This is a short piano version of Children's March. Grainger scored it for band after composing the piano solo. Most of Grainger's works were based on existing folk melodies, but he created his own for Children's March, which is probably his most effective original tune. It was dedicated to "My playmate beyond the hills," believed to be Karen Holton, a Scandinavian beauty with whom Grainger corresponded for 8 years but wouldn't marry because of his mother's jealousy.
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