Grainger on Music

ISBN-13: 9780198166658 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 416 str.

Percy Grainger; Malcolm Gillies; Bruce Clunies Ross

Opis

Prolific as a composer, performer, and recording artist, Percy Grainger was an indefatigable writer. This selection of forty-six essays about the production, promotion, and propagation of music is drawn from his over 150 public writings. Their topics range over his own and his friends' compositional plans, piano technique, Free Music', instrumental usage, and his ideas on artistic development in the United States, Australian, and his beloved Nordic lands.

Recenzje

driving, fresh imagination ... this book shows ... how he kept faith with the ideals of his boyhood ... There are bracing thoughts here, too, on the chorus as the centre of musical life, on the revival of old music and on music as democratic art.