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Notes<\/h2>\n

Sunrise on the Hills, a contemporary solo for horn alone, is inspired by the similarly named poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem describes the village bell and the “wild horn whose voice the woodland fills” and sounds echoing through a bucolic valley.<\/p>\n

Some of the passages are challenging, but the range is not too high in this solo, going up to an A-flat.<\/p>\n

The composer’s note:<\/p>\n

This is the second piece that I’ve gotten from the imagery of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s early poem “Sunrise on the Hills”. It appears to me to describe the hills and valleys of some central New England landscape, maybe the Berkshires in the west where I grew up. Not all the stanzas speak to me, but the line “wild horn whose voice the woodland fills” became the name of a piece for 8 horns I wrote in memory of a fellow horn player who lived in the rolling hills around Harvard, MA, home of Fruitlands, of transcendentalist renown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Part of Pamela’s Poetry-Inspired Music collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Listen<\/h2>\n

Listen<\/strong> to a recording by the composer, who happens to play horn:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/musfiles\/pjm-sunriseonhills.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Poem – Excerpt<\/h2>\n
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Sunrise on the Hills<\/strong>
\nfrom Earlier Poems<\/em> by
\nHenry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)<\/p>\n

Excerpts<\/em>
\nI stood upon the hills, when heaven’s wide arch
\nWas glorious with the sun’s returning march,
\nAnd woods were brightened, and soft gales
\nWent forth to kiss the sun-clad vales.<\/p>\n

The clouds were far beneath me; bathed in light,
\nThey gathered mid-way round the wooded height,
\nAnd, in their fading glory, shone
\nLike hosts in battle overthrown.
\n…<\/p>\n

The veil of cloud was lifted, and below
\nGlowed the rich valley, and the river’s flow
\nWas darkened by the forest’s shade,
\nOr glistened in the white cascade;
\nWhere upward, in the mellow blush of day,
\nThe noisy bittern wheeled his spiral way.
\n…<\/p>\n

Then o’er the vale, with gentle swell,
\nThe music of the village bell
\nCame sweetly to the echo-giving hills;
\nAnd the wild horn, whose voice the woodland fills,
\nWas ringing to the merry shout,
\nThat faint and far the glen sent out,
\nWhere, answering to the sudden shot, thin smoke,
\nThrough thick-leaved branches, from the dingle broke.
\n…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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