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Grainger the Modernist (Paperback)
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Grainger the Modernist (Paperback)
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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, Leon 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.
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