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Author : Thomas P. Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015027665515
Author : Percy Grainger
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198166656
Prolific as a composer, performer, and recording artist, Percy Grainger was an indefatigable writer. This selection of forty-six essays about the production, promotion, and propagation of music is drawn from his over 150 public writings. Their topics range over his own and his friends' compositional plans, piano technique, Free Music', instrumental usage, and his ideas on artistic development in the United States, Australian, and his beloved Nordic lands.
Author : Percy Grainger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Piano music
ISBN : CUB:U183007903932
Author : Wilfrid Mellers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000272919
A man of extraordinary charisma, Percy Grainger was at once a legendary virtuoso pianist, a composer of highly original music, an arranger, and a "disher up" of folk music who pierced to the music's heart, and figure of some historical significance in relation to ethnomusicology and musiceducation. A study of the music of this paradoxical figure, this book looks at the musical influence on his compositions of folk-song and of Grieg, and of those apparent polar opposites, Delius and Bach. It examines some of his more significant pieces in detail; considers his work in recreatingtraditional material and the music of others; sees him as a champion and transcriber of what is now known as Early Music; and looks at his sometimes alarmingly eccentric notions as to music's nature and purpose. Overriding barriers between art, folk, and pop music, Grainger is difficult tocategorize, and is, in the history of music, unique.
Author : Grainger Museum,Kay Dreyfus,Phil Clifford
Publisher : Parkville, Vic. : Board of the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Composers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011370280
Author : John Bird
Publisher : London : P. Elek
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015007878377
John Bird's acclaimed biography of the Australian-born composer and pianist Percy Grainger gives the first full account of the life and works of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century music. Behind Grainger's highly original compositional achievements, folksong collecting, and glittering career as a virtuoso concert pianist lay a tragic and chaotic personal life--long domination by his mother, unorthodox sexual predilections, an eccentric athleticism, a demonic spiritual drive, and a wildly inconsistent personal philosophy with Anglo-Saxon obsessions such as his famous "Blue-Eyed English." A list of published compositions, a current discography of performances by Grainger, and a selection of his seminal writings complete what has already proved to be a standard work.This fully revised edition includes much new biographical material from John Bird's continuing research. Grainger's reputation and popularity as a uniquely individual composer continue to grow, and this book remains the definitive biography.
Author : Percy Grainger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Dance music
ISBN : CUB:U183003777703
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015018107774
Author : David Pear
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Robert Simon
Publisher : GIA Publications
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Music
ISBN : 0878752811
Author : Charles Villiers Stanford,Percy Grainger
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781528767163
This volume contains Charles V. Stanford’s “Four Irish Dances”, a collection of musical compositions for piano arranged by Percy Grainger. George Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882 – 1961) was an Australian–born composer, arranger and pianist. His experimental and unusual work was pivotal to the revival of British folk music during the first part of the 20th century. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in traditional Irish folk music, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Stanford's seminal work. Contents include: “A March – Jig (Maguire's Kick)”, “A Slow Dance”, “The Leprechaun's Dance”, and “A Reel”. Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 – 1924) was an Irish composer, conductor, and teacher of music. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and continued his studies in Berlin and Leipzig. He was a very influential composer, responsible for making Cambridge University Musical Society an internationally-acclaimed organisation. Stanford was also a profuse composer, producing a large corpus of work in many genres; however, he is perhaps best remembered for his Anglican choral works for church performance. His music eventually became overshadowed by that of Edward Elgar and a number of his former pupils in the 20th century. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of musical notation.
Author : Teresa Balough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015048373800
Author : Percy Grainger,Daniel Adni,John Hopkins,Brian Hansford,Joan Dargavel,Lance Stirling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Orchestral music
ISBN : OCLC:221458400
Author : Percy Grainger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032251798
Percy Grainger was one of the most colourful of this century's cultural figures. As a pianist and largely self-taught composer he was feted in the 1910s and 1920s, and is probably still best known for the work he `dished up' in many different guises, Country Gardens. But Grainger aspired tothe role of `the all-round man' and nourished ideas, some brilliant, others ludicrous, across the full range of human endeavour: race, nationality, sex, language, life-style, food, clothes, technology, ecology.The All-Round Man depicts that scrambling diversity through seventy-six uninhibited letters from Grainger's `American' years, 1914-61. These letters are fascinating to read: they are cultivated `rambles' (as Grainger actually called several of his compositions), not dissimilar to today's telephoneconversations. Often written in Grainger's crunchy `Blue-eyed English', they explore uninhibitedly every corner of his public and private life. They reflect the magnificent attempts of a great but flawed mind to encompass the world.From the letters:`Personally I do not feel like a modern person at all. I feel quite at home in South Sea Island music, in Maori legends, in the Icelandic Sagas, in the Anglo-Saxon `Battle of Brunnanburh', feel very close to Negroes in various countries, but hardly understand modern folk at all.'`Music seems almost to have a "surface", a smooth surface, a grained surface, a prickly surface to the ear. All these distinguishing characteristics (roughly hinted at in the above silly similes) are to me the "body of music" are to music what "looks", skin, hair are in a person, the actual stuffand manifestation whereby we know it and recognize it'`You said that too much such treatment annoyed, nerveteased you. Then let me thus tease you while you punish me for the annoyance I give you: Let me lay my weight upon, momi-ing at yr heavenbringing uma, while you thrash my bottom, back and legs in rising annoyance'
Author : Malcolm Gillies,David Pear,Mark Carroll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,9 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.