Two Tit-Bits of Room-Music

<p>While renowned for his imaginative folk-music settings Percy Grainger also composed a number of original works in a folk-music style. This new study score presents two Grainger originals written in the manner of English folk music. The first <em>Mock Morris</em> composed in the style of an English morris dance was one of the earliest composed (1910). The second one <em>Handel in the Strand</em> likewise heavily influenced by the style of morris-dance tunes - with the indication that it is to be played to or without clog-dancing.</p><p>As with many of Grainger's British Folk-Music settings both of these exist in multiple arrangements - dished-up by the composer himself as part of his own Room-Music Tit-Bits series. Composed between 1910 and 1912 <em>Mock Morris is </em>scored for an ensemble of string sextet (or string orchestra) while <em>Handel in the Strand </em>is for piano quartet. The scores offered here are digitally restored reissues of the ones published in 1911 and 1912 by Schott & Co. Ltd. of London. The full scores and parts for both of these works are also available from Serenissima Music.</p>