Farthest North of Humanness
Author: Percy Aldridge Grainger
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1985-06-18
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 1349076279
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Author: Percy Aldridge Grainger
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1985-06-18
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 1349076279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Percy Grainger
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 596
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 542
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Pear
Publisher: UoM Custom Book Centre
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1921775424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel M. Grimley
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781843832102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the role of landscape and cultural identity in the music of Edvard Grieg.
Author: Chris Walton
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 1580463002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlaces 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.
Author: Kay Dreyfus
Publisher: Lyrebird Press
Published: 2020-01-01
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0734037945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPercy 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.
Author: Martin Lee-Browne
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 1843839598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Author: Suzanne Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-09
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1317125010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnaccountably, 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.
Author: Mary Christison Huismann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 0415993644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelius is a 20th century English composer whose works are considered models of the British impressionist school.