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Author: Mindy
Date: 2002-03-01 10:28
My Wind Ensemble at schoole is playing Lincolnshire Posy by Grainger. It is to my understanding that it was originally done for Woodwind Quintet. I was wondering if any of y'all know where I can find it....or start looking...
Thank You!
Mindy
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Author: jez
Date: 2002-03-01 13:16
I'm pretty sure it was originally written for wind band. I've found arrangements for orchestra and for Brass quintet but none for woodwind quintet. If you wanted to do it you could get the version for brass and re-arrange it.
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Author: Sandra F. H.
Date: 2002-03-01 14:20
Ah...my favorite wind ensemble piece! Enjoy it! Percy Grainger was known for promoting wind ensemble pieces and bringing to these ensembles higher quality music written exclusively for winds, not taken from orchestral pieces. Try doing some research under "Percy Grainger". Online: www.google.com is a good one. Go into the advanced search for more specifics. I am unaware of a quintet arrangement.
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Author: William
Date: 2002-03-01 15:05
I've never heard of the ww quintet (and I have an exensive library)but I just wanted to say that I resently had the opportunity to play the bass clarinet part for L.P. in one of the wind ensembles which I play in. WHAT FUN!!!! Great piece of wind literature and you are lucky to belong to a band capable of playing such music. Good Clarineting (and if you find a quintet version, I would like to know)
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Author: Sally Gardens
Date: 2002-03-01 23:01
Woo-hoo! Bass clarinet in Lincolnshire Posy! I loved Rufford Park Poachers; one of my few moments to shine as the hard-working competent bass clarinetist I'd become by the end of high school. Incantation and Dance by John Barnes Chance is another good piece for indulging a bass clarinetist's inner showoff.
Anyway, I haven't heard of a woodwind quintet version, either -- I'm fairly sure LP was written for band -- but, by strange coincidence, it recently occurred to me that it would be wonderful to arrange some of Grainger's stuff for clarinet quartet and/or choir. (Some of it, of course, already uses the band's internal "clarinet choir.") Must be psychic vibes in the air tonight...oh, yeah. ;-)
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Author: Mindy
Date: 2002-03-02 13:31
Thanks everybody for answering me! I'll keep on searching. We had a guest conductor and he said that it was originally done for ww quintet. well.....thanks again!
Mindy
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Author: Jacy
Date: 2002-03-02 15:36
Never heard of that one, either. Weird coincidence as far as Grainger misinformation goes...we had a guest conductor do a workshop with us on Children's March and Lincolnshire last year and he said Children's was about, weirdly enough...Grainger's sex life, not frolicking children!
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Author: Sally Gardens
Date: 2002-03-03 01:33
Eeew, Jacy, I don't think I want to hear any more details on that rumor.... :-S It does seem, though, that Grainger's private life is popular matter for speculation -- either that or there are a lot of prurient band directors in our high schools -- because my H.S. band director used to insinuate rather broadly that Grainger was gay. Was he? Don't know, don't care. I just hope the "children" (of whatever gender) with whom he "marched" were metaphorical and not literal.
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Author: Sally Gardens
Date: 2002-03-03 01:35
By the way, if anyone does find that woodwind quintet version of Lincolnshire Posy, please post where you found it. I suspect the rest of us might want to check it out.
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Author: Ken
Date: 2002-03-08 02:28
This is a pitifully late post, thouht Mindy might want to know I was updating our library d-base at work today and stumbled across a WWQ arrangement plus "flute solo" (sextet) of Lincolnshire. It was written by one of our staff arrangers years back and it's not published or copyrighted. Looks very useable in a pro setting.
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