{"id":268,"date":"2020-11-10T11:13:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2024-07-24T04:55:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T04:55:57","slug":"grainger-percy-1882-1961-colonial-song","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=268","title":{"rendered":"Grainger, Percy (1882-1961) &#8211; Colonial song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;--awb-align-self:center;--awb-width:100%;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe class=\"fusion-hidden\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\" src=\"\" title=\"YouTube video player 1\" data-privacy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VTorUCrLHTs?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><div class=\"fusion-privacy-placeholder\" style=\"width:600px; height:360px;\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\"><div class=\"fusion-privacy-placeholder-content\"><div class=\"fusion-privacy-label\">For privacy reasons YouTube needs your permission to be loaded.<\/div><a href=\"\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\" class=\"fusion-button button-default fusion-button-default-size button fusion-privacy-consent\">I Accept<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h4 data-fontsize=\"28\" data-lineheight=\"38.08px\" class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"text-align: justify; --fontSize:28; line-height: 1.36; --minFontSize:28;\">&#8220;Heritage&#8221; Program note<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing); text-transform: var(--awb-text-transform); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">Percy Grainger is renowned as one of the most gifted \u2014 and simultaneously eccentric and controversial \u2014 composers of Australian musical history. Grainger was born in Melbourne on 8 July 1882. He had a troubled childhood, however was prodigiously gifted at the piano from a young age, and his mother, Rose, took him overseas to study in Frankfurt in 1885, when Grainger was only 13. In 1901 they moved to London, and Grainger developed a profile as a concert performer, individualistic composer and collector of folk melodies. Colonial Song was written in 1911, as a \u201cyule-tide\u201d gift for his mother, for two voices, harp and orchestra, and the piano trio version was re-scored by Grainger in 1912. The melody is based on one he originally used in the wordless vocal <\/span><em style=\"color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing); text-transform: var(--awb-text-transform); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">Up-country tune<\/em><span style=\"font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing); text-transform: var(--awb-text-transform); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"> and its sumptuous, rich textures were loved by some and thought overdone by others (Sir Thomas Beecham pronounced it \u2018the worst piece of modern times\u2019).<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--testimonial_bg_color); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">\u2018LONG PROGRAM NOTE: No traditional tunes of any kind are made use of in this piece, in which I have wished to express feelings aroused by thoughts of the scenery and people of my native land, (Australia), and also to voice a certain kind of emotion that seems to me not untypical of native-born Colonials in general.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: var(--testimonial_bg_color); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--testimonial_bg_color); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">Perhaps it is not unnatural that people living more or less lonelily in vast virgin countries and struggling against natural and climatic hardships (rather than against the more actively and dramaticly [sic] exciting counter wills of their fellow men, as in more thickly populated lands) should run largely to that patiently yearning, inactive sentimental wistfulness that we find so touchingly expressed in much American art; for instance in Mark Twain&#8217;s <\/span><em style=\"color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">Huckleberry Finn,<\/em><span style=\"background-color: var(--testimonial_bg_color); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\"> and in Stephen C. Foster&#8217;s adorable songs <\/span><em style=\"color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">My Old Kentucky Home, Old Folks at Home,<\/em><span style=\"background-color: var(--testimonial_bg_color); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\"> etc.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: var(--testimonial_bg_color); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--testimonial_bg_color); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">I have also noticed curious, almost Italian-like, musical tendencies in brass band performances and ways of singing in Australia (such as a preference for richness and intensity of tone and soulful breadth of phrasing over more subtly and sensitively varied delicacies of expression), which are also reflected here.\u2019 <\/span><span style=\"color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing); font-style: normal;\">Percy Grainger<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.84%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:19.584%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"520\" title=\"Percy_Grainger_by_Dupont_(1915,_8)\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27360%27%20height%3D%27520%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20360%20520%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27360%27%20height%3D%27520%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Percy_Grainger_by_Dupont_1915_8.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-310\"\/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>Percy Grainger (photograph by Dupont)<\/p>\n<p>The score for Grainger&#8217;s piano trio version of <i>Colonial Song<\/i> can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/imslp.org\/wiki\/Colonial_Song_(Grainger%2C_Percy)\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe class=\"fusion-hidden\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\" src=\"\" title=\"YouTube video player 2\" data-privacy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PTHWaEPuS_w?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; 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