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ISBN 10: 1472420241
ISBN 13: 9781472420244 
Author: Suzanne Robinson, Kay Dreyfus

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. By reappraising Grainger’s social and historical connectedness and exploring the variety of aspects of modernity seen in his activities, the authors create a profile of a composer whose modernist aesthetic paralleled that of the most advanced composers of his day.

Grainger the Modernist 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction

2 ‘The Beauty of Bravery’: Alternative Modernisms, De-Historicizing Grainger

3 Grainger and the Performativity of Folk Song

4 A ‘Treat Equal to Wagner’: Grainger’s Interactions with the Music and Culture of Polynesia

5 ‘A Natural Innovationist’: Percy Grainger’s Early British Folk Song Settings

6 Giving Voice to ‘the Painfulness of Human Life’: Grainger’s Folk Song Settings and Musical Irony

7 Grainger and the ‘New Iconoclasts’: Forays into Modernist French Music

8 The Hispanic Grainger: Encounters with the Modern Spanish School

9 Minstrelsy, Ragtime, ‘Improvisatory Music’ and Percy Grainger’s ‘Unwritten Music’

10 When Grainger Was Ultra-Modernist: A Study of the American Reception of In a Nutshell (1916)

11 ‘Serious Music’: The Brisbane Reception of Grainger’s Historical Chamber Music Recitals (1934)

12 Percy Grainger, Henry Cowell and the Origins of the World Music Survey Course

13 Grainger as Educator: On the First Performance of The Immovable Do for Wind Band

14 Percy Grainger: A Pioneer of Electronic Music

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