Lost Lady Found

Percy Aldridge Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger (arr. Michael Sweeney)

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Subtitle: From 'Lincolnshire Posy' and Dance Song

General Info

Year: 1937 / 2011
Duration: c. 2:50
Difficulty: II-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $55.00; (digital) - $55.00   |   Score Only (print) - $7.50

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III

(percussion detail needed)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Lincolnshire Posy is a piece by Percy Grainger for concert band composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association. Considered Grainger's masterpiece, the 16-minute-long work is composed of six movements, each adapted from folk songs that Grainger had collected on a 1905–1906 trip to Lincolnshire, England.

Grainger wrote, "The last number of my set (The Lost Lady Found) is a real dance-song -- come down to us from the days when voices, rather than instruments, held village dancers together. Miss Lucy E. Broadwood, who collected the tune, writes of its origins as follows, in her English Traditional Songs and Carols (Boosey & Co.):"

Mrs. Hill, an old family nurse, and a native of Stamford (Lincolnshire), learned her delightful song when a child, from an old cook who danced as she sang it, beating time on the store kitchen-floor with her iron pattens. The cook was thus unconsciously carrying out the original intention of the 'ballad', which is the English equivalent of the Italian 'baletta' (from ballare, 'to dance'), signifying a song to dance-measure, accompanied by dancing.

Lost Lady Found is a quick, jumpy, straight 3/4 melody with usual accompaniment patterns. It is often conducted "in 1" rather than "in 3". This setting features a constantly repeating motif interrupted by one "bridge" section. Almost every section of the band is featured with the melody in this fast-paced finale.

- Program Note from Wikipedia and Thomas P. Lewis

Commercial Discography

• Audio CD: Douglas Anderson School of the Arts Wind Symphony (David Waybright, conductor, conductor) - 2011

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

• Indiana: ISSMA JUNIOR BAND GROUP I
• Maryland: II
• Wisconsin: Event 3000 Concert Band Class C

Performances

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• Temple University (Philadelphia, Penn.) Night Owls Campus Community Band (Mitchell Davis, conductor) – 22 April 2018
• Smoky Hills (Salina, Ks.) Middle School Honor Band (Carl T. Rowles, conductor) - 12 October 2017
• Meredith and Cowles 7th & 8th Grade Band (Des Moines, Iowa) – 16 May 2013
• Douglas Anderson School of the Arts (Jacksonville, Fla.) Wind Symphony (David Waybright, conductor, conductor) – 14 December 2011 (2011 Midwest Clinic)

Works for Winds by this Composer

• Annunciation Carol, The (unpublished)
• Arrival Platform Humlet (tr. Simpson) (1912/1916/1995)
• Arrival Platform Humlet (tr. Patterson) (1916/2011)
• Australian Up-Country Tune (arr. Bainum) (1930/1970)
• Bell Piece (ed. Duffy) (1935/1953/1991)
• Blithe Bells (arr. Jager) (1931/1989)
• Blithe Bells (ed. Ould) (1931/2013)
• Brigg Fair (arr. Ballenger) (1905/1991)
• Children's March (rev. Erickson) (1919/1971)
• Children's March (rev. Rogers) (1919/1995)
• Choral No 2 for Organ (as scorer; ed. Rogers) (1890/1941/20--?)
• Colonial Song (ed. Rogers) (1919/1997)
• Colonial Song (ed Topolewski) (ed. Topolewski) (1919/2001)
• Country Gardens (1918/1953) (arr. Sousa, Brion and Schissel)
• Country Gardens (arr. Karrick) (1918/2013)
• Country Gardens (arr. Clark) (1918/1931)
• Danish Folk Music Settings (arr. Kreines)(1926-41/1950/)
• Died for Love
• Down Longford Way & Shenandoah (arr. Osmon) (1935/1990)
• Duke of Marlborough Fanfare, The (ed. Hunsberger) (1939/2000)
• Duke of Marlborough Fanfare, The (arr. Ragsdale) (1939/1995)
• Early One Morning (arr. Kreines). See: Two Grainger Melodies
• English Waltz (tr. Rogers) (1899-1901/1940-1947/1999)
• Faeroe Island Dance
• Father and Daughter (arr. Ragsdale) (1912)
• Four Grainger Songs (arr. Svanoe) (2003) (unpublished)
• A Grainger Threesome (arr. Ragsdale) (2007)
• Green Bushes (1906/2007) (tr. Pappajohn)
• Gumsucker's March (arr. Rogers) (1914/1942/1996)
• Handel in the Strand (arr. Brion and Schissel) (1912/2001)
• Handel in the Strand (arr. Goldman) (1912/1961)
• Handel in the Strand (arr. Rohrer) (1912)
• Harvest Hymn (tr. Kreines) (1940/1983)
• Hill Song No. 1 (adapt. Rogers) (1901/1922/1923/1997)
• Hill-Song Nr. 1 (trans. Clark) (1901/1922/1923/2019)
• Hill Song No. 2
• Horkstow Grange from "Lincolnshire Posy" (adapt. Sweeney) (1937/2008)
• The Immovable Do (1940)
• I'm Seventeen Come Sunday (tr. Daehn) (1905-12/1987)
• I'm Seventeen Come Sunday (arr. Wagner) (1905-12/1999)
• In Dahomey (arr. Miller)
• Irish Tune from County Derry (1918)
• Irish Tune from County Derry (arr. Kreines) (1918/1996)
• Irish Tune from County Derry (ed. Renshaw) (1918)
• Irish Tune from County Derry (ed. Rogers) (1918/1994)
• Lads of Wamphray Ballad (arr. Ragsdale) (1905/2018)
• Lads of Wamphray March (1905/1937)
• Lincolnshire Posy (ed. Fennell) (1937/1987/2010)
• Lincolnshire Posy (arr. Higgins) (1937/2008)
• Lisbon from "Lincolnshire Posy" (adapted. Sweeney) (1937/2017)
• Lord Maxwell's Goodnight (orch. Wilson)
• Lost Lady Found (arr. Sweeney) (1937/2011)
• Marching Song of Democracy (1917/1948/1991)
• Marching Song of Democracy (ed. Brion) (1917/1948/1991)
• Marching Tune (2013) (arr. Story)
• Merry King, The (ed. Schissel) (1905/2006)
• Mock Morris (arr. Kreines) (1910/1921)
• Mock Morris (arr. Perna) (1910/2010/2016)
• Molly on the Shore (1920)
• Molly on the Shore (ed. Clark and Schmidt) (1920/2002)
• Molly on the Shore (tr Ragsdale) (tr. Ragsdale) (1920/1978)
• My Dark-Haired Maid (ed. Ragsdale) (1899)
• Near Woodstock Town (arr. Cramer) (2004)
• Nightingale and the Two Sisters, The (arr. Kreines) (1931)
• O Mensch, Bewein' Dein Sünde Gross (setting) (1724?/1937-1942/1987)
• Pagodes from "Estampes" (as arranger)
• Percy Grainger Portrait, A (2010)(arr. Wagner)
• A Percy Grainger Suite (arr. Erickson) (1996)
• The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart (1947/1953)
• Prelude in the Dorian Mode (as scorer)
• Rustic Dance (arr. Rogers) (1899/1950/2010)
• Scotch Strathspey and Reel (arr. Osmon) (1901-1911.1982)
• Sheep Shearing Song (as arranger) (1904/1923/1942/2017)
• Shepherd's Hey (1918)
• Shepherd's Hey (ed. Rogers) (1918/1994)
• Shepherd's Hey (arr De Stefano) (1918/2012)
• Spoon River (arr. Bainum) (1922/1967/2009)
• Spoon River (ed. Carson & Naylor) (1922/2010)
• Spoon River (arr. Sheldon) (1922)
• Spoon River (arr Smiley) (arr. Smiley) (1922/2014)
• The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
• The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol (arr. Clark) (1916/1996)
• The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol (arr. Simpson) (1916/1988)
• Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol, The (arr. Stotter) (1911/1916/2006)
• Themes from "Green Bushes" (arr. L. Daehn) (1906/1987)
• This is Not My Plaid (arr. Ragsdale) (2014)
• Three Tragic Ballads (arr. Ragsdale) (1924, 1902, 1909/2016)
• A Tribute to Grainger (arr. Ragsdale)(1999)
• Tuscan Serenade (as arranger) (1865/1937/1994)
• Two Grainger Melodies (trans. Kreines) (1912/1988)
• Two Grainger Sweets - Harvest Hymn and Mock Morris (arr. Krienes)
• Walking Tune (arr. L. Daehn) (1900/1940/1988)
• The Warriors (tr. Pappajohn) (1916/1998)
• We Have Fed Our Sea for a Thousand Years (1911)
• Willow, Willow (1911/1992) (orch. Simpson)
• Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon (1949)

Resources

• Grainger, P.; Sweeney, M. (2011). The Lost Lady Found [score]. Hal Leonard: Milwaukee, Wisc.
• Lewis, T. (n.d.). "Lincolnshire Posy." A Source Guide to the Music of Percy Grainger by Thomas P. Lewis. Accessed 13 September 2016
• Lincolnshire Posy, Wikipedia Accessed 13 September 2016