Grainger, Percy Aldridge % Hill Song #1 (score & parts) - 2FL/6OB/6EH/6BSN/CBSN

Hill Song #1for two flutes, six oboes, six English horns, six bassoons, and contrabassoonby Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) - Australian composer, arranger, and pianist This is merely an exploration of musically-hilly ways, a gathering of types for future Hill-Songs, a catalogue.- Percy Grainger Edited by Alan Stout, 1969 Percy Grainger's Hill Song #1 remains a problematic work nearly 100 years after its composition. As the earliest work by this major composer which was scored entirely for wind instruments, it is an early indication of the great works for wind band that were to follow. Unfortunately, the composer was so convinced of the impracticality of its demands that he never pursued the possibility of having the work performed in its original scoring in his lifetime. In 1921, Grainger arranged ("dished-up") this work for two pianos, at which time he significantly revised the placement of the barlines and established a thoroughly consistent use of mixed meters. This two-piano s