Grainger the Modernist

Cover Art for 9781472420220, Grainger the Modernist by Suzanne Robinson, Kay Dreyfus
ISBN: 9781472420220
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 28 March, 2015
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Editions:
4 other editions of this product

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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