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Grainger tells us that Arrival Platform Humlet conveys the sense of “Awaiting the arrival of belated train bringing one’s sweetheart from foreign parts; great fun! The sort of thing one hums to oneself as an accompaniment to one’s tramping feet as one happily…
Style: Percussion
Composer: Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher: Aux Arcs Music
Mosaic is a bright and cheerful ensemble piece that truly recalls the idea of a mosaic. Fragments of themes travel through the instruments at a breakneck pace from beginning to end. Grade Level: 4 Copyright: 2005 Duration: 5:45 Publisher: C. Alan Publications…
Style: Brass, Percussion
Composer: Frederick Speck
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Elgar’s Elegy for Strings provided the inspiration for Paschal Mystery: Elegy for Marimba Quartet. Originally conceived as a work for choir, Paschal Mystery quotes and evokes the Latin chant Victimae Paschali Laudes. Grade Level: 3 Copyright: 2013 Number of…
Style: Percussion
Composer: Sean Sweeden
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Percy Grainger’s Shepherd’s Hey is an iconic work in the Grainger oeuvre, along with "Irish Tune from County Derry," "Handel in the Strand," "Molly on the Shore," and "Country Gardens," establishing Grainger as perhaps the greatest “setter” of British folk…
Style: Percussion
Composer: Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher: Aux Arcs Music
Program NotesPercy Grainger was a multi-faceted artist. He was one of the great pianists of the first half of the twentieth century; the most important English folk song collector of his time; one of the greatest “setters” of folk song of any time; a musical…
Style: Percussion
Composer: Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher: Aux Arcs Music