Percy Grainger / John Bird
- Bib ID:
- 1196509
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bird, John
- Edition:
- New ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
- x, 379 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.
- ISBN:
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- 0198166524 (acid-free paper) (hardback) (hardbackUSA1999)
- 0868195707 (paperback Aust.1998)
- Full contents:
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- Prefatory Note / Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
- Appreciation / Leopold Stokowski
- 1. 'Bubbles'
- 2. Doctors and Dustbin Lids
- 3. 'Perks' Joins the Frankfurt Gang
- 4. Saint and Sinner
- 5. Grettir the Strong Flexes his Muscles
- 6. 'The years before the war were Hell'
- 7. The Twisted Genius and the Dinkum Aussie
- 8. Packed Houses and Zulu Warriors
- 9. 'I am an Australian, not a Corsican!'
- 10. Unto Brigg Fair
- 11. The Little Half-Viking
- 12. 'Poor put-upon Percy'
- 13. 'Adieu Old World! I would hail a New World'
- 14. 'Your mad side has ruined us'
- 15. Beatless Music, Blue-Eyed English and a Nordic Princess
- 16. 'The measure of my artistic defeat'
- 17. 'I shall go back to the joys of my teen-years'
- 18. 'Your loving but defeated, Percy'
- App. A. Catalogue of Grainger's Published Original Compositions and Arrangements
- App. B. Grainger's Statement on 'Free Music'.
- App. C. Grainger's 'Note to Conductors...' from Preface to Spoon River, American Folk-Music Setting No. 2
- App. D. Discography: Performances by Grainger
- App. E. Catalogue of Duo-Art Piano Rolls Made by Grainger
- App. F. Select Discography: Performances of Grainger's Works by Others.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, discographies, and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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