We Have Fed Our Sea for a Thousand Years

Percy Aldridge Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger

Subtitle: For Mixed Chorus, Brass and Strings

General Info

Year: 1904
Duration: c. 3:20
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Schott Music
Cost: Score and Parts – Rental

Instrumentation

B-flat Trumpet I-II-III (III optional)
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass

Six-Part Mixed Chorus
Strings (optional)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This work is based on the Kipling poem "The Song of the Dead," subsidiary to the poem "A Song of the English" originally published in The Seven Seas in 1896.

Commercial Discography

None discovered thus far.

Media

• Audio: City of London Sinfonia (Richard Hickox, conductor)

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• Coastal Carolina University (Conway, S.C.) Symphonic Band (Richard L. Johnson, conductor) – 7 April 2017

Works for Winds by this Composer

Adaptable Music

• Molly on the Shore (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sheehan) (1920/2020)
• O Mensch, Bewein' Dein Sünde Gross (Flex instrumentation) (setting) (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

• 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 (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)
• Children's March (arr. Wagner) (1919/2000)
• Choral No 2 for Organ (as scorer; ed. Rogers) (1890/1941/20--?)
• Colonial Song (ed. Rogers) (1919/1997)
• Colonial Song (ed. Topolewski) (1919/2001)
• Colonial Song (arr. Wagner) (1919/2014)
• Country Gardens (arr. Sousa, Brion and Schissel) (1918/1953)
• 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 (as orchestrator; arr. Osmon) (1928/1935/1990)
• 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
• Faeroe Island Dance (1946/1969)
• Father and Daughter (arr. Ragsdale) (1912)
• Four Grainger Songs (arr. Svanoe) (2003) (unpublished)
• Gay but Wistful (tr. Patterson) (1916/2011)
• 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) (1912/2015)
• 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 a Nutshell (tr. Patterson) (1916/2011)
• 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 (ed. Kreines) (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 (Flex instrumentation) (setting) (1724?/1937-1942/1987)
• Pagodes from "Estampes" (as arranger)
• Percy Grainger Portrait, A (arr. Wagner) (2010)
• 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)
• 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)
• Shepherd's Hey (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Fisher) (1918/2020)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Two Movements from "Lincolnshire Posy" (arr. Ryan) (1937/2019)
• Two Movements from "Lincolnshire Posy" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sweeney) (1937/2019)
• Walking Tune (Woodwind Quintet) (1900)
• 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)
• Youthful Suite (tr. Rogers)
  • Northern March
  • Rustic Dance (1899/1950/2010)
  • Eastern Intermezzo
  • English Waltz (1899-1901/1940-1947/1999)
• Zanzibar Boat Song (arr. Hazzard) (1902/2013)

Resources

• Grainger, P.; Kipling, R. (1911). We Have Fed Our Sea for a Thousand Years : For Mixed Chorus, Brass and Strings [score]. Schott & Co.: London.
• The Song of the Dead. Kipling Society. Accessed 4 April 2017