Grainger The Modernist


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Grainger The Modernist


Grainger The Modernist
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Author : Suzanne Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09

Grainger The Modernist written by Suzanne Robinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Music categories.


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.



Grainger The Modernist


Grainger The Modernist
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Author : Suzanne Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09

Grainger The Modernist written by Suzanne Robinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Music categories.


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.



Grainger On Music


Grainger On Music
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Author : Percy Grainger
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1999

Grainger On Music written by Percy Grainger and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Music categories.


Prolific as a composer, performer, and recording artist, Percy 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. Their topics range over his own and his friends' compositional plans, piano technique, Free Music', instrumental usage, and his ideas on artistic development in the United States, Australian, and his beloved Nordic lands.



A Modern Chronicle


A Modern Chronicle
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Author : Winston Churchill
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Company of Canada
Release Date : 1910

A Modern Chronicle written by Winston Churchill and has been published by Macmillan Company of Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Fiction categories.


This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.



The All Round Man


The All Round Man
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Author : Percy Grainger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

The All Round Man written by Percy Grainger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


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 tothe 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 telephoneconversations. 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 stuffand 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 and legs in rising annoyance'



Marks And Monograms On Pottery And Porcelain Of The Renaissance And Modern Periods


Marks And Monograms On Pottery And Porcelain Of The Renaissance And Modern Periods
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Author : William Chaffers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870

Marks And Monograms On Pottery And Porcelain Of The Renaissance And Modern Periods written by William Chaffers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Porcelain categories.




Modern English Biography


Modern English Biography
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Author : Frederic Boase
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892

Modern English Biography written by Frederic Boase and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Great Britain categories.




Percy Aldridge Grainger Symposium


Percy Aldridge Grainger Symposium
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Author : Frank Callaway
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

Percy Aldridge Grainger Symposium written by Frank Callaway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Composers categories.




Modernism Australia


Modernism Australia
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Author : Ann Stephen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Modernism Australia written by Ann Stephen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Architecture categories.


This book reveals that Australia was not in a 'time-lag' but had an up-to-date engangement with international trends and developments in modernism.



Peggy Glanville Hicks


Peggy Glanville Hicks
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Author : Suzanne Robinson
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2019-06-16

Peggy Glanville Hicks written by Suzanne Robinson and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-16 with Music categories.


As both composer and critic, Peggy Glanville-Hicks contributed to the astonishing cultural ferment of the mid-twentieth century. Her forceful voice as a writer and commentator helped shape professional and public opinion on the state of American composing. The seventy musical works she composed ranged from celebrated operas like Nausicaa to intimate, jewel-like compositions created for friends. Her circle included figures like Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, John Cage, and Yehudi Menuhin. Drawing on interviews, archival research, and fifty-four years of extraordinary pocket diaries, Suzanne Robinson places Glanville-Hicks within the history of American music and composers. "P.G.H."--affectionately described as "Australian and pushy"--forged alliances with power brokers and artists that gained her entrance to core American cultural entities such as the League of Composers, New York Herald Tribune, and the Harkness Ballet. Yet her impeccably cultivated public image concealed a private life marked by unhappy love affairs, stubborn poverty, and the painstaking creation of her artistic works. Evocative and intricate, Peggy Glanville-Hicks clears away decades of myth and storytelling to provide a portrait of a remarkable figure and her times.