Percy Aldridge Grainger

The manuscript of this Grainger folksong setting was originally completed in 1951. This setting by Ray Cramer was created from a copy of the manuscript from the University of Western Australia archive...

This is movement No. 2 from the suite 'In a Nutshell' scored for symphonic band by Mark Rogers. No actual folk songs or any other popular tunes were used in the suite, according to the composer. The p...

This is movement No. 2 from the suite 'In a Nutshell' scored for symphonic band by Mark Rogers. No actual folk songs or any other popular tunes were used in the suite, according to the composer. The p...

This is movement No. 2 from the suite 'In a Nutshell' scored for symphonic band by Mark Rogers. No actual folk songs or any other popular tunes were used in the suite, according to the composer. The p...

Grainger's 'Youthful Suite' for orchestra was compiled in the 1940's. He felt that movement 1, NORTHERN MARCH to be 'North-English or Scottish' in character owing to its melodic material and rhythms....

This American folk-dance set for concert band is based on the tune 'Spoon River', which a Captain Charles H. Robinson heard in 1857 being played by a rustic fiddler at a country dance in Brandford, Il...

This American folk-dance set for concert band is based on the tune 'Spoon River', which a Captain Charles H. Robinson heard in 1857 being played by a rustic fiddler at a country dance in Brandford, Il...

The fourth movement of Grainger's 'Youthful Suite, ' this piece was inspired by an early interest on the part of the composer for Oriental music. 'Stomping rhythms' featured in the work were inspired...

The fourth movement of Grainger's 'Youthful Suite, ' this piece was inspired by an early interest on the part of the composer for Oriental music. 'Stomping rhythms' featured in the work were inspired...

The fourth movement of Grainger's 'Youthful Suite, ' this piece was inspired by an early interest on the part of the composer for Oriental music. 'Stomping rhythms' featured in the work were inspired...

The fourth movement of Grainger's 'Youthful Suite, ' this piece was inspired by an early interest on the part of the composer for Oriental music. 'Stomping rhythms' featured in the work were inspired...