Song of the Mountain Horn

Béla Bartók

Subtitle: Music of Béla Bartók

General Info

Year: 2013
Duration: c. 4:37
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Daehn Publications
Cost: Score and Parts - $76.00 | Score Only - $6.00

Movements

1. Dance (Hungarian)
2. Song of the Mountain Horn (Romanian)
3. Allegro Ironico (Hungarian)
4. Fooling (Slovakian)

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I/English Horn
Oboe II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass 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-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:

Bass Drum
Crash Cymbals
Marimba
Orchestra Chimes
Ratchet
Snare Drum
Tambourine
Temple Blocks
Triangle
Whip
Wood Block
Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

These settings are based on early piano works by Béla Bártok, written as a student exercise in 1908-1909 and entitled For Children. They have been freely reimagined and transcribed, with percussion added and phrases repeated or extended. The rhythms, harmonies and melodies are 98% Bártok.

The four movements are as follows:

1. Dance (Hungarian) appears in various collections of easy piano under that title and is well known by many young pianists.
2. Song of the Mountain Horn (Romanian), also called Buciumeana (dance from Bucsum), was the fourth movement of the six Romanian Dances, originally composed for piano in 1915 and later for orchestra in 1917.
3. Allegro ironico (Hungarian) often shares the title of Teasing Song or something similar with the final movement (Fooling), so the arranger opted to use the tempt marking as the title for this movement.
4. Fooling (Slovakian) was originally titled Former Flame.

- Program Note by the Antoinette Reading Junior High School Band concert program, 17 December 2014

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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GMEA District 9 Concert Band - 2017
Antoinette Reading Junior High School (Richmond, Tx.) Honors Band (Tim Weiss, conductor) – 17 December 2014 (2014 Midwest Clinic)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

For Children (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kurokawa) (1909/1945/2014)
Romanian Folk Dances (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Nakamura) (1915/2017)

All Wind Works

Allegro Barbaro (arr. Roman) (1911)
Allegro Barbaro (arr. Wallace) (1911/1995)
Bartok Folk Rhapsody (arr. McGinty) (/2004)
Bartok: Folk Trilogy (arr. McGinty) (1992)
Bartok for Band (arr. Schaeffer) (/1981)
Bartok for Children, three pieces (arr. Finlayson) (1909/1966)
Bartok Sketches
A Bartok Suite (arr. Clark) (1909/1997)
Bear Dance (arr. Leidzén) (1909/1931/1955)
Changing Time (arr. Schaeffer) (1909/1984)
Children's Album (arr. Gordon) (1909/1957)
Country Dance (arr. Henderson, Stoutamire) (1976)
Dance Suite (arr. Suzuki) (1923/2000)
Dance Suite (arr. Vandenberghe) (1923/)
Divertimento (arr. Abe) (1939/2015-2017)
Evening in the Country (arr. Suchoff) (1908/1931/1970)
Evening in the Village (arr. Leidzén) (1908/1931/1955)
Folk Song and Dance (arr. McGinty) (1988)
Folk Song Suite (tr. Erickson) 1909/1968)
Folk Trilogy (arr. McGinty) (1992)
For Children (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kurokawa) (1909/1945/2-14)
Four Pieces for Band (arr. Suchoff) (1961)
Four Sketches (arr. Schaefer) (1908/1963)
Hungarian Folk Song (arr. Castle) (1975)
Hungarian Folk Suite (arr. Gordon) (1967)
In a Quiet Mood (arr. Applebaum) (1909/1972)
Jocùri Poporale Romanesti (arr. Goto) (1999)
Little Suite (arr. Lijnschooten)
Maypole Dance
The Miraculous Mandarin (arr. Morita) (1918-1924/2017)
Nocturne (arr. Gardner) (1908/1931/1962)
Petite Suite (tr. Cushing) (1936/1963)
Piano Concerto No. 1 (1926)
Piano Concerto No. 2 (1932)
Play (arr. Pharmer) (1909/1969)
Rhapsody for Children (arr. Erickson) (1909/1969)
Roumanian Folk Dances (arr. Goto). See: Jocùri Poporale Romanesti
Romanian Folk Dances (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Nakamura) (1915/2017)
Second Movement from "Streichquartett nr. 2" (arr. Koh) (1915-1917/2006)
Silly Story (arr. Gordon) (1909/1974)
Song of the Mountain Horn (arr. La Plante) (2013)
Suite No. 14 (1916/)
Swineherd's Dance (arr. Suchoff) (1908/1931/1962)
Three Bartok Themes (arr. Pharmer) (1971)
Three Folk Songs (1907/)
Three Hungarian Songs (arr. Gordon) (1975)
Three Pieces for Children
Two Bagatelles for Band (arr. Gardner) (1970)
Two Pieces (arr. Lijnschooten)
Two Portraits (arr. Hanna)
Two Songs and a Dance (arr. Hastings) (1976)

Resources

Lytle, Stephen. "Song of the Mountain Horn." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 11, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 267-278. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2018.