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
Commissioned by Tennessee Technological University for their centennial celebration, Centennial Fanfare works as a great short concert opener or prelude to a processional.Program NotesCentennial Fanfare is a short concert opener or prelude to a processional.…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Greg Danner
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Scored for 11 players (brass quintet, wind quintet, percussion) Costumes of the Sky is a dramatic tone poem for chamber winds. A vivid tapestry of instrumental color that includes doubling winds (fl./alto fl.; ob./Eng. hn.; cl./bass cl.) piccolo trumpet, and…
Style:
Woodwind, Brass, Percussion
Composer:
Greg Danner
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Danny Deever started life as a poem from the “Barracks Room Ballads” of Rudyard Kipling, a major cultural hero of Percy Grainger’s. Originally scored the for small male unison chorus, large male choir, and a large orchestra including saxophones and euphonium…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
Originally scored for 5 solo voices, a double mixed chorus, 3 orchestral groups of brass, strings, and mixed mandolins and guitars, Father and Daughter is one of Grainger's most exciting works. It may be performed as a standalone work or as a set called "…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
Written for narrator and band, The Greatest Generation was inspired by Tom Brokaw’s eloquent testament to the World War II generation. The music sets the background for a reading of four soldiers’ letters that highlight the emotion of those difficult times…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Greg Danner
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
from "The Jungle Book" Cycle
This 5-movement suite contains half of Grainger’s Jungle Book Cycle, including Morning Song in the Jungle, The Inuit, The Hunting Song of the Seeonee Pack, The Beaches of Lukannon, and .Program Notes"My Kipling 'Jungle Book' Cycle…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
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 a concerto grosso. This arrangement for 8 hands on 4 marimbas and band is a Grade 5, well-suited…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
Inspired by photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope, Nebula is a 3-movement symphony for winds. Some nontraditional effects, such as pitch bending, singing, and unmeasured sections. This piece reflects the sense of wonder and contemplation humanity shares…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Greg Danner
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
The Seven Wonders of the World were monuments that expressed the culmination of man’s ingenuity and imagination. They were architectural and engineering marvels, which inspire awe even today. The Great Pyramid of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Greg Danner
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications