Enjoy this performance of Hymn to Mt. Nevermind. It originally appeared in More Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home, released in 1987. Buy More Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/204205/More-Leaves-from-the-Inn-of-the-Last-Home-2e?affiliate_id=50797
Instruments and Vocals performed by andresarcv.
About Hymn to Mt. Nevermind; Fanfare and Anthem
Despite the brevity of its words and the oddities of its orchestration, this work is known as the gnome national anthem. Obviously (and unfortunately) some of it has been lost over the years. Musicians of my acquaintance wonder occasionally what the missing lyrics included. They will ever remain one of the mysteries of Krynn.
This piece is normally played on a small pipe organ with a rather nasal tone, or by an ensemble of instruments, or both is available. Since the gnomes who play music typically have their own self-invented instruments, the gathering is oven a bluster of trumpets with three bells pointed upward and to each side, bassoons whose tope resemble a pipe organ made of wood, and horns so long it takes a machine to blow a tremendous volume of air through them before they’ll sound notes deep in the bas range. For their favored instruments, each gnome also invents a method of tuning that is slightly different from any other. Therefore when it plays together, the ensemble is always out of tune. Performance of this work is often an ear-flogging experience for listeners.
I have slowed this piece down from its normal gnomish speed. Some renderings of this piece are over in ten seconds. Please notice that during the final sounding of the fanfare the ensemble often begins to fight, usually bass against treble. (These beetles can last some time. I have abbreviated the one in this manuscript due to space considerations and lack of parchment.) Typically an elder (or occasionally the conductor), bellows “Hey!” in a likely spot to gain their attention and return the instrumentalists to order. I have left these embellishments in the score because they are a normal part of the work.
Mirrashar, Elven Bard
Lyrics
Beautiful mountain.
Storehouse to wonderful things past accountin!
Long may you stand,
neither crumbled nor rotten
(There was another verse here we’ve forgotten)
But nevermind, nevermind
Where the passage of days is both noble and kind!
Hey!
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