Grainger the modernist /
AL GRAINGER
Robinson, Suzanne
Grainger the modernist / edited by Suzanne Robinson and Kay Dreyfus. - Farnham, Surrey Ashgate, 2015. - 270 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'The beauty of bravery': alternative modernisms, de-historicizing Grainger / Sarah Collins and Simon Perry -- Grainger and the performativity of folk song / Graham Freeman -- A 'treat equal to Wagner': Grainger's interactions with the music and culture of Polynesia / Graham Barwell -- 'A natural innovationist': Percy Grainger's early British folk song settings / Dorothy de Val -- Giving voice to 'the painfulness of human life': Grainger's folk song settings and musical irony / Peter Tregear -- Grainger and the 'new iconoclasts': forays into modernist French music / Emily Kilpatrick -- The Hispanic Grainger: encounters with the modern Spanish school / Michael Christoforidis and Ken Murray -- Minstrelsy, ragtime, 'improvisatory music' and Percy Grainger's 'unwritten music' / John Whiteoak -- When Grainger was ultra-modernist: a study of the American reception of In a nutshell (1916) / Suzanne Robinson -- 'Serious music': The Brisbane reception of Grainger's historical chamber music recitals (1934) / Samantha Owens -- Percy Grainger, Henry Cowell and the origins of the world music survey course / Peter Schimpf -- Grainger as educator: on the first performance of The immovable do for wind band / Phillip Allen Correll -- Percy Grainger: a pioneer of electronic music / Andrew Hugill.
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