Percy Grainger
TIGER-TIGER!
Bardic Edition BDE649
set for 3 descant, 1 treble and 1 tenor recorders
This work exists in numerous arrangements by the composer ranging from piano solo to brass ensemble. The original version for male voice chorus a cappella dates from 1898 and is a setting of the verse heading for the story Tiger -Tiger! from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. In 1905 Grainger made some revisions, and it is this version that appears as the ninth movement in his Jungle Book cycle. The manuscript for this recorder version is undated although Grainger went back to his original revisions and possibly set this around 1946 when he also scored the piece for violoncello quintet.
Score and all parts included.
This work exists in numerous arrangements by the composer ranging from piano solo to brass ensemble. The original version for male voice chorus a cappella dates from 1898 and is a setting of the verse heading for the story Tiger -Tiger! from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. In 1905 Grainger made some revisions, and it is this version that appears as the ninth movement in his Jungle Book cycle. The manuscript for this recorder version is undated although Grainger went back to his original revisions and possibly set this around 1946 when he also scored the piece for violoncello quintet.
Score and all parts included.
