REEL C 35; CDR copy--Field recordings collected by Percy Grainger in England, 1909; Sidney Cowell Recordings 1936-7. FW-ASCH-7RR-0812 through FW-ASCH-7RR-0816 were among a large number of tapes (at ...

The following notes were written by the composer. Grainger had a strong belief that the English language had been corrupted by the influence of the Normans after 1066, and so he often chose to avoid ...

Many of Percy Grainger's best loved compositions aren't really compositions. They're arrangements of English folk songs. Grainger's Lincolnshire Posey is a collection of six folk tunes, arranged for ...

Australian-born composer Percy Grainger was drawn to English folk songs, including songs heard around the holidays. He arranged a carol sung by Christmas mummers in Sussex, England, and it’s now a ...