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Colonial Song is a musical composition written by Australian composer Percy Grainger. Although Grainger created versions for different types of musical ensembles, its most commonly used version today is for concert band.

Background

Grainger initially wrote Colonial Song in 1911 as a piano piece as a gift to his mother, Rose.

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Of his piece, Grainger wrote that it was "an attempt to write a melody as typical of the Australian countryside as Stephen Foster's exquisite songs are typical of rural America".^[1] Although the piece seems to have been intended as part of a series of 'Sentimentals',^{[clarification needed]} Grainger never wrote any other pieces in this series.

Unlike many of Grainger's other compositions, the melodies of Colonial Song are not based on folk song, but are original melodies.

Versions

Although originally written as a piano solo, Grainger arranged Colonial Song in several other versions.

Among the versions pu