Lads of Wamphray, The

Percy Aldridge Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger (ed. Kreines)

General Info

Year: 1905/1941/2003
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Shattinger Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $185.00   |   Score Only - $45.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
Eb Clarinet
Bb Clarinet I-II-III
Eb Alto Clarinet
Bb Bass Clarinet
Soprano Saxophone
Alto Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Bass Saxophone
Cornets I-II-III
Trumpet (in Bb) I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium (Bass Clef & Treble Clef)
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This essential edition of the Grainger march features a freshly engraved full score and parts meticulously edited by Joseph Kreines. All the charm and wit of Grainger's music is preserved in this tour de force!

-Program note from publisher.

Grainger composed this march as a birthday gift for his mother in 1905, basing it on melodies and musical material from a Scottish "border ballad". The poem celebrates a bloody skirmish between two clans in 1593. In the march, Grainger sought to express the dare-deviltry of the cattle-raiding, swashbuckling English and Scottish "borderers" of the period as portrayed in collections of border ballads of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

--James Huff, 23 November 2008 (UTC) (from the program notes of The Claremont Winds, submitted with permission)

Commercial Discography

• Audio CD:Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra (Timothy Reynish, conductor)

Audio Links

Sample download; ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

• Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP I

Recent Performances

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• California Sate Long Beach Wind Symphony (John Carnahan, conductor) - 11 October 2012
• University of Illinois Symphony Band (Harry Begian, conductor) - 2011

Additional Works for Winds by this Composer

• Arrival Platform Humlet
• Australian Up-Country Tune (1905)
• Blithe Bells
• Children's March: "Over the Hills and Far Away"
• Colonial Song (1919)
• Country Gardens (1953)
• Died for Love
• Down Longford Way
• Duke of Marlborough Fanfare
• Early One Morning (arr. Kreines)
• English Waltz from "Youthful Suite" (tr. Rogers)
• Faeroe Island Dance
• Gumsucker's March (1942)
• Handel in the Strand
• Hill Song No. 1
• Hill Song No. 2
• The Immovable Do (1940)
• I'm Seventeen Come Sunday (tr. Daehn)
• Irish Tune from County Derry (1918)
• Lads of Wamphray March (1905/1937)
• Lincolnshire Posy (1937)
• Mock Morris
• Molly on the Shore (1920)
• Molly on the Shore (tr Ragsdale) (1978)
• Percy Grainger Portrait, A (ar. Wagner) (2010)
• The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart (1947)
• Scotch Strathspey and Reel
• Shepherd's Hey (1918)
• Spoon River (ar. Sheldon)
• The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
• Themes from Green Bushes (arr. L. Daehn)
• Two Grainger Sweets - Harvest Hymn and Mock Morris (ar Krienes)
• Walking Tune
• The Warriors
• Willow, Willow
• Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon (1949)

Additional Resources

• The Lads of Wamphray: Wikipedia
• Grainger, P., and J. Kreines (2003). Lads of Wamphray [musical score]. Carl Fischer: New York.
• Program Notes.Wikia.com