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Irish Tune from County Derry (ed Rogers)
Percy Aldridge Grainger (ed. R Mark Rogers)
Contents
General Info
Year: 1918 / 1994
Duration: c. 3:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Folk song
Publisher: Southern Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $90.00 | Score Only (print) - $18.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III-IV
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra Alto Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Special Alto Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Percussion, including:
- Suspended Cymbal
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Grainger's Irish Tune from County Derry has stood the test of time for a number of reasons: colorful sonorities, straightforward accessibility, and a memorable climax. It is also a versatile piece, playable by both younger band and mature players, symphonic bands and wind ensembles. Irish Tune could balance a heavier work on the concert program, or it could be a thoughtful closing piece just before intermission. The broad appeal of this piece will undoubtedly assure its position atop the wind band repertoire for years to come.
- Program Note from Great Music for Wind Band
No. 20 of British Folk-Music Settings.
Lovingly and reverently dedicated to the memory of Edvard Grieg.
- Program Note from score
This tune was collected by Miss J. Ross, of New Town, Limavady, Co. Derry, Ireland, and published in The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, Dublin, 1855.
- Program Note from score
For the following beautiful air I have to express my very grateful acknowledgment to Miss J. Ross, of N.-T.-Limavady, in the county of Londonderry — a lady who has made a large collection of the popular unpublished melodies of that county, which she has very kindly placed at my disposal, and which has added very considerably to the stock of tunes which I had previously acquired from that still very Irish county. I say still very Irish, for though it has been planted for more than two centuries by English and Scottish settlers, the old Irish race still forms the great majority of its peasant inhabitants; and there are few, if any, counties in which, with less foreign admixture, the ancient melodies of the country have been so extensively preserved. The name of the tune unfortunately was not ascertained by Miss Ross, who sent it to me with the simple remark that it was " very old," in the correctness of which statement I have no hesitation in expressing my perfect concurrence.
- Program note by Percy Grainger
Irish Tune from County Derry (published 1918) is based on earlier settings that date back as early as October 1902 with an essentially identical setting of this melody for wordless mixed chorus. Later versions for solo piano (1911) and string orchestra with two optional horns (1912) followed. The wind band setting is cataloged as British Folk Music Setting Nr. 20, and like all his settings of British folk music is “lovingly and reverently dedicated to the memory of Edvard Grieg.” The composer’s brief program note states, “This tune was collected by Miss J. Ross, of New Town, Limavady, Co Derry, Ireland and published in The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, Dublin, 1855.”
- Program Note by R. Mark Rogers
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: North TexasWind Symphony (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor) - 2006
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Truman State University (Kirksville, Mo.) Wind Symphony I (Dan Peterson, conductor) - 18 November 2019
- Cuesta Wind Ensemble (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) (Jennifer Martin, conductor) – November 17, 2019
- Phoenix Winds (Elon, N.C.) Wind Ensemble (Jon Dooley, conductor)– 14 November 2019
- U.S. Fleet Forces Band (Gregory Fritz, conductor)– 13 June 2019 (Hampton, Va.)
- Penn State University (University Park) Concert Band (Gregory Drane, conductor) – 25 April 2019
- Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta) (Symphonic Band) (Benjamin J. Diden, conductor) – 14 April 2019
- Callanwolde Concert Band (Atlanta,Ga.) (Glenn Moore, conductor) – 31 March 2019
- Lake Braddock High School (Burke, Va.) Symphonic Band (Michael Luley, conductor) – 4 March 2019
- Ouachita Baptist University (Arkadelphia, Ark.) Wind Ensemble (Craig V. Hamilton, conductor) – 4 March 2019
- Ronald Reagan High School (San Antonio, Tex.) Wind Ensemble (David Morrison, conductor) - 21 December 2018 (2018 Midwest Clinic)
- Sacramento (Calif.) State University Concert Band (Matthew Morse, conductor) – 5 December 2018
- Illinois State University (Normal) Symphonic Winds (Anthony Marinello, III, conductor) – 15 November 2018
- United States Marine Band (Washington, D.C.) (Jason K. Fettig, conductor) – 31 October 2018 (Pickerington, Ohio)
- Rowan University (Glassboro, N.J.) Wind Ensemble (Joseph Higgins, conductor) – 25 October 2018
- University of North Texas (Denton) Wind Ensemble (Jochen McEvoy, conductor) – 9 October 2018
- University of Colorado Boulder Symphonic Band (Michael Roeder, conductor) – 20 September 2018
- Shenandoah Conservatory (Winchester, Va.) Wind Ensemble (Timothy Robblee, conductor) - 22 September 2018
- University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) Symphonic Band (Randall O. Coleman, conductor) – 23 April 2018
- University of Minnesota High School Honor Band (Emily Threinen, conductor)– 21 January 2018
- District 8 - Concert Band (Virginia) (John Lopez, conductor) – 6 February 2016
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
- Aldrich, Mark. (2004). A Catalog of Folk Song Settings for Wind Band (Galesville, Md.: Meredith Music Publications), p. 122.
- Fennell, Frederick. "Irish Tune from County Derry and Shepherd's Hey." The Instrumentalist 33 (September 1978): 18-25. August 2009 (reprint). Reprinted in Conductors Anthology, Volume 2. 2nd ed. (Northfield, Ill.: The Instrumentalist, 1993, pp. 22-26. "Irish Tune" portion of the article reprinted in The Instrumentalist, 64, no. 1 (August 2009).
- Grainger, P.; Rogers, M. (1994). Irish Tune from County Derry [score]. Southern Music: San Antonio, Tx.
- Miles, Richard B., and Larry Blocher. (2010). Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 1. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 498-504.
- Nicholson, Chad. (2009). Great Music for Wind Band: A Guide to the Top 100 Works in Grades IV, V, VI.’’ Galesville, MD: Meredith Music Publications. pp 6-7.
- Petrie, George. (1855) 'The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland'