Percy Grainger /
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| Author / Creator: | Mellers, Wilfrid, 1914-2008 |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992. |
| Description: | ix, 166 p. : ill., music ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford studies of composers |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1556629 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Musical Examples
- Prelude: The Importance of being Percy
- 1. Percy Puck and Peter Pan: 'rippingly boyish'
- 2. Percy's Paradox: The Lonely Desert Man and the Hills Themselves
- 3. Dancing with the Happy Tribes: Grainger and the Human Body
- 4. Singing with the Happy Tribes: Grainger and the Human Voice
- 5. Grainger's Guising: Music as Ritual Action and Magic Spell
- 6. Old Worlds for New: Rambling and Meandering through Four Mini-Masterpieces
- 7. Presenting the Past: The Transcriptions and Concert-Paraphrases
- 8. 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.