Percy Grainger (1882-1961) - Klassiekemuziekgids.net klassiekemuziekgids.net. percy grainger Melbourne 1882 New York 1961Australisch-Amerikaans componist en pianist. grainger studeerde http://www.klassiekemuziekgids.net/componisten/grainger.htm
Extractions: Australisch-Amerikaans componist en pianist Grainger studeerde bij zijn moeder, een bekend pianopedagoge, en debuteerde op tienjarige leeftijd. Na concertreizen als wonderkind studeerde hij nog bij Kwast in Frankfurt en bij Busoni in Berlijn. Van 1900 tot 1914 verbleef hij in Londen. Bij zijn wereldreizen raakte hij gedurende de Eerste Wereldoorlog in Amerikaanse dienst en sindsdien was hij Amerikaans staatsburger. Hij is vooral belangrijk als componist van op het Amerikaanse leven en de Amerikaanse kunst (literatuur, folklore, enz.) geïnspireerde muziek. Daarnaast legde hij verza- melingen Engelse, Ierse en IJslandse volksmuziek aan. Ten slotte hield hij zich bezig met 'tree music', waarin microtonen (kwarttonen, achtste tonen) centraal staan en waarin het ritme geheel wordt vrijgelaten. Daartoe stelde hij verschil- lende muziekmachines samen (halfmechanische voorlopers van synthesizers).
The Free Music Machines Of Percy Grainger - Linz Rainer Linz. percy Aldridge grainger, composer and pianist, was bornin Brighton Australia in 1882 and died in White Plains NY in 1961. http://www.rainerlinz.net/NMA/articles/FreeMusic.html
Extractions: Percy Aldridge Grainger, composer and pianist, was born in Brighton Australia in 1882 and died in White Plains NY in 1961. A highly eccentric individual with a broad range of musical and other interests, he is remembered on three continents for various aspects of his musical achievements. In Europe he is best remembered for his popular arrangements of English folk tunes such as the 'evergreen' Country Gardens . In America many people will know him as a composer and arranger of brass band music. In Australia he is remembered chiefly for his musical innovations and for what he called 'Free Music'. Despite his populist activities, Grainger was a forward thinking musician who anticipated many innovations in twentieth century music well before they became established in the work of other composers. In his early career, like Bartok, he was an active collector and documenter of folk songs, including those of the South Pacific region. As early as 1899 he was working with so-called "beatless music", using metric successions (including such sequences as 2/4, 2½/4, 3/4, 2 ½ /4, 3/8 etc) inspired by the irregular rhythmic patterns of speech. His use of chance procedures in Random Round of 1912 predates John Cage(!), and he composed "unplayable" music onto player piano rolls while Conlon Nancarrow was still a child.
Classical Net Review - Percy Grainger of grainger s parents, odd themselves (although percy had little grainger, his geniusaside, was also more than A brilliant concert pianist, he hated the piano http://www.classical.net/music/books/reviews/0198166524a.html
Extractions: ISBN 0198166524 On the dust-jacket cover of this excellent book, the composer Percy Aldridge Grainger looks out like a child with a naughty secret he hopes you share, so intently that the air between you and the portrait seems to vibrate. Few composers lead outward lives especially interesting. Most don't go exploring in remote corners of the world, break up spy rings, or achieve worldly power. Whatever interest we have in them usually centers on their inner lives. Although Grainger's "inner weather" seemed to mix a boy's playroom with the Hellfire Club, his outward eccentricities and his adventures as concert pianist and brilliant inventor mark him as one of the few exceptions to the general rule. I would say by almost any measure, Grainger was a genius, or at least a polymath. With only three months of formal schooling, he managed to master composition, the piano, electronics, and several languages. Many of his friends remarked that whatever the topic of conversation, Grainger could talk not only knowledgeably, but brilliantly. Yet, to his death, he remained intellectually a precocious adolescent. He believed the most incredible nonsense: that the greatest composers all had blue eyes (he photographed Vaughan Williams's eyes not once, but twice), that there really was a white man's burden, Nordic folk were God's chosen, Jews couldn't be trusted, among other things. He transferred his prostate-cancer operation from the Mayo Clinic to Denmark because he didn't want to risk drawing a Jewish doctor. On the other hand, he was not actively vicious in this regard. He admired Gershwin's music tremendously, going so far as to arrange songs and parts of
Percy Grainger percy grainger. percy grainger (8 July 1882 20 February, 1961) was an Australianborn pianist, composer, and champion of the saxophone. percy grainger, 1915. http://www.fact-index.com/p/pe/percy_grainger.html
Extractions: Percy Grainger, 1915 He was born in Brighton, Victoria. From to Grainger lived in London where he befriended and was influenced by Edvard Grieg. Percy Grainger moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in In collaboration with Burnett Cross, Grainger invented the "Free Music Machine", an ancestor of the electric synthesizer Percy Grainger died in New York City and was buried in Adelaide, South Australia The Percy Grainger Society Grainger on Australian Music Centre site
Percy Aldridge Grainger Penguin Dictionary of Music, percy Aldridge grainger was an Australianborn composerand pianist; lived 1900-15 in London and thereafter in USA (naturalised). http://www.grainger.de/music/composers/grainger.html
Extractions: Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music , Percy Aldridge Grainger was an Australian-born composer and pianist; lived 1900-15 in London and thereafter in USA (naturalised). Pupil in Germany of Busoni; friend of Edvard Hagerup Grieg . Collected and edited English folk music and based some compositions on it. Also wrote choral works, many short orchestral pieces (e.g. "Country Gardens", "Handel in the Strand"); usually published his work in several different (and often unconventional) instrumental versions. Used deliberately anglicised vocabulary, e.g. "louden" (crescendo), "middle-fiddle" (viola), "bass fiddle" - to mean cello, not double-bass, which term he retained.
Percy Grainger masterly tells us about the live, thoughts and adventures of one of the strangestmusic makers of all times, composer and pianist percy Aldridge grainger. http://www.grainger.de/dbe/sbs/grainger002.html
Extractions: The revised edition of THE Grainger biography by John Bird. In this biography, John Bird masterly tells us about the live, thoughts and "adventures" of one of the strangest music makers of all times, composer and pianist Percy Aldridge Grainger. A very complete book, which is special, for, as the author stresses in his preface, making an understandable view of the complicated life of Grainger, is not a simple task. Besides all important facts about "Perks", the book contains lots of interesting background information, letting us know under which circumstances and in what time the composer lived. Also an updated discography and a list of all places where manuscripts etc. are to be found are included. The current edition is fully revised, the first print was released in the mid seventies. In one word: brilliant!!!
Extractions: Percy Grainger's reputation and musical stock has greatly risen in the past decade or so. His music definitely speaks louder and more joyously than it ever has. Its bracing good will and generally folk-like character gives it its multi-cultural flavour. Percy wanted to bring "all the world's music to all the world." He grew up in a colonial British Australia, in a young country that heralded democratic ideals which stayed with him forever. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Percy was young, handsome, energetic, and a pianistic wizard. He was also a part of the vigorous folk-song collecting taking place in many countries. The fear that industrialisation would forever destroy the great repository of folk song was a real concern with such men as Cecil Sharp, Vaughan Williams, Bartók, Kodály, Pedrell, and many others. Grainger loved with an exuberant passion folk music of every context and was convinced that European civilisation had become artistically too rarefied, having lost its earthiness and animal vitality. He had come to dislike the intellectuality of the sonata form and often actively denounced the Viennese classical school, having a temperamental antipathy towards Beethoven himself. Throughout his career, he was associated with Grieg's music, especially the piano concerto. Grieg's death prevented a tour together where Grainger would have been soloist in the concerto. Grainger's interesting edition of the concerto with many fine points confirmed by the composer should be consulted by any pianist studying the composition.
Extractions: DDD "What we do hear is detailed, very well recorded on a modern concert grand, and stylistically fascinating. It shows Grainger to have been a highly unorthodox pianist - wild and renegade in his attitudes to conventional keyboard decorum, chopping and lurching his way with spontaneity from phrase to phrase, and priapically rhythmic in almost everything he played. The results are invigorating ... These unique Nimbus reconstructions of the Grainger sound make most other performances of his music I have heard sound misguidedly conventional and tame. Controversial the piano rolls themselves may be: to my ears the sound that they produce is very much that of the real beast." Terry Blain, Classic CD
Anecdote - Percy Aldridge Grainger - 4:58 458 The Australian pianist percy grainger once performed for a women sclub matinee audience on Long Island. A friend, having gone http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=3296
Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Percy Grainger percy Aldridge grainger (July 8th, 1882 1961) Australia - USA Composer andpianist. Born in Melbourne, grainger was a gay composer and pianist. http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biog2/grai1.html
Extractions: Composer and pianist Born in Melbourne, Grainger was a gay composer and pianist. He was dazzlingly good-looking; both Edvard Grieg and gay American poet Vachel Lindsay lost their hearts to the young man. He is remembered for a number of songs and short instrumental pieces drawing on folk idioms, particularly Country Gardens (1925). He died at White Plains, New York. He studied in Frankfurt before beginning a successful career as a concert pianist in England at the turn of the century. His first compositions were experimental in nature, culminating with Hill Song I in 1902. He subsequently modified his style in the popular British Folk-Music Settings and the Room-Music Tit- Bits In 1914 he sailed for America and took up residence, becoming an American citizen after a period in the US army. He toured North America, Europe, South Africa and Australia on several occasions, setting up the Grainger Museum in the grounds of Melbourne University during visits to Australia in the 1930's. He had a musical mind of unusual breadth and vision, with interests spanning the ages from Mediaeval music to the latest twentieth century developments. With Dom Anselm Hughes and Arnold Dolmetsch he made modern transcriptions of early music; in later life he devoted his energies to the design and construction of Free Music machines on which a composer could write his music as graphs on transparent sheets to be performed by the machine free of restrictions on rhythm and pitch.
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Extractions: Language : Finding aid written in English . The Lincolnshire Folk Archive was established in the early 1960s at Pilgrim College, Boston to preserve folk songs from Lincolnshire and South Humberside. The archive preserved and built upon the early recording activities of Percy Grainger (1882-1961). Patrick O'Shaughnessy of Pilgrim College, who edited and wrote about Lincolnshire folksong, was central to the collection's development and publicity. The archive contains no material dated post-1991. It was transferred to The University of Nottingham's Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections in 1993. Pilgrim College, Fydell House, Boston was founded in 1945 and for many years has been part of The University of Nottingham's School of Continuing Education. It is supported by Boston Borough Council, Boston Preservation Trust, Lincolnshire County Council and the East Midlands District of the Workers' Educational Association. It provides open studies, certificate, part-time degree, and postgraduate courses as well as a variety of societies and clubs.
Percy Grainger percy grainger. Born in 1882, the son of a architect in Brighton, Victoria, Australia,percy Granger was a precocious pianist, and the proceeds of a series of http://www.truscottst-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/rhys/PercyGrainger.htm
Extractions: Percy Grainger Born in 1882, the son of a architect in Brighton, Victoria, Australia, Percy Granger was a precocious pianist, and the proceeds of a series of concerts, given at the age of twelve, enabled him to go to Frankfurt for six years, after which he began his European career at as a concert pianist, settling in London in 1901. He came to the U.S. in 1915 and enlisted as an army batsmen at the outbreak of World War 1. He became an American citizen in 1919. It was during his stay in England that he became passionately involved in collecting and arranging folk songs and country-dances. It had been related, Percy never had the slightest hesitation in pumping anybody that he came across. He would go up to the man and ask him if he knew any song sand as often not the man would stand there for a minute or two he and sing him a song in the most natural way in the world. Percy Grainger was a picturesque nationalist who tried to retain something of the original flavour of British folk songs and their singers by strict observance of peculiarities of performance such as varying beat length sand the use of primitive techniques such as parallelism. Here are some tunes that he made and a bit about them.
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Extractions: The Irish Tune is based on a tune collected by a Miss J. Ross of New Town, Limavaday, County Derry, Ireland, and published in "The Petri Collection of Ancient Music of Ireland" in 1885. Grainger's setting was written in 1909 and was dedicated to the memory of Edward Grieg, with whom Grainger developed a strong friendship. The "perfect" melody and the rich sonorities of the arrangement have kept the Irish Tune in a favored position for decades. Lincolnshire Posy
Extractions: percy grainger G rainger was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1882 and died in White Plains, New York in 1961. Although he had a huge reputation in his lifetime as a virtuoso pianist and composer of easy listening pieces such as Country Gardens and Molly on the Shore, amongst contemporary music fans, he is often hailed as innovator and wayward genius. He predicted and experimented with many 20th century music concepts before they became known and credited through the work of other composers. For example, Grainger's The Warriors written in 1913 seems to predict Charles Ives with its use of offstage brass band, rhythmic complexities, masses of tuned percussion, use of two conductors and outbursts of spiky dissonance in basically a tonal piece. Random Round , from 1912, anticipates the indeterminate aleatory music of John Cage and Stockhausen (in the piece, musicians are free to start playing when ever they like...not much of a new idea for improvising musicians but for the composed music of the time, quite radical!) T hroughout Grainger's whole career, he was busy trying to realise the concept of Free Music; a music free from the tonal or atonal structures of western music. Towards the end of his life, he built (with Burnet Cross) a number of Free Music machines out of industrial waste and junk capable of 'non-harmony' and 'gliding tones'. His first experiments with Beatless Music were started as early as 1899 with his piece
The Jon Rose Web - PERKS - An Interactive Badminton Game The role of percy grainger is taken by a are the extra Badminton players and grainger sFree Music recently discovered (?) letters by the composer and pianist. http://www.jonroseweb.com/f_projects_perks.html
Extractions: S pace is not the final frontier, nor is it cyber-space... it's the brain, or at least, our understanding of how it actually works. Jon Rose presents a simple analogy, the Badminton court represents the brain, the two Badminton players play out the roles of the left and right hemispheres. The brain belongs to one time Australian musical genius and deviant, Percy Grainger Elise Lorraine ). They react to each other (as sports people do!) with personal comments, spurious philosophical assertions, occasional abuse, and observations on the evolutionary struggle. O n each of the rackets and the net are mounted contact microphones and accelerometers, these access musical material. The movements of the rackets then further control tempo, rhythm, panning, volume, etc. The information from each racket confronts, complements or cuts off the material generated by the previous racket stroke. T he role of Percy Grainger is taken by a midi controlled player-piano. There are parts for Hurdy-Gurdy ( Stevie Wishart ) and other improvising guest musicians (in the CD version Phil Minton Butch Morris are the extra Badminton players and Grainger's Free Music machines are realized by Rainer Linz ). Texts and video images are derived from recently discovered (?) letters by the composer and pianist.
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Extractions: Composer, pianist; born in Melbourne, Australia. A child prodigy on piano, he studied in Australia and Germany; after 1900 he was a famed traveling virtuoso based in London. Making a sensational American debut in 1915 with his "signature" work, the piano concerto by his friend Edvard Grieg, he remained in the U.S.A. for most of the rest of his life. Most of his compositions are marked by his interest in traditional folk music, yet he had an experimental streak and was among the first to compose for electronic instruments.
Australian Musicians ~ AMUSIClassical Directory grainger, percy (Melbourne, 8 JUL 1882 White Plains, NY, 20 FEB 1961)Am Helfgott,David ( - ) pianist; Henderson, Moya (b. 1947); Hill, Alfred (Melbourne, 16 http://members.tripod.com/~musiclassical/aussie.html
