THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL COMPOSITION WRITTEN BY PERCY ALDRIDGE GRAINGER IN 1913, FOR AND ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN HIS NATIVE AUSTRALIA. HE ALSO USED THE INSPIRATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN COUNTRYSIDE. PERFORMED BY THE 1970 UNIV. OF ILLINOIS CONCERT BAND.
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Contemporary band compositions, classical music arrangements, marches, jazz, symphonies, overtures. A collection from bands that I have played in throughout hi
Hello and welcome! "Symphonic Band Performances" is a compilation of recordings from several high school and college bands that I played in including the TMEA (Texas) All State Band, the TMEA Region X All Region Band, the Interlochen Arts Academy National Music Camp, the Cal Poly Tech Band, San Luis Obispo, the USAF Golden West Band, and recordings from my h.s. band, Beaumont H.S. and a few band recordings that were passed down to me. Also included are various All State groups and college and university bands. I participated and played in the large majority of these recordings. There are no professional recordings here and every recording is Public Domain. Most are available for free download. Each song has been converted from the original analog or digital source and edited with Audacity or Dak software. In the majority of these recordings, I play the tenor sax or alto sax, b flat or e flat clarinet, or directing. I was drum major for 2 years in high school, I have a BA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where I studied music ed, composition and theory. I had about 500 more recordings I was planning to digitize and upload, but this past Nov. 20th, my home was completely destroyed by fire, and all the contents, including all my music and instruments. So, this is it. Please feel free to post a comment here or on my member page. If you like, please become a fan by clicking "I'm a fan" below.
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Genre
Classical • Symphonic
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Peak #107
Peak in subgenre #21
Uploaded
May 13, 2009
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MP3
MP3 8.1 MB • 192 kbps • 5:53
Story behind the song
Colonial Song (1913) PERCY ALDRIDGE GRAINGER Grainger used no traditional tunes in this piece which was written for and about the people in his native Australia. He expressed the wish to “voice a certain kind of emotion that seems to to me not untypical of native-born colonials in general.” Concerning colonials, he wrote the following: Perhaps it is not unnatural that people living more or less alone in vast virgin countries and struggling against natural and climactic hardships (rather than the more active and dramatically exciting counter wills of their fellow men, as in more thickly populated lands) should run largely [to] patiently yearning, inactive sentimental wistfulness.
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