Klarinet Archive - Posting 001148.txt from 1998/01

From: Jarle Brosveet <Jarle.Brosveet@-----.no>
Subj: Re: Grainger's band music
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:30:03 -0500

Dan Leeson wrote:
>The Irish
>Tune, Molly on the Shore, Shepherd's Hey, and many more of his
>folk song works have so many arrangements that it is not known
>which one came first. It could have been the band version but it
>is not likely that all of them were.

Roger Garrett wrote:
>In the case of
>Irish Tune, Shepherd's Hey, etc.... Grainger wrote the works for band.
>That he also arranged them for other genre does not change the fact that
>they are also written by the composer for band.

According to The Percy Grainger Companion, by Lewis Foreman, 1980:

Irish Tune - chorus 1902, wind band 1918
Molly on the Shore - 4 strings or string orch. 1907, wind band 1921
Shepherd's Hey - "room-music" (!) 1908/9, wind band 1918?
Country Gardens - "whistlers & instr." 1908, wind band 1953
Gumsucker's March - piano 1916, piano and wind band 1942

These are publication or MS dates. According to the Foreman book, only
the two Hill Songs (an unconventional choice of winds as originally
composed 1901-7), Over the Hills (with piano, 1919) and most of
Lincolnshire Posy were scored for wind band in the first place. Only
the first movement, Lisbon (Dublin Bay), was set for chorus in 1906.
The wind band version is from 1937. Of course, the tunes for the other
movements were sketched much earlier.

Jarle Brosveet