Night on Bare Mountain (tr Hindsley)
Modest Mussorgsky (orch. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Mark Hindsley)
This work is also known as Night on Bald Mountain. Both "bare" and "bald" are technically correct.
General Info
Year: 1867 / 197-?
Duration: c. 12:07
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hindsley Transcriptions
Cost: Score and Parts - $109.00 | Score Only - $24.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo/Flute I
Flute II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Harp
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Gong
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Modeste Mussorgsky wrote Night on Bald Mountain in 1867 in 12 days. His inspiration was a story by the Russian author Nicolai Gogol. He later reworked it as part of a planned opera Mlada, that was never finished. He reworked it again in 1880 and used it as an intermezzo in his opera Sorochinsky Fair. The work ended up in a pile of unfinished manuscripts, and was discovered by Rimsky-Korsakov after Mussorgsky’s death. He then wrote an orchestral arrangement based on Mussorgsky’s final version. Mussorgsky gave a brief description of the work: Gathering of the Witches, their gossip and chit chat; The Procession of Satan; Pagan Worship of Satan; Sabbath.
- Program Note from Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music
I need hardly remind the reader that the orchestral piece universally known as Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain is an orchestral composition by Rimsky-Korsakov based on the later version of the Bare Mountain music which Mussorgsky prepared for Sorochintsy Fair.
— Gerald Abraham, musicologist and an authority on Mussorgsky, 1945, Wikipedia
Media
State Ratings
- Florida: VI
- Georgia: VI
- Kansas: VI
- Louisiana: V
- Mississippi: VI-A
- Oklahoma: V-A
- South Carolina: VI
- Tennessee: VI
- Texas: V. Complete
- Virginia: VI
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Gold Coast Wind Ensemble (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) (Michael Doty, conductor) – 21 October 2018
- University of Illinois (Champaign) Wind Symphony (Stephen G. Peterson, conductor) – 30 October 2016
- Columbia University Wind Ensemble (Andrew Pease, conductor) – 22 October 2005
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Pictures at an Exhibition (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kano) (1874/ )
- Pictures at an Exhibition (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sweeney) (1874/2012)
All Wind Works
- Baba Yaga/La Grande Porte de Kiev (arr. Van Grevenbroek). See: Pictures at an Exhibition
- Coronation Scene (arr. Cacavas) (1874/2005)
- Coronation Scene from "Boris Godunov" (tr. Leidzen) (1874/1936)
- Dawn on the Moscow River (arr. Kotovsky) (1874/2019?)
- Excerpts from Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Patterson) (1874/2011)
- Gopak (orch. Lyadov; arr. Avignon) (1874-1880/1969)
- Gopak (arr. Van der Beek) (1874-1880/1995)
- Great Gate of Kiev (arr. Odom) (1874/)
- Marche Turque/In the Village (arr. Hilliard and Lake)
- Mussorgsky! (arr. Harnsberger) (2008)
- Night on Bald Mountain (arr. Gardner) (1867)
- Night on Bald Mountain (arr. Kellis and Schietroma) (1867)
- Night on Bald Mountain (scored Schaefer) (1867/1976/1990)
- Night on Bald Mountain (arr. Williams) (1867/1991)
- Night on Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov; tr. Hindsley) (1867/197-?)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Hautvast) (1874/2013)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (tr. Hindsley) (1874/1995)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel; tr. Lavender) (1874/2011)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (tr. Leidzen) (1874/1942)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (tr. Loest) (1874/2012)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kano) (1874/)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (tr. Patterson) (1874)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (tr. Saras) (1874)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sweeney) (1874/2012)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (tr. Takahashi)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Van Grevenbroek) (1874/2008)
- Pictures at an Exhibition Finale (orch. Simpson; ed. Reed) (1874/2004)
- Procession of Princes and Priests (tr. Patterson) (1872/2001)
- Promenade (arr. Van Grevenbroek). See: Pictures at an Exhibition
- Triumphal March Capture of Kars (arr. Simpson)
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Night on Bald Mountain." Accessed 21 October 2014
- Mussorgsky, M; Rimsky-Korsakov, N.; Hindsley, M. [197-?] Night on the bare mountain : (Night on Bald Mountain) [score]. [Concert Band Transcriptions]: [Urbana, Ill.]
- Night on Bald Mountain. Wikipedia. Accessed 6 August 2023