The New Percy Grainger Companion - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843836017 ISBN 13: 9781843836018

Publisher: Boydell Press, 2010

Synopsis

In the thirty years since his Centenary in 1982 it has become even clearer that Percy Grainger [1882-1961] - composer, pianist and revolutionary - was a man born out of his time. Many of his ideas, both musical and social, sit far more easily in our contemporary world. Those thirty years have also seen a notable expansion of interest in Grainger's music. Innumerable recordings have been made, including the first complete Grainger recording survey by Chandos in its monumental Grainger Edition. The growth of the internet has made it possible, as never before, for Grainger's music to be heard widely.
The central theme of The New Percy Grainger Companion is to give information and help from established musicians for performing and listening to this life-celebrating repertoire. The Companion's fully detailed, up-to-date Catalogue of Works - the most complete of any existing catalogue - gives invaluable assistance. Authoritative contextual chapters in the Companion offer some surprising new background information, together with thoughtful evaluations which signal a new twenty-first century perspective in Grainger scholarship.

PENELOPE THWAITES, pianist, composer and broadcaster, has performed and researched Grainger's music for more than three decades and her recordings include an extensive Grainger discography.

Contributors: BRIAN ALLISON, TERESA BALOUGH, ROGER COVELL, KAY DREYFUS, LEWIS FOREMAN, PAUL JACKSON, JAMES JUDD, JAMES KOEHNE, ASTRID BRITT KRAUTSCHNEIDER, BARRY PETER OULD, STEWART MANVILLE, MURRAY MCLACHLAN, TIMOTHY REYNISH, BRUCE CLUNIES ROSS, DESMOND SCOTT, PETER SCULTHORPE, GEOFFREY SIMON, RONALD STEVENSON, STEPHEN VARCOE, DAVID WALKER

Table of Contents

Grainger Timeline and Introduction - Penelope Thwaites
Orchestral Music - James Judd and Geoffrey Simon and Penelope Thwaites
Music for Wind Band - Timothy Reynish
Grainger for Choirs - Paul Jackson
Singing Grainger Solo - Stephen Varcoe
At the Piano with Grainger - Penelope Thwaites
Towards a Universal Language; Early Music, World Music - Barry Peter Ould and Paul Jackson
Programming Grainger - James Koehne and Penelope Thwaites
Putting Grainger into Print - Barry Peter Ould
Grainger's Pianism on Disc - Murray McLachlan
Marvellous Melbourne 1880-1895 - David Walker
The Family Background - Penelope Thwaites
An Australian Composer? - Roger Covell
The Grainger Museum, Then, Now and in the Future - Brian Allison and Kay Dreyfus and Astrid Britt Krautschneider
The Pursuit of Nordic Music - Bruce Clunies Ross
At Home in New York - Stewart Manville
Grainger and his Contemporaries - Lewis Foreman
Reflection and Reminiscence - Cara Aldridge Ham and and Peter Sculthorpe and Ronald Stevenson and Alan Woolgar
The Spiritualising Influence of Music; Grainger's Philosophy of Life and Art - Teresa Balough
Appendices - Rita Boswell
Catalogue of Works

About this title

About the Author

PENELOPE THWAITES, pianist, composer and broadcaster, has performed and researched Grainger's music for more than three decades and her recordings include an extensive Grainger discography.

Edition details

• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843836017
• ISBN 13: 9781843836018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356
• Editor: Thwaites Penelope