Percy Grainger - Molly on the Shore (1907/1920)

[@DonaldMill]

Percy is my favorite! I was a Band instructor for 30 yrs., played many of Grainger’s Works as contest pieces. They challenged the Kids, But they grew to love too!

[@DanielSabzghabaei]

Wonderful! Great energy flow and texture shifts. Grainger's ear for the band is unique.

[@Kestrel66]

Certified hood classic

[@BC465]

I LOVE the timbre of the oboe and clarinet at 3:28.

[@jackaguirre8576]

Me too! It's an under-rated combination.

[@Libra_Strings]

I’m a viola player and I too can appreciate this

[@bmajorscale]

or the timbre of the soprano sax and trumpet at 1:11 😻

[@BC465]

​@@bmajorscale Yesss that timbre is really good too; it's got a nostalgic feeling

[@allwinds3786]

One of my favorite memories will be playing this on solo cornet in a local semi pro band with my 18 year old son on third horn sitting in front of me a just nailing the solo at #59

[@Libra_Strings]

I had to find this because it was in my head for 4 days straight! I played this is 7th grade orchestra on viola. I still think about it daily

[@user-mx6yh6kh7p]

I'm also a violist! I had played this in my 8th grade lol

[@katetranscribes]

I absolutely love grainger. I don't know if a condensed score of Lincolnshire Posy is even feasible, but it would be something else if it were

[@the_number_e]

The condensed score of Lincolnshire Posy was actually the only available version for a long time, before Fennell made a full score.

[@katetranscribes]

The Number e I completely forgot about that! Must have been an absolute nightmare to read :P

[@TFreckle]

@@katetranscribes Especially because of all the discrepancies betwixt parts and score. Fennell made a good attempt at cleaning that up.

[@michaeledwards1172]

I think there is now a KZbin video of "A Lincolnshire Posy" which shows the condensed score as the music plays.

[@MrMayAllDay]

P. A. G. ❤ Most overlooked genius. Responsible for much more than just wind arranging.

[@Borderlands2lova]

This piece literally scares the shit out of me. Those dynamics I’m crying.

[@crystelthewolf]

Playing a version of this in orchestra with a bunch of string instruments instead of woodwinds, and its actually super fun to play once you figure out all the run-on 8th note parts

[@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms]

I wish I knew what this meant.

[@mabelmartin9774]

I’m playing it on the violin now in an orchestra and I have to agree 😭😂 it’s so hard but fun!

[@AndreyRubtsovRU]

"3rd & 4th clarinets added". That's passion for details!

[@a.j.501st]

We did this for high school concert band. We didn’t have a bassoonist so I learned it in a few months and did the part for that. I’m largely a tenor saxophonist.

[@shritan0]

i’m a freshman bass clarinet and i’m playing this in wind ensemble

[@a.j.501st]

@@shritan0 oh, have fun with that😂

[@shritan0]

@@a.j.501st haha thank you i love this piece

[@a.j.501st]

@@shritan0 it’s definitely one of my favorites to be sure. But I will always have a soft spot for Holst’s Moorside March. Well, the whole suite, really.

[@dianecraft866]

I had to play the solo as a seventh grade first year bassoonist😅

[@davemillet4160]

Amazing piece of music. I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like to play this!😮

[@jaydenmiller4170]

STRESSFUL 😭😭😭

[@mckernan603]

Wow magical. I’ve played these on piano but his full band versions are really modern and brilliant

[@mikedavis8314]

Grainger could've simply written the triplets as mordents---I sense he was seeking that 'biting' effect on those notes. But he apparently wanted to ensure that the players were uniform in executing an upper mordent, as opposed to a lower one. Writing the specific notes to be played eliminated any uncertainty. I love music composition.

[@douwemusic]

If he had wanted the mordent "bite" written out, he'd have used 2 16ths and an 8th (or simply a footnote or ossia), no? Mordents are never "spread out" over a note as a triplet, pretty sure he wrote triplets because he wanted triplets

[@granthicks2030]

The irony is that the performers here play this as if the triplets *were* written as two 16ths and an eighth.

[@jonnysetzler5859]

So I’m playing first clarinet on this, and after a read through I’m pretty certain Grainger has some kind of grudge against woodwinds bc this is not fun to play lmao

[@EnderGamerX7]

Jonny Setzler he loved them just a little too much, actually

[@yourneighborlytrashbirb9525]

please take back your love Grainger

[@natekite7532]

What? The opening solo on this is so much fun to play!!!!

[@InimicalWit]

My first instrument was Clarinet, but I was on French Horn when this crossed my music stand. This piece got me to pull my clarinet out again. Loved it

[@coloraturaElise]

Not fun?? It's totally fun, probably one of the most fun clarinet band pieces, ESPECIALLY if you're a first clarinet player....right?

[@CrazhArt]

I got to play this around the beginning of the decade and since I was first trumpet, I for the solo part. I was so excited to play it, but never ended up getting to because of COVID

[@graeme011]

This is my favourite version of "Molly on the Shore"!

[@_alicia__]

Just played this at the Staller Center yesterday, such a beautiful piece :)

[@ThePumpkin506]

This has one of my favorite endings to any piece.

[@JCandelaria_YT]

ThePumpkin506 I know right I am so happy to have this as a concert piece this year

[@williamdrake9864]

I played this back in high school. I still have ptsd from it 😂😂😂

[@osutuba]

I played this when I was in the Oklahoma State Wind Ensemble. Still one of my favorite works by Grainger!

[@joshinator612]

This was one of my favorite songs we ever played. Ours looked a little different though. It was faster and in cut time. Loved it though, challenging, fun, amazing once it all came together.

[@gracerolewicz]

i'm a freshman in wind ensemble, the highest band, clarinet, and i have to play this...

[@BoaBenny]

huge W wish i was you

[@bruh60297]

cap

[@alger3041]

Would love to see a conductor's score like this for "Lads of Womphray," one of my favorite Grainger pieces.

[@bearsrider]

Triplets often sound like double sixteenth + eighth... Regardless of that, performance is brilliant

[@christopherleitz5617]

Grainger built his songs off of drunk Irish pub singers so screwing up the cadence is probably by design.

[@dannyfinlayson1974]

target the down beats

[@sgabriel]

Agreed. It's a common problem with this piece.

[@fredswardankweedman1052]

That's what 'triplets' are usually played as in Irish reels, it would sound quite wrong to play them strict

[@ahuddleofpenguins4842]

That’s the way this piece is always done. Not really a mistake or problem imo

[@somecomposingfudsa]

3:54 I thought that playing the A natural in that triplet thing instead of the B-flat was intentional for the longest time; it seems like a Grainger thing to do

[@anonymoususer9616]

I went to the comments to see if anybody pointed this out! Listened to this piece for the first time and thought, “Wow, that note does not sound right...”

[@xikarik7941]

It honestly sounds better with that a natural I heard I was like yeah that’s a great way to end this cluster fuck

[@hallechen4260]

I'm so excited, me and my friends are playing this for our middle school extra band club(Idk how to explain it)

[@ArturKorotin]

I remember being unable to sight read this at an orchestra competition😁😅 It's nice to finally hear what it's supposed to sound like. 👍

[@albieh2563]

....my friends and I are playing this....

[@carwashslayer4235]

1:40 this has a very fun feeling but Idk whats up

[@mountelbert4214]

This was literally my brain during the recent AP physics exam

[@emiliohernandez7214]

Playing the 1st Cornet part (Not the solo, there is a difference) as a freshman way back when was one of the biggest thrills of my High school honor band years

[@ethanmitchell9642]

How lovely! It is nice to hear something for (mainly) wind instruments, I am composing a piece for some brass, woodwind and percussion in a few months' time and have never really heard anything. Could you maybe if possible recommend anything else to listen to??

[@Cmaj7]

Lincolnshire Posy, also by Grainger, is the best wind piece I know.

[@ethanmitchell9642]

Ah ok. Thank you :)

[@scunnygal]

Children's March by Grainger is wonderful, also! Or Gaelforce (can't remember the composer, sorry!); there is a version for all brass (that may be the original?), but also one for wind band too - and features a lovely flugelhorn solo in the middle :)

[@susanokroglic2257]

Incantation and Dance, Overture to Candide, Lincolnshire Posy

[@LightProgRock]

This variation at 02:00 haunts me

[@hilenitaati8831]

so wonderful

[@ivank.357]

charming music

[@erboch7124]

How tf is the Contrabass Sarrusophone part cued by Bari Sax? I swear baris do not get enough love in these type pieces

[@wildravez9963]

Well bari doesnt exactly have an important use in the instrumentation that grainger uses. For example, there is already a bass sax, (usually) bass clarinet, bassoon, and other low reeds that can already cover the bari voice.

[@michaelryanarmstrong]

I like the B double flat in measure 192 👍🏽

[@yc691]

hahah my favourite thing about this recording

[@thedragonumiko6142]

I had to play this my sophomore year of highschool. I had just switched instruments about half a year ago. i can still play certain segments. it haunts my nightmares, but it goes so hard. at least it was tenor sax and not clarinet

[@korhonenmikko]

Or as I like to call it, 'MDMA on the Beach'

[@brayrussell3863]

One of the most difficult flute parts I've ever had to play; I don't know if Grainger was a flute player but by the looks of the part he certainly didn't like them

[@deniscarranza4143]

He was a saxophonist.

[@amazingsage1788]

Bro fr ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ

[@troysmithfr]

@@deniscarranza4143 Barely. He was much more a pianist than a saxophonist

[@planetice]

The clarinet player messed up on this recording 4 bars from the end. Still an incredible performance, but quite funny that I knew it was coming.....

[@lizardpeoplepoetry]

that's got to be like a difficult fingering or something because i feel like it always sounds iffy no matter who's playing it

[@ma100292]

lizardpeoplepoetry Not a difficult interval at all. The issue you hear is the rapid movement from Ab to Bb to Ab which are all horrible throat tones on a Bb clarinet to begin with. The best sounding fingering for Bb to eliminate the "iffy" sound is impossible to alternate to from ANY pitch at a quick tempo. This piece will almost always sound iffy in the clarinet tight there.

[@60darklord]

ThatGuyInTheChinatwn I originally thought it sounded like a mess up but now that you mention is def sounds like a trill fingering. Really out of tune but still the correct pitch

[@kennershunag6895]

I personally use the trill fingering which sounds fine, but I think the player in this recording missed the second key so it played a B instead of a C

[@ahuddleofpenguins4842]

planetice my guess is that the player usually plays that Bb (ct. Ab) with some right hand down, since it’s very sharp but they are otherwise in tune. but seeing as they need to use the trill key to get to the C (ct. Bb) above, their right hand couldn’t correct the pitch. and its to quick to play regular C (ct. Bb). All around very difficult and I think the player managed it very well.

[@dallassax]

Contrabass sarrusophone cue at 43. What that instrument in the original band scoring?

[@RyanEntnerMusic]

Yes, although now it’s a rarity

[@mchenrymaney262]

What mad villain puts the clarinet part in bass clef

[@musik350]

every good composer

[@mchenrymaney262]

RDVMusic no

[@Αλέξανδρος-τ2λ]

the actual part probably ain’t in bass clef. it’s only for the convenience of the director/conductor

[@beggsluke]

this was the hardest piece i ever had to play on bassoon

[@rawysocki]

Is the "Steel Marimba" the vibes?

[@pukalo]

The alto clarinet part is pretty tough in this piece.

[@Doilooklikeaeuphonium]

I'm playing this as a 7th grade euphonium and am going to play the solo... nonetheless, this piece is very fun, and i can't wait to perform at uil!!!

[@Yarny-bw1nk]

1:10 I'm playing the Solo Cornet part and this scares me

[@andigomez1993]

We played this in Orchestra back when I was in H.S, and I thought it was fast, but this is 3x’s faster. Also, I thought it was about getting High by the beach... which turns out is another song by Lana Del Rey...

[@charlesdavis7087]

Simply marvelous !!! American... as Charles Ives, Charles Griffes, Steven Foster, G. Gershwin, A. Copland and Agnes De Mille playing together. "Molly on the Shore," indeed. Thank you all for sharing. CVD

[@izhaanahmed3038]

Grainger composed this piece 2 years after he gained his American citizenship, so I'm with you.

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

@@izhaanahmed3038 But it's funny how Grainger's music sounds absolutely nothing like any of the composers mentioned above. Why make these comparisons. Grainger is Grainger, Ives is Ives etc etc ad nausem.

[@amandaseery9225]

Bro was 13 when he wrote this John

[@Lukesieve]

More like Molly On the Score

[@dylanh8602]

1:40

[@krane.kk8827]

Love

[@epthopper]

gradually louden lots

[@lowheadvarney158]

Do you know where i can get an audio recording of this song?

[@smijification]

Amazon Music

[@Bigjuggs64]

Is there an uncompressed version ?

[@Cmaj7]

There is, but it' not on imslp.

[@Bigjuggs64]

@@Cmaj7 (Thank you for your reply) Then where is it ?

[@Cmaj7]

@@Bigjuggs64 You can buy it e.g. here www.jwpepper.com/Molly-on-the-Shore/2403392.item#/

[@Bigjuggs64]

@@Cmaj7 Thank you so much !

[@WilliamTWJ]

Molly on the shore? More like a human in a typhoon!

[@noahsoloski]

Reminds me of shepherds hey

[@dylanh8602]

2:32

[@Mollymch]

This is a really cool piece. And it has my name in it lol

[@gabrielfaure9091]

Better at 1.25x

[@JackSparrow-ez6bp]

2018

[@majapechanach5982]

lmao who plays eb clarinet?? those high fs tho

[@joshmurray9969]

Machu pichu shitted on this

[@SaltedGuacamolly]

They transposed if for strings and I have to play it in highschool please help But my name isssss Molly so that’s a plus and a bad thing (when ur name gets called out 50 times in a piece because it’s ur name it’s gets very annoying)

[@jsaavedr1]

My 5th grade beginning band class played this already. It's super easy, piece of cake. Lol

[@londondubplates]

fkn lol 😂

[@albieh2563]

Somebody is full of soup.

[@Someone2464-]

Shepherd’s hey on steroids.

[@NeedNoSleep]

Number 600 on likes -_-

[@benbroverman5150]

Is it just me or is this piece annoying as hell. Repetitive and non convincing

[@donnix6931]

Ben Broverman Are you serious?? Grainger is brilliant , the piece is an Irish reel in which the main theme does repeat yes, but it's classic grainger how he moves that melody among the different voices in a wind band, He had such an ear for transposing English/Irish folk tunes and dances for symphonic band. Non convincing......I'm very convinced.

[@benbroverman5150]

Don nix I don't doubt his orchestration skills. He clearly writes very well for band. But as for the music itself..to each is their own I suppose. I'm not questioning his musicality..just not a huge fan of his style.

[@donnix6931]

Ben Broverman I respect your opinion and I understand a lot his works have a certain sound which is not everyone's cup of tea, that's why we love music, we can enjoy and listen to anything and nothing has to be liked by all.

[@jackhayes1551]

I see this piece similar (in some ways) to Grainger's pieces with the underlying accompaniment rhythm. The first piece that comes to mind is Shepherd's Hey. I also see it in Holst's Mars.

[@LydsTherinNotamon]

Oh yes, but Bolero is a masterpiece?

[@johnwilkins-704]

3:00

[@johnwilkins-704]

1:10

[@Minty_iced_tea]

0:17

[@Chu-ob4kz]

1:21