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Grainger, c. 1910s. The published musical compositions of Percy Grainger (1882–1961) fall into two main categories: (a) original works and (b) folksong settings. There are also numerous unpublished works, sketches and juvenilia. Grainger's compositional career lasted for more than half a century, from the end of the 19th century until the ...
Princes Bridge, Melbourne, designed by John Grainger. Grainger was born on 8 July 1882 in Brighton, south-east of Melbourne.His father, John Grainger, an English-born architect who had emigrated to Australia in 1877, won recognition for his design of the Princes Bridge across the Yarra River in Melbourne; [1] His mother Rose Annie Aldridge was the daughter of Adelaide hotelier George Aldridge.
Mock Morris is a musical work by Percy Grainger. [1] Grainger wrote versions for string orchestra and solo piano . [ 2 ] Composed in 1910, the work was first played at a concert in the Queen's Hall in 1912.
Lincolnshire Posy is a musical composition by Percy Grainger for concert band commissioned in 1937 by the American Bandmasters Association. [1] Considered by John Bird, the author of Grainger's biography, to be his masterpiece, the 16-minute-long work has six movements, each adapted from folk songs that Grainger had collected on a 1905–1906 trip to Lincolnshire, England.
Grainger thought highly of Deagan, describing their instruments as "marvelously perfected examples of American inventive ingenuity" in the program notes of the piece. [11] Alongside the xylophone and glockenspiel (which by then had cemented their place in the orchestra), Grainger added four novel instruments: a wooden marimba , [ a ] a steel ...
An arrangement by Grainger for two pianos was later published in 1920 after a performance by Leopold and Grainger for the Red Cross on 2 December 1919. [ 4 ] The title is a reference to Over the Hills and Far Away by Frederick Delius , who was a close friend of Grainger.
Grainger initially wrote Colonial Song in 1911 as a piano piece as a gift to his mother, Rose. Of his piece, Grainger wrote that it was "an attempt to write a melody as typical of the Australian countryside as Stephen Foster 's exquisite songs are typical of rural America". [ 1 ]
Molly on the Shore is a composition by Percy Aldridge Grainger.It is an arrangement of two contrasting Irish reels, "Temple Hill" and "Molly on the Shore", that presents the melodies in a variety of textures and orchestrations, giving each section of the band long stretches of thematic and counter melodic material. [1]