The Life and Work of Percy Aldridge Grainger
Title | The Life and Work of Percy Aldridge Grainger PDF eBook |
Author | Teresa R. Balough |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 676 |
Release | 2023-06-08 |
Genre | 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 It makes use of many heretofore unpublished documents and musical examples and is written in such a way as to be accessible to all while also offering a detailed study of his musical works.
Percy Grainger
Title | Percy Grainger PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Simon |
Publisher | GIA Publications |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780878752812 |
Percy Grainger Music Collection
Title | Percy Grainger Music Collection PDF eBook |
Author | Grainger Museum |
Publisher | Parkville, Vic. : Board of the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
"Cuter than a cupcake and more delicious, the adorable macaron is tráes en vogue. Now you can make these crowd-pleasing cookies at home! Packed with helpful and inspiring color photos, this book offers everything you need to bake stunning macarons..."--P. [4] of cover.
Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music
Title | Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole V. Gagné |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 545 |
Release | 2019-07-17 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1538122987 |
The contemporary music scene thus embodies a uniquely broad spectrum of activity, which has grown and changed down to the present hour. With new talents emerging and different technologies developing as we move further into the 21st century, no one can predict what paths music will take next. All we can be certain of is that the inspiration and originality that make music live will continue to bring awe, delight, fascination, and beauty to the people who listen to it. This book cover modernist and postmodern concert music worldwide from the years 1888 to 2018. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on the most important composers, musicians, methods, styles, and media in modernist and postmodern classical music worldwide, from 1888 to 2018. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about modern and contemporary classical music.
Grainger Journal Vol. 1
Title | Grainger Journal Vol. 1 PDF eBook |
Author | David Pear |
Publisher | UoM Custom Book Centre |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1921775424 |
Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger
Title | Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Gillies |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2006-06-29 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0190294094 |
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.
Sourcebook for Wind Band and Instrumental Music
Title | Sourcebook for Wind Band and Instrumental Music PDF eBook |
Author | Russ Girsberger |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2014-11-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1574631802 |
(Meredith Music Resource). This sourcebook was created to aid directors and teachers in finding the information they need and expand their general knowledge. The resources were selected from hundreds of published and on-line sources found in journals, magazines, music company catalogs and publications, numerous websites, doctoral dissertations, graduate theses, encyclopedias, various databases, and a great many books. Information was also solicited from outstanding college/university/school wind band directors and instrumental teachers. The information is arranged in four sections: Section 1 General Resources About Music Section 2 Specific Resources Section 3 Use of Literature Section 4 Library Staffing and Management