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Author : Grainger Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Composers
ISBN : PSU:000031649988
Author : Malcolm Gillies,David Pear,Mark Carroll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199719411
Shortly before his death, Percy Grainger (1882-1961) lodged over twenty unpublished sketches in his Australian Museum.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 : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527505186
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCBK:C081538273
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433068927304
Author : David Pear
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780642276391
Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) was a celebrated pianist and composer of over 1200 works and arrangements, a pioneering folklore collector, musical inventor, conductor, social commentator and archivist, whose extraordinary life was played out across Australia, Europe and America.
Author : Lewis Foreman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015007878393
Author : Thomas P. Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015027665515
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433012204867
Author : Percy Grainger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Piano music
ISBN : CUB:U183007903932
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1674 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Music
ISBN : CHI:097536084
Author : Percy Aldridge Grainger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985-06-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781349076277
Author : Lillian Baldwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Music appreciation
ISBN : UOM:39015009608574
Author : Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Concert programs
ISBN : UCAL:B5092519
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Concert programs
ISBN : NYPL:33433075619308