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    Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 1882 – 20 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to...
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    2019. He conducted chorus and orchestra in August 2012 in works by Percy Grainger, including Tribute to Foster, and subsequently recorded them. He recorded...
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    The published musical compositions of Percy Grainger (1882–1961) fall into two main categories: (a) original works and (b) folksong settings. There are...
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  • Country Gardens (category Compositions by Percy Grainger)
    twentieth century, then popularised by a diverse range of musicians from Percy Grainger and David Stanhope to Jimmie Rodgers. "Country Gardens" can be dated...
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    movement, whose founder, Robert Baden-Powell, was a friend of Kipling. Percy Grainger composed his Jungle Book Cycle around quotations from the book. Rudyard...
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    2005. Retrieved July 22, 2008. "The Percy Grainger House in White Plains, New York". The International Percy Grainger Society. Archived from the original...
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  • The Story of Percy Grainger, is a 1999 Australian drama film about some episodes in the life of the pianist and composer Percy Grainger. It stars Richard...
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  • William Barnes, Charles Dickens, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elias Molee, Percy Grainger, and George Orwell. English words gave way to borrowings from Anglo-Norman...
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    twentieth century folk revival. The Australian-born composer and folklorist Percy Grainger collected various shanties and recorded them on wax cylinders in the...
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    concert composers who have written for theremin include Bohuslav Martinů, Percy Grainger, Christian Wolff, Joseph Schillinger, Moritz Eggert, Iraida Yusupova...
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  • and Popular Poetry called it a "good specimen of a bowline chant". Percy Grainger recorded Charles Rosher of London England singing Shenandoah in 1906...
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  • Lullaby" by Percy Grainger Courtesy of Bardie Edition (used for the main title and Margaret's Arrival At Howards End) "Mock Morris" by Percy Grainger Courtesy...
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  • Lincolnshire Posy (category Compositions by Percy Grainger)
    by Percy Grainger for concert band commissioned in 1937 by the American Bandmasters Association. Considered by John Bird, the author of Grainger's biography...
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  • and 26. J. Bird, Percy Grainger (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 125. "What shall we do with a drunken sailor – Percy Grainger ethnographic wax...
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  • was used for heaving the windlass or capstan.[page needed] In 1906, Percy Grainger recorded Charles Rosher of London, England, singing "What shall we do...
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    carried out their own field work on traditional music. These included Percy Grainger and Ralph Vaughan Williams in England and Béla Bartók in Hungary. These...
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  • Molly on the Shore (category Compositions by Percy Grainger)
    Molly on the Shore is a composition by Percy Aldridge Grainger. It is an arrangement of two contrasting Irish reels, "Temple Hill" and "Molly on the Shore"...
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  • Brigg Fair (category Compositions by Percy Grainger)
    and folk song collector Percy Grainger. It is known for its use in classical music, both in a choral arrangement by Grainger and a subsequent set of orchestral...
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    it to the Grainger Museum at the Melbourne University in 1935. The piano has now been restored and is housed on display at the 'Percy Grainger Museum Melbourne...
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  • (1846–1937), English classical archaeologist Percy Grainger (1882–1961), Australian-born composer and pianist Percy Grant (Royal Navy officer) (1867–1952),...
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    Sargent, befriended Mrs. Patrick Campbell, visited and corresponded with Percy Grainger and worked closely with George Bernard Shaw, who wrote the role of the...
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  • called "Father's Wood I O" collected in 1906 in Scotter, Lincolnshire by Percy Grainger; both of the original transcriptions of these versions are available...
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    Michael. Percy Grainger and the Impact of the Phonograph, Folk Music Journal Vol. 4, No. 3 (1982), pp. 265-275 Bird, John (1999). Percy Grainger. Oxford...
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  • half of the twentieth century of former sailors singing the shanty. Percy Grainger recorded a man named Tom Roberts in Chelsea, London singing a version...
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    production was broadcast live. He has played historical characters such as Percy Grainger in Ken Russell's Song of Summer (1968), Richard Simmons in The Shadow...
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    recorded after coming to the attention of the composer and musicologist Percy Grainger. He popularised obscure and unique songs including "Brigg Fair", "Rufford...
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    subsequently orchestrated by Ravel, while the fifth was orchestrated by Percy Grainger, among others. Audio recording of Miroirs I. Noctuelles (4:19) II. Oiseaux...
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  • the name of his admired colleague Gade. In a 1944 letter to Ella Grainger, Percy Grainger mentioned planning to orchestrate the sonata. He apparently did...
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    mail that day. During 1906, he met the composer and pianist Percy Grainger in London. Grainger was a great admirer of Grieg's music and a strong empathy...
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    Ignaz Friedman / Percy Grainger / William Mudoch. Hyperion, 2003, p. 5. Bach-Grainger: Piano Transcriptions of Bach's Works by Percy Grainger Discography Archived...
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