Grainger Lincolnshire Posy Cla

'The Lost Lady Found' is the final most conservative setting of Grainger's 'musical wildflowers' masterpiece for band 'Lincolnshire Posy'. Developing bands can now play an ideal adaptation of this classic band repertiore.Johnnie's careful scoring eliminates some of the extreme range demands of the original yet is extremely accurate in retaining Grainger's magnificent compositional genius throughout. This work of merit is a must for every concertband library!

from A Lincolnshire Posy-From Grainger's masterwork for band Lincolnshire Posy  here is the second movement smartly adapted for young level by Michael Sweeney.This edition uses a lower key for range considerations yet retains all of the charm and beauty of the original. What a terrific opportunity to instill an appreciation of Grainger in your young players! Dur: 2:30

Baritone Voice And Piano Performing Score-Composed in 2012 the two pieces in Sadie Harrison’s Heartoutbursts! take their inspiration from traditional English folk.'...in the folk-song there is to be found the complete history of a people recorded by the race itself through the heartoutbursts of its healthiest output. It is a history compiled with deeper feeling and more understanding than can be found among the dates and data of thegreatest historian...'(Percy Grainger 1922)In 1905 Joseph Taylor won a Lincolnshire folksong competition with his rendition of Brigg Fair a song he had learnt from a gypsy. Australian composer Percy Graingersubsequently published a setting in his Lincolnshire Posy with Delius using the tune in his rhapsody Brigg Fair. Both composers sought to vivify the tradition of English folksong celebrating not only the ancient tunes and words but also the qualities of particular folksingers like Joseph Taylor.Harrison’s own Australian Heartoutbursts! follow unashamedly in the Grainger tradition with echoes of the original folktunes underpinning both songs Brigg Fair and The Seeds of Love. Although different in character both texts use similar images as analogies for the joys and despairing associated with love - the lark and violet symbolize youth the lily as virginity the red rose as true love and the willow representing falsehood and abandonment.

Using melodic fragments from each of the six movements of Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy as foils for each other Steven Bryant has created a unique and brash experiment in musical juxtaposition! Grainger described his work asa bouquet of musical “wildflowers ” and Bryant describes “ImPercynations” as a “genetically-altered crossbred hybrid offspring...a musical Franken-flower”. An unconventional gem. (duration:ca. 5:15)

Score-Composed in the late 1930s this piece can be considered a simplified companion to the more intricate Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger. Duration ca. 13 minutes.