The Bride’s Tragedy is a Grade 6, well-suited for the accomplished collegiate wind band. Length 10′. About the piece: In a questionnaire competed in the early 1950’s for the volume Musikkens Verden: Musik fra A-Z, Percy Grainger listed The Bride’s Tragedy, a setting of A.C. … Read More
Our new store is under construction. For ordering information, contact clragsdale@me.com Scored for full band, including large mallet ensemble, this setting uses Grainger’s Lord Melbourne as its wind-setting model. The opening solo, scored originally by Grainger for French horn, has been … Read More
Our new store is under construction. For ordering information, contact clragsdale@me.com This setting of Molly on the Shore re-assigns most of the “knuckle-buster” woodwind parts to 4 players on 4 marimbas, treating the marimbas like a soli group in … Read More
Our new store is under construction. For ordering information, contact clragsdale@me.com Father and Daughter is Nr. 1 of the Settings of Dance-Folksongs from the Faeroe Islands. “Composed in 1908-9, it is scored in the original for five solo voices, described … Read More
Our new store is under construction. For ordering information, contact clragsdale@me.com The Three Ravens is Nr. 41 of the British Folk-Music Settings. It is “lovingly and reverently dedicated to the memory of Edvard Grieg”, as are all the BFMS works. The piece … Read More
“…a balanced set of lyric and lively works.” -The Instrumentalist, April 2007A Grainger Threesome is a Grade 3, well-suited for the mature junior high or high school band. Duration 5′. Children’s March is one of the greatest of Percy Grainger’s band … Read More
“…this set of tunes is a fine addition to the repertoire.” -The Instrumentalist, Feb. 2006 Danny Deever started life as a poem from the “Barracks Room Ballads” of Rudyard Kipling, a major cultural hero of Percy Grainger’s. Grainger scored the … Read More
Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) Percy Grainger envisioned unique techniques of orchestration for the band by writing for complete families of instruments. His contribution to the orchestration of the Symphony Orchestra was to create a new family of instruments from the … Read More