Percy Grainger Music Collection Part 2 Graingers Collection Of Music By Other Composers

Author : Grainger Museum
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Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book Percy Grainger Music Collection. Part 2: Grainger's Collection of Music by Other Composers written by Grainger Museum and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grainger Museum
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Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book Percy Grainger's Gift to the Land of His Birth written by Grainger Museum and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kay Dreyfus
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Download or read book Percy Grainger music collection written by Kay Dreyfus and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Malcolm Gillies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199719419
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger written by Malcolm Gillies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly before his death, Percy Grainger (1882-1961) lodged over twenty unpublished sketches in his Australian Museum. Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger draws exclusively from these sketches, revealing for the first time an illuminating portrait of the composer's life. With such titles as "The Aldridge-Grainger-Strom Saga," "Thunks," "Ere-I-Forget," "The Love-Life of Helen and Paris," and "Anecdotes," these manuscripts were intended as precursors to Grainger's autobiography, My Wretched Tone-Life, which he only commenced in his final years. Expertly shaping these sketches, the editors have created a "self-portrait" along the lines that Grainger himself had intended. The volume first introduces Grainger's forebears, parents, friends, wife, and himself before moving on to his views on composition, performance, and the musical world. In these sketches, Grainger addresses such topics as racial and national identity, the meaning of work, physical culture, language reform, sexual practice, and artistic patronage. Grainger also probes the nature of musical genius, discussing a broad range of composers including Igor Stravinsky, Thomas Beecham, Frederick Delius, Edvard Grieg, Charles Stanford, Cyril Scott, Fritz Kreisler, Donald Tovey, Ferruccio Busoni, and Balfour Gardiner. Among the works of his own that Grainger most featured are his The Warriors --Music for an Imaginary Ballet, Colonial Song, the Lincolnshire Posy series of band pieces, his greatest "hit" Country Gardens, and his many settings of English folk-music. Written in Grainger's own self-created "Nordic English" as well as translated from Danish, the language of his most intimate confessions, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger sheds light on some of the most revealing details of the composer's life. The sketches trace Grainger's changing self-perception, from the romantically tinged, even lustful, views of his forties and fifties, through a period of wistfulness in his sixties, to the bitterness and self-loathing of his old age. The volume also includes several of Grainger's own drawings as well as both public and private photographs. A fascinating and revealing collection of vignettes, this extraordinary book will appeal to instructors, students, and enthusiasts in musicology, music history, cultural studies, and Australian, British, and American history.

Author : Grainger Museum
Publisher : Parkville, Vic. : Board of the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Percy Grainger Music Collection written by Grainger Museum and published by Parkville, Vic. : Board of the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne. This book was released on 1978 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Studies in Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suzanne Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317125029
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grainger the Modernist written by Suzanne Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unaccountably, Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of both American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals the well-known composer of popular gems to be a self-described ’hyper-modernist’ who composed works of uncompromising dissonance, challenged the conventions of folk song collection and adaptation, re-visioned the modern orchestra, experimented with ’ego-less’ composition and designed electronic machines intended to supersede human application. Grainger was far from being a self-sufficient maverick working in isolation. Through contact with innovators such as Ferrucio Busoni, Léon Theremin and Henry Cowell; promotion of the music of modern French and Spanish schools; appreciation of vernacular, jazz and folk musics; as well as with the study and transcription of non-Western music; he contested received ideas and proposed many radical new approaches. By reappraising Grainger’s social and historical connectedness and exploring the variety of aspects of modernity seen in his activities in the British, American and Australian contexts, the authors create a profile of a composer, propagandist and visionary whose modernist aesthetic paralleled that of the most advanced composers of his day, and, in some cases, anticipated their practical experiments.

Author : Lewis Foreman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Percy Grainger Companion written by Lewis Foreman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kay Dreyfus
Publisher : Lyrebird Press
ISBN 13 : 0734037945
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Dreams written by Kay Dreyfus and published by Lyrebird Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percy Grainger’s childhood imagining of a music capable of reproducing the sounds of nature was translated, in his later life, into the creation of wondrously inventive “Free Music” machines. Mostly made from found materials, these machines take their place in a proud tradition of sound art, at a point where the aural and the visual intersect. Two minds converged on the creation of the machines: the one self-taught and intuitive, the other scientifically trained and rigorous. The exchange of letters between the two men charts their journey of discovery and the friendship that grew from it: a grand passionate human adventure.

Author : Kay Dreyfus
Publisher : University of Western Australia Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Percy Grainger's Kipling Settings written by Kay Dreyfus and published by University of Western Australia Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: