Colonial Song version for two voices and piano or piano alone 葛林傑 歌 人聲鋼琴鋼琴 鋼琴獨奏 朔特版

在這首曲子中，我沒有使用任何傳統曲調，我希望通過這首曲子表達我對自己國家（澳大利亞）和人民的個人情感，同時也表達我對土生土長的殖民地人民的某種情感。 生活在廣袤的處女地上，或多或少有些孤獨，與自然和氣候的艱難困苦作鬥爭（而不是像在人口較稠密的地方那樣，與更積極、更戲劇性地激動人心的同胞的反意志作鬥爭）的人，在很大程度上會產生一種耐心嚮往、積極感傷的懷舊情緒，這也許並非不自然，我們在許多美國藝術作品中都能看到這種感人至深的表達；例如，在馬克-吐溫的《哈克貝利-費恩》和斯蒂芬-C. 福斯特的可愛歌曲《我的肯塔基老家》、《老鄉在家》等。我還注意到，在澳大利亞的銅管樂隊表演和演唱方式中，有一種奇特的、幾乎類似義大利的音樂傾向（如偏愛豐富、強烈的音色和深情而寬廣的樂句，而不是更微妙、更敏感的各種細膩表達），這在這裡也有所體現

作曲家: Grainger, George Percy Aldridge
樂器: soprano, tenor and piano or piano alone
出版社: Schott Music

曲目:
Vocal instructions for Soprano and Tenor: Breathe when you like, and sing on any combinations of any vowels and consonants (such as (Italian vowels) la, ra, ta, ta-da, pa-da-ba, tr-ri-di, etc.) that you find comfortable and effective.

原文簡介:
No traditional tunes of any kind are made use of in this piece, in which I have wished to express my personal feelings about my own country (Australia) and people, and also to voice a certain kind of emotion that seems to me not untypical of native-born Colonials in general.Perhaps it is not unnatural that people living more or less lonelily in vast virgin countries and struggling against natural and climatic hardships (rather than against the more actively and dramaticly exciting counter wills of their fellow men, as in more thickly populated lands) should run largely to that patiently yearning, inactive sentimental wistfulness that we find so touchingly expressed in much American art; for instance in Mark Twains Huckleberry Finn, and Stephen C. Foster's adorable songs, My Old Kentucky Home, Old Folks at Home, etc. I have also noticed curious, almost Italian-like, musical tendencies in brass band performances and ways of singing in Australia (such as a preference for richness and intensity of tone and soulful breadth of phrasing over more subtly and sensitively varied delicacies of expression) which are also reflected here.Percy Aldridge Grainger