AN ANALYSIS OF GRAINGER’S THE ‘GUM-SUCKERS’ MARCH – IN-DEPTH MUSIC ANALYSIS

Analyzing One of My Favorite Pieces

In this project, I had to analyze a piece of music in detail both harmonically and structurally. This was one of my favorite pieces from my all-time favorite composer, so I had to take this opportunity while I could! This technical paper shows my ability to analyze and synthesize something in a sophisticated manner.

Includes: Analysis Paper with links to music and sheet music.

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An Analysis of Grainger’s The ‘Gum-Suckers’ March – In-Depth Music Analysis: Project

An Analysis of Grainger’s "The ‘Gum-Suckers’ March"

4th Movement from his 'In a Nutshell' Suite

Below I have linked the paper itself as well as a YouTube video with synced audio and score to follow along with, said video was not made by me. The first embedded audio is the recording used in the aforementioned YouTube video, and is the preferred listening experience. An additional embedded audio is a piano rendition of the same piece which has reduced dynamics allowing playback in a variety of listening conditions.

Analysis Paper

Auto-scrolling Score w/ Audio

An Analysis of Grainger’s The ‘Gum-Suckers’ March – In-Depth Music Analysis: Text

Original Orchestral Arrangement

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Piano Four-Hands Arrangement

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Sheet Music

Below is a link to the public domain sheet music for both versions above.

Full Orchestral Score: Under the 'Full Scores' tab.
Piano Reduction Score: Under the 'Arrangements and Transcriptions' tab.

Links to Sheet Music

An Analysis of Grainger’s The ‘Gum-Suckers’ March – In-Depth Music Analysis: Text