Mountain Thyme
Subtitle: A Setting of Wild Mountain Thyme/The Braes of Balquhidder
General Info
Year: 2013
Duration: c. 4:40
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts - $75.00 | Score Only - $7.50
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra Alto Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Glockenspiel
- Gong
- Suspended Cymbal
- Vibraphone (or Piano)
- Wind Chimes
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Mountain Thyme was commissioned by the Mangelson Family and the Westlake High School Band of Saratoga Springs, Utah, Brek C. Mangelson, conductor. It was composed in memory of Garrett Kenton Mangelson (January 17, 2009-June 29, 2011). Mountain Thyme was premiered on December 12, 2012.
Last year, Brek Mangelson contacted me and, in a lengthy, heartbreaking email, asked if I would compose a memorial piece for his two-year-old son who recently passed in a tragic home accident. I was honestly concerned that I could not bring myself to write such a piece. At last year’s Midwest Clinic, Brek personally approached me and convinced me that I could. Mountain Thyme is the result. I based it on the gorgeous Irish folk song The Braes of Balquhidder. The lyrics of the folk song reference a boy asking a girl if she will go to the mountain and pick the flower wild mountain thyme that grows around the purple heather, the final line being, “Will ye go, lassie, go?” I wrote this setting from the viewpoint of young Garrett, waiting in Heaven for his mother, Brooke. He is asking her if she will go to the mountain with him. This piece exists in that moment.
- Program note by composer
Media
- Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Owasso High School Wind Ensemble (David Gorham, conductor)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Grove City (Penn.) College Wind Ensemble (Andrew S. Erb, conductor) - 17 October 2023
- San Luis Obispo (Calif.) High School Wind Ensemble (Sharon Jeskey, conductor) - 25 March 2023 (2023 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)
- Eastmont High School (East Wenatchee, Wash.) Concert Band (James Mitsuyasu, conductor) - 4 March 2023
- Central Lakes Wind Symphony (Brainerd, Minn.) (Jonathan Laflamme, conductor) - 3 May 2021
- Gold Coast Wind Ensemble (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) (Michael Doty, conductor) - 24 November 2013
- Owasso (Okla.) High School Wind Ensemble (David Gorham, conductor) – 20 December 2012 (2012 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Our Kingsland Spring (Flex instrumentation) (2005/2015)
All Wind Works
- Across the Halfpipe. See: Minnesota Portraits
- Ascend. See: Georgian Suite
- Alleluia (2012)
- Arabesque (2008/2009)
- Arrows (2014)
- As Winds Dance (2003)
- Autumn on White Lake (2010)
- Blessings
- Blue and Green Music (2011)
- Books With Blank Pages (2015)
- Bridges (2007)
- Chorus Angelorum (2009)
- Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (2008/2011)
- The Christmas Music of Samuel Hazo
- Danny Boy (as arranger) (2013)
- Diamond Fanfare (2006)
- Drums of the Saamis (2014)
- Each Time You Tell Their Story (2003)
- Echoes (2005)
- Enchanted Spaces (2012)
- Everything Beautiful (2015)
- The Stillness of Remembering (2015/2016)
- Exultate (2001/2003)
- Fantasy on a Japanese Folksong (1997/2005)
- For Heaven and the Future (2016)
- From Gold (2015)
- Georgian Suite (2002-2006)
- Our Kingsland Spring (2006)
- Our Kingsland Spring (Flex instrumentation) (2005/2015)
- Rivers (2002)
- Ascend (2005)
- Glorificare (2013)
- ...Go (2008)
- Hennepin County Dawn. See: Minnesota Portraits
- In Flight (2000/2008)
- In Heaven's Air (2002)
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (as arranger) (2012)
- Jubilatéo (Fanfare and Allegro) (2013)
- Keltic Variations (2003)
- Minnesota Portraits (2008)
- Mountain Thyme (2013)
- Novo Lenio (2002)
- Olympiada (1997/2002)
- Our Kingsland Spring. See: Georgian Suite
- Our Yesterdays Lengthen like Shadows (2010)
- Parkour (2011)
- Perthshire Majesty (2003/2004)
- Psalm 42 (2004)
- The Quest (2002)
- Rest. See: Minnesota Portraits
- Ride (2002)
- Rising Star (2006)
- Rivers. See: Georgian Suite
- Rush (2006)
- Seconds Out (2013)
- Sevens (2005)
- Siorai September (2011)
- Sky Is Waiting (2006)
- Sòlas Ané (2006)
- Southern Hymn (2009)
- Stella Maris (2014)
- The Stillness of Remembering. See: Everything Beautiful
- Their Blossoms Down (2002)
- Three Concert Fanfares (2007)
- To Be (2019)
- Today Is the Gift (2006)
- Voices of the Sky (2005)
- We Meet Again (2010)
- Whisper to their Souls (2008)
- A Zillion Nickels (2015)
Resources
None discovered thus far.