Grainger the Modernist
Suzanne Robinson, Kay Dreyfus
ISBN: | 9781472420220 |
Publisher: | Ashgate |
Published: | 28 March, 2015 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
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Grainger the Modernist
Suzanne Robinson, Kay Dreyfus
Unaccountably, Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of both American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals the well-known composer of popular gems 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 electronic machines intended to supersede human application. Grainger was
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