The Farthest North of Humanness : Letters of Percy Grainger 1901-14
Author : Kay Dreyfus (editor)
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Kay Dreyfus (editor)
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Percy Aldridge Grainger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 1985-06-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 1349076279
Author : David Pear
Publisher : UoM Custom Book Centre
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2011
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ISBN : 1921775424
Author : Percy Grainger
Publisher :
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Robert Simon
Publisher : GIA Publications
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780878752812
Author : Suzanne Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317125029
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 : Malcolm Gillies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199719419
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 : Teresa R. Balough
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 1527505189
What goes into the making of a creative genius and how can their gifts be used to help uplift humankind? These were questions that led the Australian/American pianist, composer, and music educator Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) to exhaustively document his life, his thoughts, and his associations and establish in the country of his birth a museum dedicated to helping answer those questions. Grainger was a creative genius who thought more in terms of the future than of the present and was an advocate for the role that music can play in creating a more harmonious and loving future for humankind. This book is the first attempt to bring together in one volume the details of Grainger’s life as they relate to his music using his own words and those of the people who knew him. It makes use of many heretofore unpublished documents and musical examples and is written in such a way as to be accessible to all while also offering a detailed study of his musical works.
Author : Daniel M. Grimley
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843832102
An examination of the role of landscape and cultural identity in the music of Edvard Grieg.
Author : Frank Battisti
Publisher : Meredith Music
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1476850674
(Meredith Music Resource). This outstanding "one-of-a-kind" text was designed to assist the conductor in achieving a personal interpretation of music.