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A wonderful collection of Percy Grainger's most well-known
compositions arranged for flute and piano. Includes: Australian Up
Country Tune * The Brisk Young Bachelor * Country Gardens * Dublin
Bay (Lisbon) * Early One Morning * Horkstow Grange * Irish Tune
from County Derry * The Lost Lady Found * Molly on the Shore * Ye
Banks and Braes * O'Bonnie Doon.
Two Pianos, Four Hands. 2 Copies needed to perform.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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Grainger on Music (Hardcover)
Percy Grainger; Edited by Malcolm Gillies, Bruce Clunies Ross
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R3,711
Discovery Miles 37 110
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Cyril Scott once described Percy Grainger as a `lovable eccentric'.
The Australian-American pianist, composer, ethnologist, and
aspiring `all-round man' was, however, more eccentric to his own
age than to ours. His views on the environment, food, the body,
participatory democracy, and sex all anticipated by several decades
views more typical of the mid-late twentieth century. Prolific as a
composer, performer, and recording artist, 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. Written between the turn of the century
and the early 1950s, these essays reveal Grainger's youthful
compositional plans, his ideas about piano technique, and his
enduring high regard for the music of Edvard Grieg, Frederick
Delius, and `Frankfurt Group' colleagues Cyril Scott, Roger
Quilter, and Henry Balfour Gardiner. Grainger on Music also pursues
his evolving thoughts about Nordic music, `Free Music',
instrumental usage, and his occasional suggestions for musical
development in Australia and the United States.
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 to the 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 telephone conversations. 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 stuff and 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 & legs in rising annoyance'
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