Down Longford Way & Shenandoah

Percy Aldridge Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger (trans. (Leroy Osmon)

General Info

Year: 1935 / 1990
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Piano
Publisher: RBC Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $55.00   |   Score Only (print) - $8.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute
Oboe
English Horn (optional)
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:

• Bells
• Crash Cymbals
• Gong
• Suspended Cymbal

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Down Longford Way is a Tasmanian folk song collected by Katherine Parker, and Shenandoah is a windlass chanty collected by Charles Rosher.

- Program Note from score

The composition is actually two short folk songs that Grainger "dished up" (his term for arranged). Down Longford Way is an arrangement of in "elastic scoring" (flexible instrumentation) of Katherine Parker's music. Grainger arranged it in 1935. Shenandoah was one of Grainger's Sea Chantey Songs for male chorus.

- Program Note from Teaching Music Through Performance in Band

Down Longford Way is based on a Tasmanian folk song collected by Katherine Parker (1886–1971), who was a student of Grainger. The work originates from Parker’s 1928 composition for solo piano entitled Four Musical Sketches. Parker sent her composition to Grainger in 1930 and he orchestrated the second movement in 1935. Leroy Osmon transcribed the orchestral work for band in 1990.

This beautiful ballad is written in a simple ABA’ form. The piece opens with a slow, gorgeous melody played by soprano saxophone that shifts through changing instrumental colors, followed by a quiet, introspective section marked by solo horn and euphonium countermelodies. The glorious reiteration of the opening melody builds to a rich and powerful conclusion.

- University of North Carolina, Greensboro, University Band concert program, 2 October 2018

Commercial Discography

None discovered thus far.

State Ratings

• Alabama: Class CC
• Florida: III
• Georgia: III
• Kansas: III
• Louisiana: III
• Oklahoma: III-A
• South Carolina: IV
• Texas: III. Complete
• Virginia: III

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

• Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington) May Term Band (Dan Drake, conductor) – 29 may 2019
• University of Missouri - St. Louis Wind Ensemble (Gary Brandes, conductor) - 17 October 2018
• University of North Carolina, Greensboro, University Band (Carolina Perez, conductor) – 2 October 2018
• Troy Middle School (Joliet/Shorewood, Ill.) Symphonic Band (Ted Lega, conductor) - 2009

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.; Park, K.; Rosher, C.; Osmon, L. (1990). Don Longford Way and Shenandoah [score]. RBC Publications: San Antonio, Tex.
• Miles, Richard B. 2000. Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. Volume 3. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 226-229.