The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961

Grainger, Percy

ISBN 10: 0198163770 / ISBN 13: 9780198163770

Published by Clarendon Press, 1994

About this Item

Selected from the 15,000 surviving Grainger letters, these 76 letters record Grainger's fascinating life as a musician and his frequently unconventional views on nationality, race, religion, sex, politics, language, and education, and - of course - music. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 pp illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; AVGC6; AVH; BGA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 641. . 1994. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198163770
• ISBN 13: 9780198163770
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Percy Grainger was one of the most colourful of this century's cultural figures. The All-Round Man depicts that scrambling diversity through seventy-six challenging letters from Grainger's "American" years, 1914-61. These letters are fascination to read: they are cultivated "rambles" (as Grainger actually called several of his compositions), not dissimilar to today's telephone conversations. Often written in Grainger's crunchy "Blue-eyed English", they explore uninhibitedly every corner of his public and private life. They reflect the magnificent attempts of a great but flawed mind to encompass the world.

About the Author

Malcolm Gillies has written widely on twentieth-century music, including many books on Béla Bartók, including Bartók in Britain: A Guided Tour (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989), Notation and Tonal Structure in Bartók's Later Works (New York: Garland, 1989), and Bartók Remembered (Faber and Faber, 1990, New York W.W. Norton's, 1991), and is editor of The Life and Music of Béla Bartók, by Halsey Stevens (Oxford: Clarendon, 1993), and The Bartók Companion (Faber and Faber, January 1994). He lives in Queensland, Australia. David Pear, a theologian and educator, worked as as Senior Research Assistant on the Grainger Letters project between 1990 and 1992, and also lives in Queensland, Australia.