According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Percy Aldridge Grainger was an Australian-born composer and pianist; lived 1900-15 in London and thereafter in USA (naturalised). Pupil in Germany of Busoni; friend of Edvard Hagerup Grieg. Collected and edited English folk music and based some compositions on it. Also wrote choral works, many short orchestral pieces (e.g. Country Gardens (1919), Handel in the Strand); usually published his work in several different (and often unconventional) instrumental versions. Used deliberately anglicised vocabulary, e.g. "louden" (crescendo), "middle-fiddle" (viola), "bass fiddle" - to mean cello, not double-bass, which term he retained.
Personal remarks
As mentioned elsewhere in these webpages, I am in no way closely related to this world-famous gentleman (although it would be nice to boast of it!). Any ancestral connection would have been at least six or seven generations ago before his family was in Australia.

Websites:
	The Grainger Museum	A well rounded website of all things pertaining to PAG.

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Country Gardens (D/A/Piano) Score and Parts. 12 pages. Handkerchief dance. This edition: ED 10876. Arr./Editor: Walter Bergmann Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49029643)

Country Gardens (D/A/Piano) Part:. This edition: ED 10876-01. Arr./Editor: Walter Bergmann Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49029644)

Mock Morris (D/A/T/Piano) Score and Parts. This edition: ED 12258. Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49030330)

Mock Morris (D/A/T/Piano) Separate Part. This edition: ED 12258-01. Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49030331)

Mock Morris (D/A/T/Piano) Separate Part. This edition: ED 12258-02. Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49030332)

Mock Morris (D/A/T/Piano) Separate Part. This edition: ED 12258-03. Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49030333)

Shepherd's Hey (D/A/T/Piano) Score and Parts. 20 pages. This edition: ED 10886. Arr./Editor: Brian Bonsor  ⇑Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49029645)

Shepherd's Hey (D/A/T/Piano) Separate Part. This edition: ED 10886-02. Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49029647)

Shepherd's Hey (D/A/T/Piano) Separate Part. This edition: ED 10886-03. Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49029648)

Shepherd's Hey (D/A/T/Piano) Separate Part. This edition: ED 10886-01. Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49029646)

Shepherds Hey (D/A/T/Piano) Score and Parts. Publisher: Magnamusic (ST10886)

Brass Sheet Music

Percy Grainger Suite (Brass Quintet) Score and parts 31 pages. 2 Trumpets in Bb, Horn in F, Trombone, and Tuba. Arr./Editor: Joseph Kreines Level: 5 Publisher: Southern Music Publishing Co. Ltd

Shepherd's Hey (D/A/T/Piano) Separate Part. Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49029646)

Shepherds Hey (D/A/T/Piano) Score and Parts. Publisher: Magnamusic (ST10886)

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