Title: Grainger on music /
Authors: Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961; Gillies, Malcolm.; Clunies Ross, Bruce.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Music History and criticism
Abstract: "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. Written between the turn of the century and the early 1950s, these essays reveal Grainger's youthful compositional plans, his ideas about piano technique, and his enduring high regard for the music of Edvard Grieg, Frederick Delius, and 'Frankfurt Group' colleagues Cyril Scott, Roger Quilter, and Henry Balfour Gardiner. Grainger on Music also pursues his evolving thoughts about Nordic music, 'Free Music', instrumental usage, and his occasional suggestions for musical development in Australia and the United States."--Jacket.
Contents: A recognition -- Theme as related to form in music -- My musical outlook -- Beatless-notation machine -- The music of Cyril Scott -- The impress of personality in unwritten music -- Modernism in pianoforte study -- A blossom time in pianoforte literature -- Modern and universal impulses in music -- The world music of to-morrow -- Richard Strauss: seer and idealist -- The unique value of Natalie Curtis' notations of American Negro folksongs -- Possibilities of the concert wind band from the standpoint of a modern composer -- Let us sit in wait no longer for the advent of great American composers--they are with us already -- The influence of Anglo-Saxon folk music -- The value of Icelandic to an Anglo-Saxon -- Nordic characteristics in music.