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Elephant posted:If you want something completely out of character with the rest of the stuff in this thread, check out Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Granger. A masochist and a xenophobe, Granger at one point spent years travelling around collecting traditional English folk songs on wax cylinders. He set six of them for wind band, and Lincolnshire Posy was the result. It's one of the hardest pieces to play for a wind ensemble, and even professionals have trouble with it. Grainger's music is absolutely incredible, and he created the idea of elastic scoring, so you can find almost any of his pieces scored for wind band, orchestra, choir, piano, and sometimes chamber ensembles without having to look for a transcription. My favorite Grainger piece is Irish Tune from County Derry, which is his arrangement of "Danny Boy". After hearing and playing Irish Tune, all other arrangements of Danny Boy just fall short to me. Grainger was a master of manipulating timbre.
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