Percy Grainger
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Percy Grainger
(Oxford studies of composers)
Oxford University Press, 1992
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 162) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Percy Grainger, if not a great composer, was a phenomenon. A man of extraordinary charisma, he was at once a legendary virtuoso pianist, a composer of highly original music, an arranger and 'disher up' of folk music who pierced to the music's heart, and a figure of some historical significance in relation to ethnomusicology and music education. This book is a study of this paradoxical figure. It looks at the musical influence on his compositions of folk-song and of Grieg, and of those apparent polar opposites, Delius and Bach. It examines some of his more significant pieces in detail; considers his work in recreating traditional material and the music of others; sees him as a champion and transcriber of what is now known as Early Music; and looks at his sometimes alarmingly eccentric notions as to music's nature and purpose. Overriding barriers between art, folk, and pop music, Grainger is difficult to categorize, and may be, in the story of music, unique. Ultimately, his importance may lie in what he suggests about the potential functions of music in a rapidly changing world.
Table of Contents
- The importance of being Percy
- Percy Puck and Peter Pan - "rippingly boyish"
- Percy's paradox - the lonely desert man and the hills themselves
- dancing with the happy tribes - Grainger and the human body
- singing with the happy tribes - Grainger and the human voice
- Grainger's guising - music as ritual action and magic spell
- old worlds for new - rambling and meandering through four mini-masterpieces
- presenting the past - the transcriptions and concert-paraphrases
- a "gifted child" looks back to the future - Grainger as innovator and educator
- Grainger as Green man. Appendices: Grainger as guiser - an anthropological note
- Percy Grainger, William Barnes and blue-eyed English.
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