Mock Morris

Composer: GRAINGER, Percy
  • Grainger composed this piece in 1910. At the time he was working in London as a concert pianist and piano instructor. He was also collecting, recording and transcribing folksongs.1
  • Grainger played “Mock Morris,” along with virtuosic works by other composers, at his debut recital in New York in 1915, beginning a very successful career as a concert pianist in the USA.2 He had emigrated to the USA in 1914.3
  • Grainger created several arrangements of this work. The original version was for an ensemble of six string instruments.
  • This piece is an original work by Grainger, not based on an existing folk tune. It was inspired by English Morris dancing.4

Sources

  1. Malcolm Gillies and David Pear, “Grainger, (George) Percy,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 10, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000011596.
  2. Eleanor Tan, “Grainger the Performer,” in Facing Percy Grainger, David Pear, ed. (Canberra, Australia: National Library of Australia, 2006), 20.
  3. Kay Dreyfus, “Grainger, George Percy (1882-1961),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 9 (MUP, 1983), accessed October 15, 2019, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/grainger-george-percy-6448.
  4. Gregory C. Depp, “Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Mock Morris (1910) (Trans. by Joseph Kreines),” MetWinds Metropolitan Wind Symphony, accessed October 15, 2019, https://www.metwinds.org/media/pdf/notes-2013springconcert.pdf.

Cut IDs

10462, 41431