Scored for full band, including large mallet ensemble, this setting uses Grainger’s Lord Melbourne as its wind-setting model. The Duke of Marlborough Fanfare is a Grade 4, well-suited for the mature high school or collegiate band.Program NotesScored for full…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
Inspired by a painting of the same name, Fields of Grain as Seen from a Train seeks to musically describe the world someone on a train might observes as it is flying past them. Innovative scoring. Lovely melodies. Unmistakably Timothy Mahr!Program NotesDuring…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Timothy Mahr
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Extracted from Grainger's "Jungle Book Cycle," Morning Song in the Jungle celebrates the glory of nature at the beginning of the new day, and reminds us, at least a little bit, of Edvard Grieg's "Morning Mood,"the opening movement of his Peer Gynt Suite No. 1…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
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
Completed in 1902, Grainger's harmonization of this folk tune captures beautifully the transcendental nature of the text, with masterful use of chromaticism and the Grainger “gliding tones.”Program NotesThe Three Ravens is Nr. 41 of the British Folk-Music…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
Three Tragic Ballads is a Grade 6, well-suited for the accomplished collegiate wind band. The Three Tragic Ballads - “Danny Deever,” “The Three Ravens,” and “Father and Daughter” - can be played as a set or individually.Program NotesPercy Grainger (1882-1961…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
An air with a ‘Music Hall’ flavor embodying the London blend of gaiety with wistfulness so familiar in the performances of George Grossmith, Jr., and other vaudeville artists.Program NotesTune in a Popular London Style was “An attempt to write an air with a ‘…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, B. Kopetz
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications