Londonderry Air Arrangement

Subject: Londonderry Air Arrangement
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 01:19 PM

I have just had passed on to me, a set of variations for wind band, of the Londonderry Air. The arrangement is extraordinarily beautiful, but I've never heard it before and do not know who composed it. Neither did the person who passed it on to me. I have a suspicion it might have been Percy Grainger, although various googlings bring up only the choral setting he made of that piece. I wonder if anyone out there might know for certain.

Two clues. 1. It's about four and a quarter minutes long. 2. About three minutes and forty five seconds in, it rises to a great crescendo and the crescendo is reinforced with a cymbals clash.

Subject: RE: Londonderry Air Arrangement
From: GUEST,melinda
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 09:05 PM

Grainger did write a band arrangement of this tune, but it was called "Irish Tune From County Derry." Does your arrangement say this? I also would think that if it was his arrangement, it would say so somewhere on each of the parts.
Can you describe it? I mean physically - the wording, copyright, publisher, etc. I'll ask my band-music-expert friend if he knows.

Subject: RE: Londonderry Air Arrangement
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 10:05 PM

This Google Search will lead you to information about Grainger's arrangement, including a YouTube video of a not-very-good performance. This video (click) is a very nice performance (with the cymbals you noted).
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Londonderry Air Arrangement
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 25 Nov 07 - 05:14 AM

Thanks folks. That's the one.