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Download or read book Percy Grainger written by John Bird and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-03-18 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed biography of Percy Grainger gives the first circumstantial account of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century music. Behind the glittering public image lay a tragic and chaotic personal life — mother-domination, sexual unorthodoxy, eccentric athleticism, a demonic spiritual drive, and a wildly inconsistent personal philosophy. This book beautifully balances the brilliance with the turbulence. First published in 1976 but long unavailable, this new edition has been very extensively revised, updated, and reset. 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.
Book Synopsis Suite for Percy Granger by : Jessica L. Wilkinson
Download or read book Suite for Percy Granger written by Jessica L. Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Suite for Percy Grainger: a biography' is an experimental poetic work on the life and times of one of Australia's most innovative and diversely accomplished musicians and composers, Percy Grainger. Alongside his immense musical output - including original compositions and folk-song arrangements - Grainger was also a keen essayist, a voracious reader, a dedicated letter writer, and an eager archivist, establishing the Grainger Museum as a repository for over 100,000 items including correspondence, clothing, musical manuscripts, instruments and everyday objects (not to forget his infamous whip collection). Of interest to Wilkinson, as a poet with one eye wandering into historical archives, is how one might write a biography sympathetic to Grainger's personality, lifestyle and philosophies. "Jessica L. Wilkinson is the patient recorder of the rhythms and riffs of Percy Grainger's life and the brilliant medium hosting his artistic vision. In its wild, spooling energies, this book is an anatomy of creativity and life writing, celebrating point and counterpoint of the poetics of music and music's poetry."- Felicity Plunkett Jessica L. Wilkinson's first book of poetry 'marionette: a biography of miss marion davies' was published by Vagabond Press in 2012 and shortlisted for the 2014 Kenneth Slessor Prize. She is the founding editor of RABBIT: a journal for nonfiction poetry. In 2014, Jessica won the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and was the recipient of a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and is Senior Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne.
Book Synopsis English Folk Songs by : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Download or read book English Folk Songs written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).
Book Synopsis Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger by : Malcolm Gillies
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.
Download or read book Percy Grainger written by Robert Simon and published by GIA Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Comrades in Art by : Ronald Stevenson
Download or read book Comrades in Art written by Ronald Stevenson and published by Musicians on Music. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two men soon found that, despite their half-century difference in age, they had many affinities. Both were pianists of staggering abilities and composers who combined a love for folk-music and working-class art with an aesthetic that proposed a `world music' to include the farthest reaches of humanity. Both made an art of piano trascription of a wide variety of works and were champions of little-known music and composers. And both revered the work of Walt Whitman, that great poet of inclusivity, the pioneering spirit and the open road. --
Book Synopsis 'A Commonsense View of All Music' by : John Blacking
Download or read book 'A Commonsense View of All Music' written by John Blacking and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989-11-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Blacking restates and reflects upon observations and attitudes relevant to contemporary problems of ethnomusicology and music education.
Download or read book Country Gardens written by Percy Grainger and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Portrait of Percy Grainger by : Malcolm Gillies
Download or read book Portrait of Percy Grainger written by Malcolm Gillies and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grainger's music is being revived at a growing rate, especially in the United States, Britain and his native Australia. This is a riveting look at the driven, engaging personality who composed such fascinating pieces."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Facing Percy Grainger by : David Pear
Download or read book Facing Percy Grainger written by David Pear and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2006 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The New Percy Grainger Companion by : Penelope Thwaites
Download or read book The New Percy Grainger Companion written by Penelope Thwaites and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection with contributions from performing musicians and Grainger scholars and a detailed Catalogue of Works.
Book Synopsis Shepherd's Hey by : R. Mark (CRT) Rogers
Download or read book Shepherd's Hey written by R. Mark (CRT) Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Music
Book Synopsis A Source Guide to the Music of Percy Grainger by : Thomas P. Lewis
Download or read book A Source Guide to the Music of Percy Grainger written by Thomas P. Lewis and published by Pro Am Music Resources. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Farthest North of Humanness by : Percy Aldridge Grainger
Download or read book Farthest North of Humanness written by Percy Aldridge Grainger and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-06-18 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wind Band Masterworks of Holst, Vaughan Williams and Grainger by : Willis M. Rapp
Download or read book The Wind Band Masterworks of Holst, Vaughan Williams and Grainger written by Willis M. Rapp and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Meredith Music Resource). With this superb text, Dr. Rapp gives the wind band community both a historical and musical insight into three of its most revered composers. His study of their band works' evolvement through traditional folk music will serve as a fascinating resource, giving both veteran and novice conductors an invaluable understanding of the band repertoire's formative stages.
Book Synopsis The Life and Work of Percy Aldridge Grainger by : Teresa R. Balough
Download or read book The Life and Work of Percy Aldridge Grainger written by Teresa R. Balough and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Grainger Journal Vol. 1 by : David Pear
Download or read book Grainger Journal Vol. 1 written by David Pear and published by UoM Custom Book Centre. This book was released on 2011 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
