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has gloss | eng: Lincolnshire Posy is a symphonic piece by Percy Aldridge Grainger, composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association. Considered Graingers masterpiece, the 16-minute-long work is composed of six movements, each adapted from folk songs that Grainger had collected on a 1905–1906 trip to Lincolnshire, England. The work debuted with three of the movements on March 7, 1937 by the Pabst Blue Ribbon beer factory worker band in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Unlike other composers that attempted to alter and modernize folk music for band, such as Ralph Vaughan Williams (see English Folk Song Suite), Grainger wished to maintain the exact sense of stylizing that he experienced from the singers. Grainger wrote, "Each number is intended to be a kind of musical portrait of the singer who sang its underlying melody...a musical portrait of the singers personality no less than of his habits of song, his regular or irregular wonts of rhythm, his preference for gaunt or ornately arabesque delivery, his contrasts of legato and staccato, his tendency towards breadth or delicacy of tone." Grainger dedicated his "bunch of Wildflowers" to "the old folksingers who sang so sweetly to... |
lexicalization | eng: Lincolnshire Posy |
instance of | (noun) a matching set of furniture suite |
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has gloss | jpn: リンカンシャーの花束()は、オーストラリア出身の作曲家パーシー・グレインジャーによる吹奏楽のための組曲である。 |
lexicalization | jpn: リンカンシャーの花束 |
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