TY - BOOK AU - Robinson,Suzanne AU - Dreyfus,Kay TI - Grainger the modernist SN - 9781472420220 (hbk.) : U1 - 780.9'2 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Grainger, Percy, KW - Music KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 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 ER -