Compositions by Percy Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy, Brigg Fair, Molly on the Shore, Country Gardens, Train Music (Paperback)

Chapters: Lincolnshire Posy, Brigg Fair, Molly on the Shore, Country Gardens, Train Music. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lincolnshire Posy is a piece by Percy Grainger for concert band, composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association. Considered Grainger's masterpiece, the 16-minute-long work is composed of six movements, each adapted from folk songs that Grainger had collected on a 19051906 trip to Lincolnshire, England. The work debuted with three of the movements on March 7, 1937 by the Milwaukee Symphonic Band, a group composed of members from several bands including the Blatz Brewery and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer factory worker bands in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Unlike other composers that attempted to alter and modernize folk music for band, such as Ralph Vaughan Williams (see English Folk Song Suite), Grainger wished to maintain the exact sense of stylizing that he experienced from the singers. Grainger wrote: Grainger dedicated his "bunch of Wildflowers" to "the old folksingers who sang so sweetly to me." The piece is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn (ad lib), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon (ad lib), E-flat clarinet, 3 B-flat clarinets, alto clarinet, bass clarinet, 6 saxophones (soprano, 2 altos, tenor, baritone and bass (ad lib)), 3 cornets or trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, baritone horn, euphonium, tuba, string bass, timpani, xylophone, handbells, tubular bells (ad lib), snare drum, bass drum and cymbals. Originally entitled Dublin Bay, the first movement of Lincolnshire Posy is the shortest a brisk, simple, lilted melody in 6/8 time. The main theme of the movement is presented first in the muted trumpets and is set against a war-like motif in the horns. Like the fourth movement, this movement ends in a serene, s...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=947446