Folk Tune (Goossens)
Eugene Goossens (arr. Percy Aldridge Grainger)
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General Info
Year: 1923 / 1942
Duration: c. 3:40
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Piano
Publisher: Yale University School of Music
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The transcriptions entitled Chosen Gems for Winds included mostly works by older composers. However, the pianist, conductor and composer, Sir Eugene Goossens, (1893–1962), was a friend and contemporary of Grainger’s. The wind band version of Goossens’ piano piece was finished by Grainger on 31 August 1942. Goossens had published this folk tune as the first of Two Ballades, Op. 38. The folk tune is Rosebud in June, written down in the Journal of the Folk Song Society, collected from William King by Cecil Sharp in Somerset, 1904. This popular sheep-shearing song was also used at the beginning of Gustav Holst’s A Somerset Rhapsody .
- Program Note from Naxos
Media
State Ratings
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Performances
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- DuPage (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) Community Concert Band (Terry Redford, conductor) - 11 March 2019
- Texas State University (San Marcos) Wind Ensemble (Rodney Schueller, conductor) – 24 March 2011 (CBDNA 2011 National Conference, Seattle, Wash.)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Fantasy (1924/1961)
- Folk Tune (arr. Grainger) (1923/1942)
- Sheep Shearing Song (arr. Grainger; ed. Rogers) (1904/1923/1942/2017)
Resources
- List of Compositions by Eugene Aynsley Goossens. Wikipedia Accessed 13 August2021
- "Percy Grainger (1882–1961). Complete Music for Wind Band • 1." Naxos. Web. Accessed 13 August 2021