Grainger Compositional Traits
The Lads of Wamphray March (1904-05)

"Blue-Eyed English" Terms
brassy
short
feelingly
full band
louden hugely
louden
sustained
marked
bit by bit
slight
plucked
louden lots
marked and heavy
smoothly, gently
to the fore
reedy
soften
pp but toneful
somewhat clingingly
full steam all the time
heavily, much to the fore
streamingly
long
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Sliding Pedal
mm. 175-176
mm. 263-265
mm. 311-313
mm. 345-346
mm. 389-392
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Use of Instruments in Families
Throughout entire piece
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"In my opinion no wind band is ideal without a complete family of easy-to-play sarrusophones, by the inclusion of which the double-reeds are brought on a par with the single-reeds....The wind band should not so cripple itself, by tonal ill-balance and incomplete families (oboe and English horn without bass-oboe or heckelphone; sax-horns without sopranino or alto; saxophones without soprano)..."
- Percy Aldgridge Grainger, June 1938
The Lads of Wamphray March program notes
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Elastic Scoring
cues throughout parts
Free Music
none

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