Grainger the modernist / edited by Suzanne Robinson and Kay Dreyfus.
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TextPublisher: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2015Description: 275 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472420220 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation | Music | MusicDDC classification: 780.9'2 Summary: Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals him 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 machines intended to supersede human application.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals him 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 machines intended to supersede human application.
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