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Composition Year | 1904 |
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Genre Categories | Folksongs; Songs; Scores with open instrumentation; |
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Work Title | The Hunter in His Career |
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Alternative. Title | Settings of Songs & Tunes from William Chappel's Old English Popular Music, Nos.3 & 4 |
Composer | Grainger, Percy |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IPG 11 |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1904 |
First Publication. | 1904 - London: Vincent |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Early 20th century |
Piece Style | Early 20th century |
Instrumentation | see below, Comments |
According to percygrainger.org this song was originally for "Elastic Scoring (2 instruments up to massed orchestra, with or without voice or voices). All other versions (for piano duet, piano solo, and so on) are off-shoots from the root-form."