| Description |
xiii, 270 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
'The beauty of bravery' : alternative modernisms, de-historicizing Grainger / Sarah Collins and Simon Perry -- Grainger and the performativity of folk song / Graham Freeman -- A 'treat equal to Wagner' : Grainger's interactions with the music and culture of Polynesia / Graham Barwell -- 'A natural innovationist' : Percy Grainger's early British folk song settings / Dorothy de Val -- Giving voice to 'the painfulness of human life' : Grainger's folk song settings and musical irony / Peter Tregear -- Grainger and the 'new iconoclasts' : forays into modernist French music / Emily Kilpatrick -- The Hispanic Grainger : encounters with the modern Spanish school / Michael Christoforidis and Ken Murray -- Minstrelsy, ragtime, 'improvisatory music' and Percy Grainger's 'unwritten music' / John Whiteoak -- When Grainger was ultra-modernist : a study of the American reception of In a nutshell (1916) / Suzanne Robinson -- 'Serious music' : the Brisbane reception of Grainger's historical chamber music recitals (1934) / Samantha Owens -- Percy Grainger, Henry Cowell and the origins of the world music survey course / Peter Schimpf -- Grainger as educator : on the first performance of The immovable do for wind band / Phillip Allen Correll -- Percy Grainger : a pioneer of electronic music / Andrew Hugill. |
| Summary |
"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, Léon 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."--Publisher. |
| Language |
English text. |
| Subject |
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Robinson, Suzanne, 1963- editor.
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Dreyfus, Kay, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781472420220 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781472420237 (ebook) |
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1472420233 (ebook) |
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1472420225 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781472420244 (epub) |
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1472420241 (epub) |
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1472420233 (ebook) |
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