
• Tartan Tapestries (2018)
• The Tell-Tale Heart (2002)
• Torch Burns Bright
• Triumph of the Vikings
• Twist of Fate
• Upon a New Horizon (1999)
• Valor March
• Vires Artes Mores
• Whispers (with Feldstein) (2007)
• Zodiac

Resources

• Clark, L. (2006). Cold Mountain Saga [score]. Carl Fischer: New York.
• Cold Mountain (North Carolina), Wikipedia Accessed 29 May 2020
• Larry Clark website Accessed 29 May 2020
• Perusal score