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The Lads of Wamphray Ballad

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Historical Influences | The Lads of Wamphray Ballad
The Lads of Wamphray Ballad: A Preface

In 2010, while reading Kay Dreyfus’ The Farthest North of Humanness (selected letters of Percy Grainger from 1901-1914), I stumbled across a footnote mentioning Percy Grainger’s The Lads of Wamphray March (one of my favorite Grainger numbers, and the first example … Read More

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Historical Influences | The Lads of Wamphray Ballad
Percy Grainger strikes a blow for “the common folk”

“the composer has wished to express the devil-may-care dare-deviltry of the cattle-raiding, swashbuckling English and Scottish borderers of the period so grimly yet thrillingly portrayed in the border ballads collected and published by Scott, Motherwell, Jamieson, Johnson, Buchan, Kinloch, Swinburne … Read More

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