Mock Morris (arr Perna)

Percy Aldridge Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger (ed. Dana Paul Perna)

General Info

Year: 1910 / 2010 / 2016
Duration: c. 3:25
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Chamber string ensemble
Publisher: Ludwig Masters
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00   |   Score Only (print) - $15.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:

• Bass Drum
• Crash Cymbals
• Marimba
• Orchestra Bells
• Triangle
• Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Grainger produced several versions of Mock Morris for different media. The composition is best described by Grainger in the preface to the string orchestra score: "No folk-music tune stuffs at all are used herein. The rhythmic cast of the piece is Morris-like, but neither the build of the tunes nor the general lay-out of the form keeps to the Morris dance shape."

- Program note by Joe Kreines

While many of Grainger’s works incorporate and feature collected folk songs, like his seminal composition Lincolnshire Posy, Mock Morris is an original work. Though the composition utilizes original thematic material, the listener might find it difficult to believe that it is indeed original. Grainger repeatedly asserted the originality of the piece to skeptical listeners, while admitting that one theme was “(unwittingly) cribbed from an early Magnificat of Cyril Scott.

Mock Morris is a buoyant, jaunty romp, inspired by the traditional English Morris folk dance. There have been several settings of the work, but the original was written for a small, six-piece string ensemble in 1910.

- Program Note from The Desert Winds concert program, 17 December 2016

Authorized by The Percy Grainger Society, this setting of the familiar classic is based on the 1950 version created for Leopold Stokowski, which was recorded for the RCA Victor label. Despite its brevity, Stokowski's recording does contain cuts, but this transcription is the full piece as Grainger intended it.

- Program Note from The Instrumentalist

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

• Florida: IV
• Louisiana: IV
• Texas: IV. Complete

Performances

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• Bishop Carroll High School (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) Wind Ensemble (Chris Herard, conductor) – 22 February 2020
• University of Missouri, Kansas City, Wind Ensemble (Joseph Parisi, conductor) – 13 March 2019
• Jenks (Okla.) Wind Symphony (Scott Hillock, conductor) – 2018

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Irish Tune from County Derry (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Klarfeld) (1918/2014/2020)
• Molly on the Shore (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sheehan) (1920/2020)
• O Mensch, Bewein' Dein Sünde Gross (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger; ed. Brand and Brion) (1724?/1937-1942/1987)
• Prelude in the Dorian Mode (Flex instrumentation) (as scorer)
• Shepherd's Hey (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Fisher) (1918/2020)
• Two Movements from "Lincolnshire Posy" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sweeney) (1937/2019)

All Wind Works

• Angelus ad Virginem (as arranger) (1940s)
• The Annunciation Carol
• The Annunciation Carol (tr. Grainger) (13th Cent./1942/1993)
• Arrival Platform Humlet (arr. Eichenberger) (1912/)
• 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 and Ould) (1935/1953/1991)
• Blithe Bells (1931)
• Blithe Bells (arr. Jager) (1931/1989)
• Blithe Bells (ed. Ould) (1931/2013)
• A Bridal Lullaby (arr. Hartley)
• Brigg Fair (arr. Ballenger) (1905/1991)
• British Waterside (arr. Moss) (1921)
• British Waterside (arr. Wilson) (1921/1998)
• Children's March (rev. Erickson) (1919/1971)
• Children's March (rev. Rogers) (1919/1995)
• Children's March (arr. Wagner) (1919/2000)
• Choral No 2 for Organ (as scorer; ed. Rogers) (1890/1941/20--?)
• Colonial Song (1912/1918)
• Colonial Song (ed. Rogers) (1918/1997)
• Colonial Song (ed. Topolewski) (1918/2001)
• Colonial Song (arr. Wagner) (1919/2014)
• Country Gardens (1918/1990)
• Country Gardens (arr. Clark) (1918/1931)
• Country Gardens (arr. Karrick) (1918/2013)
• Country Gardens (arr. Rogers) (1918/2024)
• Country Gardens (arr. Sousa, Brion and Schissel) (1918/1953)
• County Derry Air (ed. Ould)
• The Cutting of the Hay (arr. Wilson)
• Danish Folk Music Suite (arr. Kreines) (1926-41/1950/)
• Danny Deever (arr. Carpenter)
• Danny Deever (tr. Ragsdale). See: Three Tragic Ballads
• Died for Love
• Died for Love (arr. Conway) (1912/2011?)
• Down Longford Way & Shenandoah (as orchestrator; arr. Osmon) (1928/1935/1990)
• The Duke of Marlborough Fanfare (1939)
• The Duke of Marlborough Fanfare (ed. Hunsberger) (1939/2000)
• The Duke of Marlborough Fanfare (arr. Ragsdale) (1939/1995)
• Early One Morning (arr. Kreines). See: Two Grainger Melodies
• Eastern Intermezzo (arr. Warshaw) (1899/1922/)
• Faeroe Island Dance (1946//1954/1969)
• Father and Daughter. See: Three Tragic Ballads
• Folk Tune (as arranger) (1923/1942)
• Four Grainger Songs (arr. Svanoe) (2003) (unpublished)
• Gay but Wistful (tr. Patterson) (1916/2011)
• Gay But Wistful. See also: Tune in a Popular London Style
• A Grainger Threesome (arr. Ragsdale) (2007)
• Green Bushes (1906/2007) (tr. Pappajohn)
• Green Bushes. See also: Themes from "Green Bushes"
• 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) (1912/2015)
• Harlem 125th Street Walkabout (arr. Hartley)
• Harvest Hymn (tr. Kreines) (1940/1983)
• Hill Song No. 1 (1902)
• Hill Song No. 1 (adapt. Rogers) (1901/1922/1923/1997)
• Hill-Song Nr. 1 (trans. Clark) (1901/1922/1923/2019)
• Hill Song No. 2 (arr. Rogers) (1907/1929/1990)
• Horkstow Grange from "Lincolnshire Posy" (adapt. Sweeney) (1937/2008)
• The Hunter in His Career (arr. Robinson)
• 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 a Nutshell (tr. Patterson) (1916/2011)
• In Dahomey (arr. Miller)
• Irish Tune (arr. Stotter) (1918)
• Irish Tune from County Derry (1918)
• Irish Tune from County Derry (arr. Clark and Schmidt) (1918/2001)
• Irish Tune from County Derry (arr. Erickson) (1918/1970)
• Irish Tune from County Derry (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Klarfeld) (1918/2014/2020)
• 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)
• Irish Tune from County Derry/Shepherd's Hey (tr. Stamp) (1918/2021)
• The Jungle Book Suite (arr. Ragsdale) (2011)
• Jutish Medley (arr. Kreines) (1923-1929/)
• Lads of Wamphray March (1905/1941)
• Lads of Wamphray March (ed. Kreines) (1905/1937/2003)
• Lads of Wamphray Ballad (arr. Ragsdale) (1905/2018)
• Lincolnshire Posy (1937/1940)
• Lincolnshire Posy (ed. Fennell) (1937/1987/2010)
• Lincolnshire Posy (ed. Fennell; rev. Rogers) (1937/1987/2010/2020)
• Lincolnshire Posy (arr. Higgins) (1937/2008)
• Lincolnshire Posy (arr. Osika) (1937/)
• Lisbon from "Lincolnshire Posy" (adapt. Sweeney) (1937/2017)
• Lord Maxwell's Goodnight (orch. Wilson)
• Lord Peter's Stable Boy (1925/1930)
• Lord Peter's Stable Boy (arr. Kreines)
• Lost Lady Found (arr. Sweeney) (1937/2011)
• March (as arranger) (1946)
• Marching Song of Democracy (1917/1948/1991)
• Marching Song of Democracy (ed. Brion) (1917/1948/1991)
• Marching Tune (2013) (arr. Story)
• The Merry King (ed. Schissel) (1905/2006)
• Mock Morris (arr. Kreines) (1910/1991)
• Mock Morris (arr. Patterson) (1910/ )
• Mock Morris (arr. Perna) (1910/2010/2016)
• Mock Morris (arr. Simpson) (2010/1993)
• Molly on the Shore (ed. Rogers) (1920/1998)
• Molly on the Shore (ed. Clark and Schmidt) (1920/2002)
• Molly on the Shore (arr. Johnston) (1920/2011)
• Molly on the Shore (tr. Ragsdale) (1920/1978)
• My Dark-Haired Maid (ed. Ragsdale) (1899)
• My Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone (arr. Strum) (1912/1999)
• Near Woodstock Town (arr. Cramer) (2004)
• Nightingale and the Two Sisters, The (arr. Kreines) (1931)
• Northern March. See: Youthful Suite
• O Mensch, Bewein' Dein Sünde Gross (Flex instrumentation) (setting) (1724?/1937-1942/1987)
• Pagodes from "Estampes" (as arranger) (1903/1928/1996)
• A Percy Grainger Portrait (arr. Wagner) (2010)
• Percy Grainger Suite (arr. Kreines) (1983)
• A Percy Grainger Suite (arr. Erickson) (1996)
• The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart (1947/1953)
• Prelude in the Dorian Mode (Flex instrumentation) (as scorer)
• Scotch Strathspey and Reel (arr. Osmon) (1901-1911/1982)
• Sehet was die liebe tut (as arranger) (1937)
• Sheep Shearing Song (as arranger) (1904/1923/1942/2017)
• Shenandoah (arr. Osmon) (1992)
• Shepherd's Hey (1918)
• Shepherd's Hey (arr. Clark) (1918/2001)
• Shepherd's Hey (ed. Rogers) (1918/1994)
• Shepherd's Hey (arr. De Stefano) (1918/2012)
• Shepherd's Hey (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Fisher) (1918/2020)
• Spoon River (1919-29/1940s)
• Spoon River (arr. Bainum) (1922/1967/2009)
• Spoon River (ed. Carson & Naylor) (1922/2010)
• Spoon River (arr. Sheldon) (1922)
• Spoon River (arr. Story) (1922/2014)
• Six Dukes Went A-Fishin' (arr. Kreines)
• The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol (scored Goldman) (1916/1965)
• The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol (arr. Clark) (1916/1996)
• The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol (arr. Simpson) (1916/1988)
• The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol (arr. Stotter) (1911/1916/2006)
• Themes from "Green Bushes" (arr. L. Daehn) (1906/1987)
• This is Not My Plaid (arr. Ragsdale) (2014)
• The Three Ravens. see: Three Tragic Ballads
• Three Tragic Ballads (arr. Ragsdale) (1924, 1902, 1909/2016)
  • Danny Deever (1902/1909/2016)
  • The Three Ravens (1902/2000)
  • Father and Daughter
• A Tribute to Grainger (arr. Ragsdale) (1999)
• Tune in a Popular London Style (arr. Rogers) (1916/2005)
• Tuscan Serenade (as arranger) (1865/1937/1994)
• Two Grainger Melodies (trans. Kreines) (1912/1988)
• Two Grainger Sweets - Harvest Hymn and Mock Morris (arr. Krienes)
• Two Movements from "Lincolnshire Posy" (arr. Ryan) (1937/2019)
• Two Movements from "Lincolnshire Posy" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sweeney) (1937/2019)
• Walking Tune (1900)
• Walking Tune (arr. Daehn) (1900/1940/1988)
• Walking Tune (arr. Simpson)
• The Warriors (tr. Pappajohn) (1916/1998)
• We Have Fed Our Sea for a Thousand Years (1911)
• The Widow's Party (arr. Moon) (1923/1929/2011)
• The Widow's Party (arr. Osmon) (1923/1929/2009)
• Willow, Willow (1911/1992) (orch. Simpson)
• Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon (1949)
• Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon (arr. Ragsdale) (1903/1936/2008)
• Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon (arr. Sweeney) (1949/2006)
• Youthful Suite (tr. Rogers) (1899/1950)
  • Northern March (arr. Rogers) (c. 1900/2010)
  • Rustic Dance (1899/1950/2010)
  • Eastern Intermezzo
  • English Waltz (1899-1901/1940-1947/1999)
• Zanzibar Boat Song (arr. Hazzard) (1902/2013)

Resources

• "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist, 71/8 (March, 2017), p. 30.