Molly on the Shore

Composer: GRAINGER, Percy
  • This is another of Percy Grainger’s pre-WWI works, from the time he was based in London, establishing a career as a concert pianist, and collecting folk songs. Molly on the Shore was composed in 1907.1
  • Grainger composed this piece as a birthday gift to his mother.2
  • Grainger called the original version an “Irish Reel for Piano” and recorded that the piece was actually based on two folk tunes, “Molly on the Shore” and “Temple Hill,” both of which he found in The Complete Petrie Collection of Ancient Irish Music ed. Charles Villiers Stanford.3

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. “Molly on the Shore,” in A Source Guide to the Music of Percy Grainger, Thomas P. Lewis, ed. (White Plains, New York: Pro-Am Music Resources, 1991), The Percy Grainger Society, accessed October 15, 2019, http://www.percygrainger.org/prognot7.htm.
  3. Ibid.

Cut IDs

41433, 42745, 45016