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Percy Grainger
THE FIRST CHANTEY for voice & piano
Bardic Edition BDE106

Catalogue Number: BDE0106

ISMN: 9790502441357

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'The First Chantey' comes from Kipling's The Seven Seas and Grainger's setting dates from 7th and 8th February, 1899. In 1903 Grainger began work on an instrumental setting based on the version published here, to which he returned from time to time over a number of years. Regrettably, the instrumental setting was never completed and exists only in the form of several sketches. As the song unfolds, Grainger's music manages to capture perfectly in sound the mood of this unusual poem, and it must surely rank high amongst Grainger's earliest original creations which he called his 'Youthful Toneworks'.

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