American Highlands
composer: Nancy Galbraith (2025)
genre: wind ensemble
length: 1 movement, 8:30 minutes
orchestration: 2fl, 2ob, 2cl, b-cl, 2bn;
2a-sax, t-sax, bar-sax; 4tpt,
4hn, 2tbn, b-tbn, euph, tba;
piano, 4perc
publisher: Subito Music Publishing (ASCAP)
60 Depot Street, Verona, NJ 07044
mail@subitomusic.com • 973-857-3440

world premiere: 23 April 2025
Carnegie Mellon Wind EnsembleStephen Story, conductor
Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland) • Pittsburgh, PENNSYLVANIA
program notes:

American Highlands is inspired by the early American tradition of The Sacred Harp ("shape-note") choral singing, thus featuring areas of wide tonal harmonies with open fifths, and an overall spirit of exhuberance and joyous innocence. —Martha Tablewight

source: nancygalbraith.com