Grieg

Grieg

Author: Daniel M. Grimley

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781843832102

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An examination of the role of landscape and cultural identity in the music of Edvard Grieg.


Othmar Schoeck

Othmar Schoeck

Author: Chris Walton

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 1580463002

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Places the Swiss composer Schoeck, master of a late-Romantic style both sensuous and stringent, in context and gives insight into his increasingly popular musical works.


Distant Dreams

Distant Dreams

Author: Kay Dreyfus

Publisher: Lyrebird Press

Published: 2020-01-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0734037945

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Percy Grainger’s childhood imagining of a music capable of reproducing the sounds of nature was translated, in his later life, into the creation of wondrously inventive “Free Music” machines. Mostly made from found materials, these machines take their place in a proud tradition of sound art, at a point where the aural and the visual intersect. Two minds converged on the creation of the machines: the one self-taught and intuitive, the other scientifically trained and rigorous. The exchange of letters between the two men charts their journey of discovery and the friendship that grew from it: a grand passionate human adventure.


Delius and His Music

Delius and His Music

Author: Martin Lee-Browne

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 1843839598

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"There are many biographies and articles about the life of Frederick Delius (1862-1934), but there has never been a comprehensive book about his music until now. He was an extraordinarily versatiles composer, equally at home with orchestral, instrumental, and chamber works as with choral works and songs; and Delius and his Music covers his entire output. Everything he published, from his earliest compositions and 'trifiles' to the mighty, ninety-minute A Mass of Life, is analysed here in nontechnical language. The history and background of each work and its critical reception are also examined, set within a biography, and against a backdrop of the English musical scene and some of its personalities during the seventy years of Delius's life. There are numerous musical examples and many quotations from contemporary newspapers and journals, as well as a complete list of Delius's works, with catalogue numbers, and a select bibliography. This book will appeal not only to students and Delian scholars, but also to everyone who already has an interest in Delius's unique music, or who would like to discover it for the first time"--Jaquette.


Grainger the Modernist

Grainger the Modernist

Author: Suzanne Robinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-09

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1317125010

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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, 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.


Frederick Delius

Frederick Delius

Author: Mary Christison Huismann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0415993644

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Delius is a 20th century English composer whose works are considered models of the British impressionist school.