The Duke of Marlborough
composer: Percy Aldridge Grainger
Fanfare
Instrumentation: brass band
Orchestra instrumentation: 4 trumpets (or cornets) · alto saxophone · tenor saxophone · 2 bassoons · baritone saxophone or euphonium · 3 trombones · bass tuba · cymbal · double bass
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 2' 30''
Year of composition: 1939
Edition: score and parts
28 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-2201-2476-1
Order number: ED 12538
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Description
Based on the English folkong "The Duke of Marlborough". The first thime heard (behind platform) it typifies memories of long-past wars - vague, far-off, poetic. The second time (on platform) it typifies war in the present - fast-moving, close at hand, debonair, drastic.
Recordings
Lincolnshire Posy (2009)
Percy Aldridge Grainger- The Duke of Marlborough
- Lincolnshire Posy
- The Merry King
- Children's March
- Colonial Song
- Mock Morris
- Shepherd's Hey
- Irish Tune from Country Derry
- + The Gum-Suckers March, Molly on the Shore, Spoon River, After-Word, Lads of Wamphray
Dallas Wind Symphony · Jerry Jenkins (conductor)
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