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020 a| 0198162693 (cloth) :c| £25.00;

020 a| 0198162707 (paper) :c| £10.95;

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050 00 a| ML410.G75b| M4 1992;

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100 1 a| Mellers, Wilfrid,d| 1914-2008.=| ^A546734;

245 10 a| Percy Grainger /c| Wilfrid Mellers.;

260 a| Oxford ;a| New York :b| Oxford University Press,c| 1992.;

300 a| ix, 166 pages :b| music ;c| 23 cm.;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Oxford studies of composers,;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 00 t| Prelude: The Importance of being Percy --g| 1t| Percy Puck and Peter Pan: 'rippingly boyish' --t| Percy's Paradox: The Lonely Desert Man and the Hills Themselves --t| Dancing with the Happy Tribes: Grainger and the Human Body --t| Singing with the Happy Tribes: Grainger and the Human Voice --t| Grainger's Guising: Music as Ritual Action and Magic Spell --t| Old Worlds for New: Rambling and Meandering through Four Mini-Masterpieces --t| Presenting the Past: The Transcriptions and Concert-Paraphrases --t| A 'Gifted Child' looks Back to the Future: Grainger as Innovator and Educator --t| Postlude: Grainger as Green Man --g| Appendix I.t| Grainger as Guiser: An Anthropological Note --g| Appendix II.t| Percy Grainger, William Barnes, and Blue-Eyed English.;

520 a| A man of extraordinary charisma, Percy Grainger was at once a legendary virtuoso pianist, a composer of highly original music, an arranger, and a "disher up" of folk music who pierced to the music's heart, and figure of some historical significance in relation to ethnomusicology and musiceducation. A study of the music of this paradoxical figure, this book looks at the musical influence on his compositions of folk-song and of Grieg, and of those apparent polar opposites, Delius and Bach. It examines some of his more significant pieces in detail; considers his work in recreatingtraditional material and the music of others; sees him as a champion and transcriber of what is now known as Early Music; and looks at his sometimes alarmingly eccentric notions as to music's nature and purpose. Overriding barriers between art, folk, and pop music, Grainger is difficult tocategorize, and is, in the history of music, unique.;

600 10 a| Grainger, Percy,d| 1882-1961.=| ^A80182;

650 0 a| Composersz| Australiav| Biography.=| ^A15202;

830 0 a| Oxford studies of composers.=| ^A639033;

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Percy Grainger / Wilfrid Mellers.

Author/creator	Mellers, Wilfrid
Format	Book
Publication Info	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Description	ix, 166 pages : music ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961. Composers--Australia. --Biography.

Series	Oxford studies of composers, Oxford studies of composers. ^A639033
Contents	Prelude: The Importance of being Percy -- 1 Percy Puck and Peter Pan: 'rippingly boyish' -- Percy's Paradox: The Lonely Desert Man and the Hills Themselves -- Dancing with the Happy Tribes: Grainger and the Human Body -- Singing with the Happy Tribes: Grainger and the Human Voice -- Grainger's Guising: Music as Ritual Action and Magic Spell -- Old Worlds for New: Rambling and Meandering through Four Mini-Masterpieces -- Presenting the Past: The Transcriptions and Concert-Paraphrases -- A 'Gifted Child' looks Back to the Future: Grainger as Innovator and Educator -- Postlude: Grainger as Green Man -- Appendix I. Grainger as Guiser: An Anthropological Note -- Appendix II. Percy Grainger, William Barnes, and Blue-Eyed English.
Abstract	A man of extraordinary charisma, Percy Grainger was at once a legendary virtuoso pianist, a composer of highly original music, an arranger, and a "disher up" of folk music who pierced to the music's heart, and figure of some historical significance in relation to ethnomusicology and musiceducation. A study of the music of this paradoxical figure, this book looks at the musical influence on his compositions of folk-song and of Grieg, and of those apparent polar opposites, Delius and Bach. It examines some of his more significant pieces in detail; considers his work in recreatingtraditional material and the music of others; sees him as a champion and transcriber of what is now known as Early Music; and looks at his sometimes alarmingly eccentric notions as to music's nature and purpose. Overriding barriers between art, folk, and pop music, Grainger is difficult tocategorize, and is, in the history of music, unique.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	92000152
ISBN	0198162693 (cloth) :
ISBN	0198162707 (paper) :

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