Percy Aldridge Grainger: Country Gardens

SKU: HL.49002618

ISBN 9790220107344. UPC: 884088053413. 9.0x12.0x0.216 inches.

SKU: HL.49030270

ISBN 9790220129476. 8.5x11.5x0.06 inches.

SKU: HL.49029644

ISBN 9790220128653. 8.75x11.5x0.01 inches.

SKU: HL.49030396

ISBN 9790220122743. 9.0x12.0x0.067 inches. Vocalise.

No traditional tunes of any kind are made use of in this piece, in which I have wished to express my personal feelings about my own country (Australia) and people, and also to voice a certain kind of emotion that seems to me not untypical of native-born Colonials in general.Perhaps it is not unnatural that people living more or less lonelily in vast virgin countries and struggling against natural and climatic hardships (rather than against the more actively and dramaticly exciting counter wills of their fellow men, as in more thickly populated lands) should run largely to that patiently yearning, inactive sentimental wistfulness that we find so touchingly expressed in much American art; for instance in Mark Twains Huckleberry Finn, and Stephen C. Foster's adorable songs, My Old Kentucky Home, Old Folks at Home, etc. I have also noticed curious, almost Italian-like, musical tendencies in brass band performances and ways of singing in Australia (such as a preference for richness and intensity of tone and soulful breadth of phrasing over more subtly and sensitively varied delicacies of expression) which are also reflected here.Percy Aldridge Grainger.

SKU: GI.G-656

The GIA Composer's Collection seeks to bring together into one place the master works by some of the most respected Wind Symphony composers of all time. Stunningly performed by the North Texas Wind Symphony under the direction of Eugene Corporon, this series also includes extensive liner notes about the composer and their contribution to the Wind Band. CONTENTS: Children’s March: “Over the Hills and Far Away” -  Irish Tune from Country Derry - Shepherd’s Hey - Colonial Song - The Immovable Do - Prelude in the Dorian Mode - Themes from “Green Bushes” - Down Longford Way - Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol - Ye Banks and Braes o’Bonnie Doon - Six Dukes Went A-Fishin’ - Early One Morning - Lincolnshire Posy - “Lads of Wamphray” March - Irish Tune - Molly on the Shore - Australian Up-Country Tune - Handel in the Strand - O Mensch bewein’ dein’ Sunde gross - Country Gardens - Shenandoah - The “Gumsuckers” March - Harvest Hymn - The Warriors.

SKU: HL.49029748

ISBN 9790220108563. 9.0x12.0x0.075 inches.