Sight read this about 37 years ago. Still trying to figure out where we're at.

@bboy1481

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@padraicfanning7055

5 жыл бұрын

Good luck during Movement 3.

@chicken2jail

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah 3 and 5 were a bit tricky.

@juscholten4248

5 жыл бұрын

funny

@MrJdsenior

5 жыл бұрын

You mean from 34 years ago, you are still trying? MAN, THAT'S PERSISTENCE. Kudos!

Homie Grainger was sitting there with Lord Melbourne trying to figure out time signatures and he was finally like "how about no time signature, and how about 1 eight note there, and how about add an extra and onto that 2/4 bar".

@pilipilipilipilipili

4 жыл бұрын

2/4 and 1/2 like 5/8 with accents (or accents rule at the beginning) wouldn't mess heads as much.

@josephmullin9369

3 жыл бұрын

@@pilipilipilipilipili True. But Grainger was never one to follow conventions in his notation.

@perpendicularfifths7312

3 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing a story that grainger once wrote a column about how the concept of rhythm was absurd and should be abolished. If i remember correctly, the publication was not happy with that take and the had to get one of his much more highly respect russian contemporaries (i cant quite remember who) to come in and write a column dismantling graingers argument the very next week.

@clefablelover7801

3 жыл бұрын

He gave up trying to put a time signature to the town drunk, a war vet.

@zebmiller510

2 жыл бұрын

there‘s 2 1/2 / 4 time in my score in band :|

You know, for a guy who played piano naked in the dark, Grainger wrote some dang good music!

@mroxannevh

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah he practice self-flagellation

@jacobbass6226

4 жыл бұрын

I never heard of this. And then I looked it up. Kind of regretting it.

@graeme011

4 жыл бұрын

@@jacobbass6226 The truth will set you free!

@jacobbass6226

4 жыл бұрын

graeme011 it apparently set him free too.

@andylarusch3120

4 жыл бұрын

Arranged good music, too.

One of my music teachers is quite an old man, and his father was a close friend of Percy Grainger's. Once in our school band we played a simplified arrangement of the lost lady found, and he told us a story. One day when he was a young child, Grainger came to stay with his family for just a few days. He remembers one morning during that time, that his mother woke him up very early in the morning, before the sun had even begun to rise, and told him that he would want to come downstairs. He went downstairs and found Grainger practicing on the piano they had in their living room. He says he remembers that as one of his earliest musical memories: the amazing opportunity of getting to watch a famous composer practice up close, firsthand, in his living room.

@Lyork

4 жыл бұрын

Who was your music teacher's father? Just curious! Thank you!

@katechambers3302

3 жыл бұрын

How wonderful.

@cubedude99

Жыл бұрын

Wow

@captainm7722

Жыл бұрын

What an amazing story! Do you have others? We played Granger all throughout middle school and high school in the 90's, and I'd always get giddy when we did because he wrote such full-featured clarinet and bass clarinet parts, and I always enjoyed the sway between being a bouncy instrument to a sweeping choral reed voice counterpart to a stoic brass melody, or the rising tension in a bevvy of ostinato arpeggios underpinning a swirl of upward momentum leading to a big fanfare crash...I could just go on and on, but I've never heard of anyone that KNEW him personally! I'd love to hear any more stories of the man if you have any to share.

@richardjchandler

Жыл бұрын

Loved that story!

"Louden a bit by bit all you can" This is what we need in life

@izhaanahmed3038

6 жыл бұрын

maybe his plot is to turn english phrases into the regular text to put in music, so instead of things like "andante cantabile" you write "kinda slow but make it smooth, like a voice"

@korhonenmikko

6 жыл бұрын

Izhaan Ahmed, Grainger was a bit of a weird racist who didn't want to use non-Anglo-Saxon words. He made up a whole lot of funny new words, some of which are listed here: strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/a-percy-grainger-glossary/. However it's clear he wasn't a linguist since many of those words actually have French roots.

@izhaanahmed3038

6 жыл бұрын

good article. interesting subject to cover

@mroxannevh

4 жыл бұрын

No Italian here if you know what I mean

@carolinemohr8169

4 жыл бұрын

You can see his Britishness in the things he writes in his music

This guy was a bit ahead of this time, wasn't he?

@whatno5090

5 жыл бұрын

not even, hes like in his own entire sort of bubble separate from everything else

My brain is melting. Really good music, but what the heck is going on.

@coloraturaElise

4 жыл бұрын

Shhhhh! The divine Grainger is speaking to you....listen to him tell all about what wind bands can do.

@tommytimp

4 жыл бұрын

The literal answer is he made wax recordings of oldsters singing these classic folksongs in all corners of the UK, then set them literally as he heard them melody-wise, which is why so many of these have odd time-signatures to begin with. Then he did what Grainger do in terms of rearranging the furniture.

@rugcutter284

3 жыл бұрын

And the meter reflects the mental state of old guys smashed drunk in the pub, singing him the tunes while inebriated

I still remember the second day of rehearsals back in the early 2000's when I was in college right at @9:42 when the woodwinds just blew everyone away on those runs. Man, they sounded so good, even our director had that "holy sh*t!" look on his face, clearly impressed.

@scottkuehn2775

Жыл бұрын

i never noticed that run before. Thanks for pointing it out!

@AlexE5250

Жыл бұрын

My memory of it is spending hours of high school band rehearsals sitting there with my trombone and nothing to do because we’ve been helping the woodwinds practice these runs.

There's nothing more exhausting than playing the bass clarinet in this piece.

@zach.f30

2 жыл бұрын

Or bari sax, that was a hard task

@247msfly

2 жыл бұрын

But oh so much fun, god I miss it😭

Funny how a piece of music can bring you back to the exact moment you played it, 1st movement will always bring me to tears. Thanks for the upload

@sushirice6751

3 жыл бұрын

You were also traumatized by trying to play this? I thought I was the only one, huh.

@margielincoln8758

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@adamauten7358

2 жыл бұрын

completely agree

@mugsyjpg

Жыл бұрын

Horkstow Grange actually makes me really nostalgic

@sevenlayer8780

7 ай бұрын

Totally. I go back instantly to college 30+ yrs ago, wind ensemble, and being mesmerized by Lost lady Found. ALTHOUGH - and perhaps I'm wrong here, I always thought Grainger ended the piece on a D Major, like a classic Picardy 3rd, however here I'm hearing the work end on a min 6 chord. Is there an alternate version that ends on the tonic major?

Grainger is quite possibly one of my favorite composers, I love playing his pieces. His pieces make me tear up, give me chills, etc. I think Australian Up Country Tune is my favorite. I remember when we played this in my university wind ensemble, I think I tripled on 1st Bb Clarinet, Eb Clarinet, and Alto Clarinet... lol

Grainger certainly knew how to feature the horns. I have played this piece many times, I enjoy playing all of his music.

@mugsyjpg

Жыл бұрын

Which movement is your favourite?

As a contrabass clarinet player, I’m living for the bass clarinet parts. The recognition is incredible!

@fatcontroller12

5 жыл бұрын

Eyy another contrabass player! Yay!

@mroxannevh

4 жыл бұрын

Grainger loved his clarinets he loved wins too. Yeah great fat loves for the clarinet. It's kind of a loss instrument these days

@autumnrawr2

4 жыл бұрын

Not much of us is there haha...

@katieking165

4 жыл бұрын

You’re a contrabass clarinetist ???? Ooooooh!!! I love that instrument so much! Keep shining ya light!! ❤️

@ursismin2463

4 жыл бұрын

Katie King yes! i love it too! really miss playing it since we went into lockdown :((

Percy Grainger literally lived in the town where I was born in New York (and where my grandparents live), White Plains!! My grandfather worked in an old law office there for several years, and it used to be right next to Grainger's house before it got demolished (Grainger's house is now a historical landmark).

In this music there floats a kind of mist suitable for dreams and gentle drifts. A climate of rediscovered peace that we sometimes feel without knowing exactly why during certain summer nights! these artists build a discourse of interiority, of breathing, which knows how to make room for silence.

I adore Vaughn Williams and Holst but I don’t think Grainger gets enough credit for how wonderfully inventive his takes on the folk music revival of his time were. There’s so much cleverness and sophistication, but it’s not too clever for its own good, or cold, quite the opposite. Sometimes it reminds me of Britten’s brilliant folk song realizations. I wonder if Britten took any inspiration from him.

@squilliamfancyson7567

Жыл бұрын

Very insightful comment, I would like to keep in touch

My first time to hear this... and my, that harmony in the bar at 4:00 is stunning!

@oslo7718

3 жыл бұрын

I know right 😭😭

@brainwashalpha5495

Жыл бұрын

indeed

@sevenlayer8780

7 ай бұрын

that's a little F7#9, b13 for those scoring at home. :) wonderful how he preserves the Ab in the melody (so-mi-re-do-la) while boosting the harmony with the A nat below. He does the same thing in the next half of the bar, underpinning the Db in the melody with a D nat for a Bb7#9 chord. it's still highly functional, as our ears hear the progression from III, to vi, to ii (in the next bar), but the excitement is ratcheted up.

This might be best recording of Horkstow Grange, no joke. I hear all the instruments super clearly!

Fun fact: Grainger’s mother dressed him in girl’s clothes until age 12. But all kidding aside, his counterpoint skills are right up there with Bach.

This doesn't make me regret playing saxophone as much!

@GregBrownsWorldORacing

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Mirko, No regret - be proud. At least we know our father's name. He was Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax!! There's a word for people who don't know who their father is, but I shan't repeat it. it's considered rude in some circles.

Thank you so much for posting this masterpiece. This takes me back playing in Wind Bands and especially pieces by Grainger where music convention is thrown out but the pure musicality isn't. His painstaking nature of notating these pieces and then orchestrating in his unique style. Yet the quality of the singer and song is not lost and that ,I believe, was his aim. He saved from obscurity a number of these amazing gems. Bravo! 😃

@Krumpulous

5 жыл бұрын

What's fascinating is he recorded the vocals on wax records and still managed to emulate the same timbre and quality of a voice through instruments.

My favorite moments from this absolute masterpiece :) 0:18 sax interruption 0:31 cool Grainger chord 0:41 super cool powerful horn 1:04 another awesome Grainger chord 2:47 really cool layering and texture and the polyrhythm makes it stick more 4:02 another awesome chord 4:13 same cool layering and polyrhythm as before 4:33-5:15 absolutely love this quartet with the bassoon and oboe two counts behind the picc and alto clarinet to echo. This section also brings out a lot of really cool unexpected harmonies like at 5:07 as a result of the instruments grainger chose to use in the quartet and because of the echoing throwing in harmonies 5:14 really cool offbeat clarinet chords 5:19 this entire soprano solo is really gut wrenching for me i love its texture and flavor 6:17 awesome low brass 6:31 AAAAAAAAH YES 7:09 another awesome brass part 7:34 cool trumpet bitonality 8:14 whooaaaaaa those saxes sound so weird I love it 8:20 start of poachers is back but changed up 9:43 wow that sounds so hard 9:58 love the bassoon/bari sax part here 10:26 cool brass sound 10:39 WHOOOOOOOAAAAAAA

Damn, this is an amazing interpretation.

@brownie3454

4 жыл бұрын

I've had the honor of being conducted by Colonel Graham for an honor band when I was in highschool. It was really special

@jacobbass6226

4 жыл бұрын

Grumpy Cat same it fantastic we played Prelude Siciliano and Rondo and his interpretation is on point.

@bthomson

2 жыл бұрын

Grumpy cat - I thought the word honor said "horror!". Very different! Never mind!

Such good memories of this piece - trying to play 10 different handbells by myself in the last movement with only two hands. Good times. Best part: 3:58

@metroidnerd9001

4 жыл бұрын

Your band played the end with handbells? That's awesome! I think they fit the best with the end of the piece out of the "Tuneful Percussion" listed.

@blobberooni

3 жыл бұрын

@@metroidnerd9001 agreed! When it all came together it sounded so cool. Now that I think about it, it was split between two of us, still quite the challenge.

@adamauten7358

2 жыл бұрын

yes that moment is glorious!

I don't know why this came up into my recommended but wow, I'm glad it did, seriously beautiful music.

@brownie3454

4 жыл бұрын

if you like this I highly recommend you check out Gustav Holst's First and Second Suites for military band. you won't be disappointed!

One has to wonder what Grainger might’ve been able to dream up with modern percussion sounds.

@natheniel

5 жыл бұрын

Look up his ‘In a Nutshell Suite’

@the_biblioklept2533

4 жыл бұрын

Natheniel Becken That sums up the answer to their question in a nutshell

@josephmullin9369

3 жыл бұрын

Seconding "Nutshell," check out "The Warriors" as well. Grainger used pitched percussion as their own tonal section in both these pieces. He attempted to popularize the use of staff bells in a few of his compositions, although they never really caught on with other composers.

@Mathieu_Poirier_Piano

2 жыл бұрын

Also make sure to check out his arrangement of Debussy's Pagodes. I just read about it recently myself and have been mesmerized by it for the last several days. Great use of pitched percussion.

This work is really a marvel of scoring and orchestration. And it's a delight to listen to as well. This recording in particular is flawless, really incredible playing.

Wonderful to see the score of this band music. Grainger was such an imaginative composer!

played this back in 7th grade, gives me nostalgia just listening to this.

This is the best band music ever! Oh, second to the Holst Suite

@GregBrownsWorldORacing

3 жыл бұрын

If you're a sax player you are thrilled to get band music. So discriminated against. Especially by the French!

Perfect performance, and I love reading the score along with the music. Thank you!

This legit saved me. We didn’t have all the percussion parts in the folder and I only found out today rip. So I was supposed to be playing like almost all of movement 5

Bravo USAF band on a magnificent performance of my favourite piece for band. A true masterpiece

Thank you, thank you THANK YOU for whomever put this together!

SENSATIONAL! Thank you so much for the score too!

Played this in college. Fell in love with Grainger then! (Charles Ives, too!)

Grainger walked the countryside writing down the music exactly as the melodies were sung to him. As with most vocalists,even today, they took some liberties with the melodies and this is what transpired.Realise that the singers were just common folk and not professional singers.

oh the memories, this one takes me back. never loved the last movement but wow what a piece. beautiful harmonies

Percy Grainger's extraordinary band piece, Lincolnshire Posy, is so unique and remarkable. fun to see this condensed score to read with the music.

I swear to God this and a Rite of Spring is the hardest scores in the world to follow. State law!

My favorite movement is probably Horkstow Grange, but it’s tough. This whole thing is wonderful from beginning to end.

Sublime. As great as (almost) anything out there.

Imagine being a euphonium trying to count rests and then 12 french horns come in at 0:42

@wyattwahlgren8883

3 жыл бұрын

All you have to do is look at the conductor and count like a madman.

@MrGrappl

3 жыл бұрын

“Oh I mean I can count this, it’s a bit chaotic bu- ok WHAT THE FUCK”

as beautiful as movement 5 is, it’s pure hell to play

love jamming out to this especially movement 1

Amazing performances of Graingers masterpiece. U S air force band, and mr Graham is in world class. How ever, People a little more than avarge interst, shuld lissen to Fennell and The Cleveland Symphonic Winds. IT is a very different interpretation of "mighty posy" . mandatory for enthusiasts.(Telarc ‎- DG-10050)

as a pianist/violinist i'm not very familiar with the band repertoire but this is absolutely beautiful

@CECS1

7 ай бұрын

Grainger wrote some amazing works for orchestra. In a nutshell is one of my favorites.

Percy Grainger:Lincolnshire Posy 1. Lisbon (Matrózdal):Vivace 00:05 2. Horkstow Grange (A fösvény és embere: helyi tragédia):Scorre lentamente 01:31 3. Rufford Park orvvadászok (orvvadász dal):Fluentemente 04:29 4. A lendületes fiatal tengerész (visszatért igazi szerelméhez):Vivace 09:12 5. Lord Melbourne (Háborús dal):Pesante, feroce 10:52 6. Az elveszett hölgy megtalálva (táncdal):Vivace,ma robusto 14:19 Egyesült Államok Légierejének Zenekara Vezényel:Lowell E. Graham

Omg. Thank you SO MUCH for uploading this. I have been looking for a condensed score for the longest time and haven't been able to find one, (IMSLP hasn't had it for years, despite it being near public domain if I recall correctly) so this is a great find! Thank you so much again for this. :)

@Purple1222119Music

7 жыл бұрын

This copy was sufficient enough for my needs, and I absolutely appreciate it! A better copy is always a plus, though. :) Chester by Schuman would be an awesome find too, but that piece is more recent, so it probably won't be freely available for a while.

@mason3845

6 жыл бұрын

There seems to be a condensed score on IMSLP now, but I don't know if it's the same score used in the video.

@Octavestorm

6 жыл бұрын

Excellent! The quality on IMSLP is much higher than the one I used in this video.

@karah6011

4 жыл бұрын

It's in public domain now!

Good dynamic contrasts and phrasing in this version-very enjoyable...

bass clarinet finally plays in bass clef? thank god man

Louden lots is the best phrase I’ve ever heard

@cjkellner

3 жыл бұрын

slacken

So many gorgious brass chords. Short but oh so sweet!

I had to call my old band teacher these songs were burning I'm my skull! I didn't remember the name till I talked to him.

danke für Sendung

played libson, horkstow grange, and lost lady found for community band. loved it so much mainly cause of my solo in lost lady lmao

The Horkstow Grange movement is very familiar to me. A lot of times, our band would warm up on that one (more simplified version), and it was always one of my favorites. I had no idea it was from this. But the chords are so much nicer in this one.

ONE OF MY FAVORITE BAND PIECES IN THE 1970 S

@Lyork

4 жыл бұрын

I was also in music school in the 70's. So nice to read this. Seems like "yesterday" but really isn't, is it? Grainger is my favorite composer...hands down. I am a professional musician and his pieces are the only ones to make me cry more than once.

I would LOVE to conduct this someday!!!

I used this video to teach myself Lord Melbourne on the piano. Would recommend!

Great memories of playing this in Symphonic Band.

I played this at all eastern honor band! Love it!

Lost lady found is very similar to green bushes. Great music.

Sooo we are playing this at my high school this year and I freakin love this piece. We are only playing movements 1,2,4 and 6 for uil. I am the only one of the baritone part and it makes me want to die sometimes lol. But I enjoy this masterpiece so much. Movement 5 is my favorite tbh!(:

@301klink2

5 жыл бұрын

lol it's Madelyn 4th movement baritone solo is fun

Beautiful

Finally a piece were transposing instruments play in the actual treble clef!!!! UAU

Percy's all, "That's not a time signature.... ........ ... ... Now THAT'S a time signature."

I played alto clarinet on the second arrangement. Also played first car not on the third and fourth arrangement. Those were good days. This song still got stuck in my head 15 years later.

@RyanEntnerMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, alto clarinet!

Im working on a Wind Quintet arrangement of Lincolnshire Posy. Would be useful in my study of this piece! thanks!

Mom, can we have a reduction of the score? We have a reduction at home, sweetie. This.

Former oboe player here. I still want to fight Percy Granger for that dumbass solo in the third movement (and about a hundred other things). The Brisk Young Sailor is a bop though

This is real good, can't lie.

Played an arrangement of Harkstow Grange back in 7th grade (an easier arrangement). It's still one of my favorite pieces of music even now 5 years later.

I'm glad that the proper version of movement 3 was done. It's just not the same with the alternate version. Of course, I'm a bassoonist and have played lead on this several times.

My band hates this, but I really want to play it.

Love the passing notes!

This piece is quite difficult, especially for the flute/picc - the Young Brisk Sailor part has those sixteenth triplets that arpeggio up and down the scale and the movement with its 2½ time signatures. As a picc player in this piece in college, I was having quite a challenging time with those two movements..lol...

I played this when I was 17 playing contrabass clarinet

We are performing three movements of this for our first concert of the semester and the other three for our spring concert in our wind ensemble. Let me tell you. Counting in this and a piece called Nitro(amazing piece) by Frank ticheli is just bannanas

When I played this in my band, the music notation was hilarious. There was one that said, for the soprano que "if your Band is lacking in the soprano sax then play this"

Movement 3 and 5 are very underrated ngl, my favorites are movements 1 & 3 though and the 2 as a close second. I love them all though.

When I played this in college, the 3rd mvmt began at concert C and no sop sax (flugelhorn).

@nate7251

4 жыл бұрын

Grainger wrote two versions for some movements

YES THIS IS FANTASTIC

we sight read this today… I still have no idea where we are

This is the audition song for my schools wind ensemble and I think that this will be a challenge that it will be hard

My favorite movements are 2 and 3.

Nice Music!

However you define the word masterpiece this is surely one of them and is especially brilliant harmonically. Also the Brisk Young Sailor movement has to be the best depiction of premature ejaculation in music (though I admit they're probably not many of them.)

@douwemusic

7 жыл бұрын

peter owen Daphnis et Chloé, after the Pantomime

@ChristianPaulson-Music

6 жыл бұрын

I had a Lhasa Opso that I named Daphnis Ann Chloe. Yep...I'm a music nerd. To see a band play the complete Posy well is a real treat.

@douwemusic

6 жыл бұрын

The Pantomime is a flirt between the two and after that they have sex including a premature ejaculation, is what I meant

@henrygingercat

6 жыл бұрын

Just listened and you're absolutely right. Perhaps we should compile a "Music Lover's Guide to .......

@WheeljacksScoreVideos

6 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry, what??? How have I never heard about this?

Bb clarinets jamming to the 3rd movement while the alto and Eb clarinets are suffering :D but we get to suffer plenty later

@shmaney

Жыл бұрын

as a 1st Bb clarinet mvt 4 makes me want to drop out of music school😭

11:24 WHAT THE ACTUAL CRUD ARE THOSE TIME SIGNATURES????

He perished when I was 1 year old. This guy definately scored for sax, because they were well established by 1937. Percy was quite a case: a vegetarian who despised vegetables and would never play Country Gardens on request. I guess he wanted people to request Lincolnshire Posy and other works instead.

Why is it that often in his score instead of specifying precisely the instruments (clarinets, flutes, bassoons, saxophones, trombones, trumpets, etc.) he specifies merely groups of instruments (low reeds, brass, woodwinds, etc.)?

@xavierramos6651

Жыл бұрын

Condensed scores are like musical shorthand.

I played 3rd trumpet on this piece in high school....most boring semester ever (there is only about 5 minutes of playing in the entire piece) but at least there was good music to listen to

Rufford park almost sounds a little holst-esque, if holst was american.

@rylandcook5237

5 жыл бұрын

Grainger is Australian.

@NFace23

5 жыл бұрын

And the composition is Irish lol

@Krumpulous

5 жыл бұрын

And technically the Americans borrowed from the French

@stefanalexanderlungu1503

3 жыл бұрын

@@Krumpulous And Aaron Copland borrowed from Mexico

@GregBrownsWorldORacing

3 жыл бұрын

Of course it's just me, but I also think The Lost Lady Found to be holst-esque.

Robert Schumann Quote : Composing something real unique is writing down a melody/set of notes that no one else ever had done before.... ♫♪

Thanks so much for putting this together. It was my great honor to play this piece in state honor band when I was young. As I remember we closed with Bernstein’s Candide overture! How lucky can a young musician get?

That euphonium solo in mvt 5 sounded like it was played by a British brass band player....but it's an American band!

This seems like a good group to plug my channel to. Believe it or not, Grainger actually wrote things other than Lincolnshire Posy and "Country Gardens" (sometimes he didn't even use folk-tunes [crazy, almost like a... composer]) 😂 Stuff for voice, orchestra, organ, choir, double choir, piano, harmonium, 2 pianos, 19 pianos, and even arrangements that call for banjos and the like. Check it out!

What a fabulous performance. Bravo and thanks to all involved. (Does anyone else think the Brisk Young Sailor is a musical depiction of premature ejaculation?)

I can't see any rall, or pause indicated at the end of bar 11. Why is this bar (and phrase) not being conducted and played 'a tempo' throughout?