Grainger dedicated his 'bunch of Wildflowers' to 'the old folksingers who sang so sweetly to me'.

In the piece's program notes, Grainger wrote: '.Each number is intended to be a kind of musical portrait of the singer who sang its underlying melody-a musical portrait of the singer’s personality no less than of his habits of song-his regular or irregular interpretation of the rhythm, his preference for gaunt or ornately arabesqued delivery, his contrasts of legato and staccato, his tendency towards breadth or delicacy of tone.' Unlike other composers who attempted to alter and modernize folk music, such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Grainger wished to maintain the exact stylizing that he experienced from the originals. The work debuted with three movements on Maperformed by the Milwaukee Symphonic Band, a group composed of members from bands including the Blatz Brewery and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer factory worker bands in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In a similar fashion to these folk songs, many of the movements are in strophic form. Considered by John Bird, the author of Grainger's biography, to be his masterpiece, the 16-minute-long work has six movements, each adapted from folk songs that Grainger had collected on a 1905–1906 trip to Lincolnshire, England.

Lincolnshire Posy is a musical composition by Percy Grainger for concert band commissioned in 1937 by the American Bandmasters Association. Percy Grainger, the composer of the piece

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