Percy Grainger.

Grainger Museum. University of Melbourne Parkville Campus.

Percy Aldridge Grainger (8 July 1882–20 February 1961) was an Australian-born pianist, composer, and champion of the saxophone and the concert band. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 443 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,494 × 2,020 pixels, file size: 187 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Date Unknown Author Bain News Service, publisher Permission (Reusing this image) Other versions Uncropped version Uncompressed TIFF of full version available at http... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 443 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,494 × 2,020 pixels, file size: 187 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Date Unknown Author Bain News Service, publisher Permission (Reusing this image) Other versions Uncropped version Uncompressed TIFF of full version available at http... Image File history File linksMetadata Grainger_museum_university_of_melbourne. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Grainger_museum_university_of_melbourne. ... is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family. ... A concert band, also called wind band, symphonic band, symphonic winds, wind orchestra, wind symphony, or wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of several members of the woodwind instrument family, brass instrument family and percussion instrument family. ...

Early life and career

Grainger was born in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. His father was a successful architect who emigrated from London, England, and his mother, Rose, was the daughter of hoteliers from Adelaide, South Australia, also of English immigrant stock. His father was an alcoholic. When Grainger was age 11, his parents separated after his mother contracted syphilis from his father, who then returned to London. Brighton is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km southeast of the city. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... VIC redirects here. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Adelaide (disambiguation). ... Capital Adelaide Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Marjorie Jackson-Nelson Premier Mike Rann (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 11  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $59,819 (5th)  - Product per capita  $38,838/person (7th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  1,558,200 (5th)  - Density  1. ... Syphilis is a curable sexually transmitted disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete. ...

The Grainger family once lived at 36 Oxley Road, Hawthorn, Victoria. Grainger's mother was domineering and possessive, although cultured. While pregnant, she allocated time each day to stare at a statue of a Greek god in the belief it would pass some of its qualities to her child. Percy became a striking individual with blue eyes and brilliant orange hair who gave his first public performance at the age of 12, and critics hailed him as a new prodigy. Due to taunts about his appearance Grainger spent less than three months in school and after refusing to return was home schooled by his mother. A strict disciplinarian, Rose used a whip as punishment which may have contributed to his later sado masochistic sexuality. Grainger excelled in languages and his correspondence shows he was fluent in 11 foreign languages including Icelandic and Russian.^[1] Hawthorn is a residential suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. ... Look up prodigy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Flogging demonstration at Folsom Street Fair 2004. ...

His mother took him to Europe in 1895 to study at Dr. Hoch's conservatory in Frankfurt. There he displayed his talents as a musical experimenter, using irregular and unusual meters. He belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s. Fellow-students included Cyril Scott, Henry Balfour Gardiner, Norman O'Neill and Roger Quilter. Grainger himself did not believe in such a concept as musical talent and attributed his career to his mother's influence. During his time in Frankfurt, he lost the tip of an index finger while working on a bicycle chain. Although Grainger himself hoped he would have to give up concerts and be able to concentrate on composing, his performance ability was not affected by this handicap. For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Year 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium - Musikakademie in Frankfurt am Main was founded September 22, 1878. ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... Frankfurt Group A group of English speaking composers and friends who all studied at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main in the late 1890s. ... Cyril Scott (1879–1970) was an English romanticist composer with some impressionist qualities. ... Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950) was an English musician, composer and teacher. ... Norman ONeill (1875-1934) was an Irish[1] and British composer and conductor who specialized largely in works for the theatre. ... Roger Quilter (1877–1953) was an English composer. ...

Grainger was an innovative musician who anticipated many forms of twentieth century music well before they became established by other composers. As early as 1899 he was working with "beatless music", using metric successions (including such sequences as 2/4, 2½/4, 3/4, 2 ½ /4). His use of chance music in 1912 predated by forty years John Cage and Grainger composed "unplayable" music for player piano rolls twenty years before it was “invented” by Conlon Nancarrow. Aleatoric music (also aleatory music or chance music; from the Latin word alea, meaning dice) is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance or some primary element of a composed works realization is left to the determination of its performer(s). ... For the Mortal Kombat character, see Johnny Cage. ... The player piano is a type of piano that plays music without the need for a human pianist to depress the normal keys or pedals. ... Conlon Nancarrow (October 27, 1912 - August 10, 1997) was an American composer who took Mexican citizenship in 1955. ...

From 1901 to 1914, Grainger lived in London, where he befriended and was influenced by composer Edvard Grieg. Grieg had a longstanding interest in the folk songs of his native Norway, and Grainger developed a particular interest in the folk songs of rural England. In 1906, Grainger hiked around Britain making field recordings of these folk songs on Edison wax cylinders, the first to make such recordings. During this period, Grainger also wrote and performed piano compositions that presaged the forthcoming popularization of the tone cluster by Leo Ornstein and Henry Cowell. Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Edvard Grieg Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist who composed in the romantic period. ... Folk song redirects here. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A short grand piano, with the lid up. ... Example of piano tone clusters. ... Leo Ornstein (c. ... Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, musical theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. ...

Grainger's energy was legendary. In London, he was known as "the jogging pianist" for his habit of racing through the streets to a concert, where he would bound on stage at the last minute because he preferred to be in a state of utter exhaustion when playing. After finishing a concert while touring in South Africa, he then walked 105 km to the next, arriving just in time to perform. When travelling by ship on tour, he spent his free time shoveling coal in the boiler room.

In 1910 Grainger began designing and making his own clothing, ranging from jackets, to shorts, togas, muumuus and leggings, all made from towels and also intricate grass and beaded skirts. The clothing was not just for private use but were often worn in public by Grainger. He also designed a crude forerunner of the modern sports bra for his Danish sweetheart. Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Roman clad in toga The toga was a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome. ... The muumuu (more often spelled as muumuu, muu-muu or mumu) is a loose dress of Hawaiian origin that hangs from the shoulder. ... Girl wearing modern leggings Leggings are any of several sorts of fitted clothing to cover the legs. ... Sports bra is a bra that provides firm support for the breasts. ...

Grainger moved to the United States at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. His 1916 piano composition In a Nutshell is the first by a classical music professional in the Western tradition to require direct, non-keyed sounding of the strings—in this case, with a mallet—which would come to be known as a "string piano" technique. When the United States entered the war in 1917, he enlisted into a United States Army band playing the oboe and soprano saxophone, and spent the duration of the war giving dozens of concerts in aid of War Bonds and Liberty Loans. Also during the year 1917, he was elected an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity. In 1918, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. “The Great War ” redirects here. ... String piano is a term coined by American composer-theorist Henry Cowell to collectively describe those pianistic techniques in which sound is produced by direct manipulation of the strings, rather than by striking of the pianos keys. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... The United States Army is the largest and oldest branch of the armed forces of the United States. ... Categories: Stub ... Liberty Bonds were used by the United States Government during World War I. Money raised from the bond sales was used to finance the war effort. ... Phi Mu Alpha (ΦΜΑ) Sinfonia is a collegiate social fraternity for men of musicianly character. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...

Career success

Grainger's piano solo Country Gardens became a smash hit, securing his reputation, although Grainger grew to detest the piece. With his newfound wealth, Grainger and his mother settled in the suburb of White Plains, New York after the war. Rose Grainger's mental and physical health, however, was in decline. She committed suicide in 1922 by jumping from the building where her son's manager, Antonia Sawyer, had an office.^[2] This ended an intimate relationship, which many had incorrectly assumed to be incestuous. After his mother's death, he found a letter that she had written to him the day before she took her life, eplaining her state of mind, which she explained was caused by accusations of incest. Grainger kept it in a cylinder he wore around his neck for many years. He later compiled an album containing photos of his mother (including several of her in her coffin), and had thousands of copies made and distributed to friends. A short grand piano, with the lid up. ... For other places with the same name, see White Plains (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Suicide (disambiguation). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In the same year, he traveled to Denmark, his first folk-music collecting trip to Scandinavia (although he had visited Grieg there in 1906). The orchestration of the region's music would shape much of his finest output. For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation). ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

By 1925 Grainger was financially secure. He was now earning $5,000 a week for performances and charging up to $200 an hour for private lessons. In November 1926, Grainger met the Swedish artist and poet Ella Viola Ström, and fell in love at first sight. Their wedding took place on 9 August 1928 on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl, following a concert before an audience of 20,000, with an orchestra of 126 musicians and an a cappella choir, which sang his new composition, To a Nordic Princess, dedicated to Ella. Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 221st day of the year (222nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hollywood Bowl in 2005. ... This article is about the vocal technique. ...

In December 1929, Grainger developed a style of orchestration that he called "Elastic Scoring". He outlined this concept in an essay that he called, "To Conductors, and those forming, or in charge of, Amateur Orchestras, High School, College and Music School Orchestras and Chamber-Music Bodies". Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Elastic Scoring is a style of orchestration or music arrangement that was first used by the Australian composer, Percy Grainger. ...

In 1932, he became Dean of Music at New York University, and underscored his reputation as an experimenter by putting jazz on the syllabus and inviting Duke Ellington as a guest lecturer. Twice he was offered honorary doctorates of music, but turned them down, explaining, "I feel that my music must be regarded as a product of non education". Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... This article is about the American Jazz composer and performer. ...

Declining career

In 1940, the Graingers moved to Springfield, Missouri, from which base Grainger again toured to give a series of army concerts during the Second World War. However, the gradual decline in popularity of his music after the war hit his spirits hard. To get his music heard, he offered to play for little or no fee, which resulted in his income from concerts drying up. He last appeared in public at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1960. Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hammons Tower in downtown Springfield Springfield is the third largest city in Missouri. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Dartmouth College is a private, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Incorporated as Trustees of Dartmouth College,[6][7] it is a member of the Ivy League and one of the nine colonial colleges founded before the American Revolution. ... Hanover is a town located on the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In his last years, working in collaboration with physicist Burnett Cross, Grainger invented the "Free Music Machine", which was the forerunner of the electric synthesizer. For other uses, see Synthesizer (disambiguation). ...

Although still physically fit into his 60s, he spent his last years suffering pain from abdominal cancer which had spread, despite a number of operations, from prostate cancer diagnosed in 1953.^[3] Grainger died in White Plains, New York in 1961 and he was buried in West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia. His personal files and records have been preserved at The Grainger Museum in the grounds of the University of Melbourne, the design and construction of which he oversaw. Many of his instruments and scores are located at the Grainger house in White Plains, New York, now the headquarters of the International Percy Grainger Society. Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ... The prostate is a compound tubuloalveolar exocrine gland of the male mammalian reproductive system. ... For other places with the same name, see White Plains (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Adelaide (disambiguation). ... Capital Adelaide Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Marjorie Jackson-Nelson Premier Mike Rann (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 11  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $59,819 (5th)  - Product per capita  $38,838/person (7th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  1,558,200 (5th)  - Density  1. ... The University of Melbourne, is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. ...

Free Music and Grainger’s machines

In Australia Grainger is remembered chiefly for his musical innovations and for what he called “Free Music”. He first conceived his idea of Free Music as a boy of 11 or 12. It was suggested to him by observing the waves on Albert Park Lake in Melbourne. Eventually he concluded that the future of music lay in freeing up rhythmic procedures and in the subtle variation of pitch, producing glissando like movement. These ideas were to remain with him throughout his life, and he spent a great deal of his time in later years developing machines to realise his conception Albert Park and Albert Park Lake are situated in the City of Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia, three km south of the Melbourne CBD. It encompasses 2. ... Glissando (plural: glissandi) is a musical term that refers to either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another (a true glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another (an effective glissando). ...

Free Music is melodic (polyphonic), making use of long, sustained tones capable of continuous changes in pitch. No traditional form of notation exists to describe it in detail. Grainger's own scores were originally notated on graph paper, with an individual trace for both the pitch and dynamic changes of each note. Free Music assumes a moving tone, precluding any harmonic stability and working with Free music is difficult since almost every basic assumption about musical relationships and method must be ignored. Free music requires the abolition of the scale and its replacement by a controlled continuous glide. In music, the word texture is often used in a rather vague way in reference to the overall sound of a piece of music. ... Pitch may refer to: Look up Pitch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The term notation can be used in several contexts. ...

Grainger resorted to the use of machines because human performers on traditional instruments were not capable of producing the wide range of "gliding tones" with the necessary control over minute fluctuations of pitch. The machines were not intended as performance devices. Rather, they were designed to allow Grainger to hear the sounds he composed. He insisted on hearing his compositions before allowing them to be published, and often went to extraordinary lengths to achieve this.

His most famous machine is the "Hills and Dales" machine, described by Grainger as the "Kangaroo Pouch method of synchronising and playing eight oscillators" (on display in the Grainger Museum). Commonly known as the “Kangaroo Pouch machine”, it consists of a large wooden frame approximately eight feet tall, housing upright rotating turrets left and right (the "feeder' and "eater" turrets) and between which a large paper roll is wound. This roll consists of three layers: a main paper roll 80 inches high, across which eight smaller horizontal strips of paper (or subsidiary rolls) are attached front and back. The top edges of these subsidiary rolls are cut into curvilinear shapes (the hills and dales) and attached to the main roll at their bottom edges, each forming a type of "pouch". As the turrets are rotated clockwise, the undulating shapes cut into the rolls move from right to left. Eight valve oscillators are mounted onto the wooden frame, four at the front and four at the back, as are eight amplifiers. The pitch controls of the oscillators are attached to levers, connected at the other ends to circular runners, or spools, which "ride" moving rolls. The volume controls of the amplifiers are operated in the same way. Thus, the pitch of the oscillators, and the volume of the amplifiers, can be accurately controlled by carefully cutting shapes into the paper rolls. The large size of the machine is necessary to maintain accuracy of pitch control. Because the valves changed characteristics as they aged, the machine needed to be recalibrated after around three hours of use. Oscillation is the variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states. ... For the British rock band of the same name, see Amplifier (band). ...

Grainger’s final machine was perhaps the most sophisticated. It too worked on the principle of a moving roll, but this time made of clear plastic. A row of spotlights projected light beams through the plastic roll and onto an array of photocells, which in turn controlled the pitch of the oscillators. The undulating shapes cut into the paper rolls of the Kangaroo Pouch machine were now simply painted onto the plastic roll with black ink. The circuitry for this machine was transistorised, lending a stability which could not be achieved with the use of valves. The machine was lost in the 1970’s while being transported from Grainger's home in White Plains to the Grainger museum in Melbourne. A photoresistor is an electronic component whose resistance decreases with increasing incident light intensity. ... Assorted discrete transistors A transistor is a semiconductor device, commonly used as an amplifier or an electrically controlled switch. ...

Idiosyncrasies

Grainger was a sado-masochist, with a particular enthusiasm for flagellation, who extensively documented and photographed everything he and his wife did. His walls and ceilings were covered in mirrors so that after sessions of self-flagellation he could take pictures of himself from all angles, documenting each image with details such as date, time, location, whip used, and camera settings.^[4] He gave most of his earnings from 1934–1935 to the University of Melbourne for the creation and maintenance of a museum dedicated to himself. Along with his manuscript scores and musical instruments, he donated the photos, 83 whips, and a pair of his blood-soaked shorts.^{[citation needed]} Although the museum opened in 1935, it was not available to researchers until the 1960s. Flogging demonstration at Folsom Street Fair 2004. ... Whipping on a post Flagellation is the act of whipping (Latin flagellum, whip) the human body. ... The University of Melbourne, is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. ...

He was a cheerful believer in the racial superiority of blond-haired and blue-eyed northern Europeans. This led to attempts, in his letters and musical manuscripts, to use only what he called "blue-eyed English" (akin to Anglish and the 'Pure English' of Dorset poet William Barnes) which expunged all foreign (i.e., non-Germanic) influences. In Grainger's writings, a composer was a "tone-smith" who “dished up” his compositions and a piano was a "keyed-hammer-string". He hated Italian terms in music scores; "poco a poco crescendo molto" became "louden lots bit by bit". Anglish is a form of constrained writing in English in which words with Greek, Latin, and Romance roots are replaced by Germanic ones. ... Dorset (pronounced DOR-sit or [dÉ”.sÉ™t], and sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the south-west of England, on the English Channel coast. ... William Barnes (1801 - 1886) was an English writer, poet, minister, and philologist. ...

This thinking was, however, inconsistently and eccentrically applied: he was friends with and an admirer of Duke Ellington and George Gershwin, and also gave regular donations to African-American causes. Grainger eagerly collected folk music tunes, forms, and instruments from around the world, from Ireland to Bali, and incorporated them into his own works. Furthermore, alongside his love for Scandinavia was a deep distaste for German academic music theory; he almost always shunned such standard (and ubiquitous) musical structures as sonata form, calling them "German" impositions. He was ready to extend his admiration for the wild, free life of the ancient Vikings to other groups around the world, which in his view shared their way of life, such as the ancient Greece of the Homeric epics. This article is about the American Jazz composer and performer. ... Gershwin redirects here. ... This article is about the Indonesian island. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... For other uses, see Viking (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ...

Other eccentricities included never ironing his shirts and wearing the same clothes for days. He once said "concert audiences can't tell the difference'". While in America, he was twice arrested for vagrancy due to his dress. In his later years, when he scavenged in rubbish bins in the middle of the night for parts to make musical instruments, he dressed in his best clothes for task. He was a vegetarian who hated vegetables, living chiefly on boiled rice, milk, cereals, nuts and oranges.

Throughout the 1920s Grainger recorded numerous live-recording player piano music rolls for the Aeolian Company's "Duo Art" system, all of which survive and can be heard. Amongst these is a complete rendition of Grieg's Piano Concerto and a recently unearthed performance of music from "The Warriors". Grainger's own Duo-Art grand pianola can still be seen at the Grainger Museum, replete with Grainger's music machine experimental modifications. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The player piano is a type of piano that plays music without the need for a human pianist to depress the normal keys or pedals. ... The player piano is a type of piano that plays music without the need for a human pianist to depress the normal keys or pedals. ...

Dramatic portrayals

Grainger's life has been portrayed in a number of dramas, notably Rob George's 1982 stage play, Percy & Rose, and a loose 1999 film adaptation, Passion (featuring Richard Roxburgh as Grainger), co-written by George and John Bird, writer of the 1999 Oxford University Press biography of Grainger. Richard Roxburgh (born January 1, 1962) is an Australian actor, who has starred in many Australian films and has appeared in prominent supporting roles in a number of Hollywood productions, usually as villains. ...

Notable works

The Londonderry Air is an anthem of Northern Ireland. ... Lincolnshire Posy is a symphonic piece by Percy Aldridge Grainger, composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association. ... Lincolnshire Posy is a symphonic piece by Percy Aldridge Grainger, composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association. ... Lincolnshire Posy is a symphonic piece by Percy Aldridge Grainger, composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association. ... Lincolnshire Posy is a symphonic piece by Percy Aldridge Grainger, composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association. ... Lincolnshire Posy is a symphonic piece by Percy Aldridge Grainger, composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association. ... Lincolnshire Posy is a symphonic piece by Percy Aldridge Grainger, composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association. ... Lincolnshire Posy is a symphonic piece by Percy Aldridge Grainger, composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association. ... Molly on the Shore is a composition of Percy Aldridge Grainger, typically played by a wind orchestra. ... QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ... HANDEL was the code-name for the UKs National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. ... A harmonious blacksmith in Habit de Marêchal by Nicolas de Larmessin (1684-1755) The Harmonious Blacksmith is the popular name of the final movement, Air and variations, of George Frideric Handels Suite no. ... In music, the BACH motif is the sequence of notes B flat, A, C, B natural. ... Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd (The lively hunt is all my hearts desire), BWV 208, also known as the Hunting Cantata, is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. ... César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890), a composer, organist and music teacher of Belgian origin who lived in France, was one of the great figures in classical music in the second half of the 19th century. ... Illustration by Arthur Rackham of the ballad The Twa Corbies A ballad is a story, usually a narrative or poem, in a song. ... The Lads of Wamphray is Child ballad 184, existing in fragmentary form. ... In music, the BACH motif is the sequence of notes B flat, A, C, B natural. ... In music, the BACH motif is the sequence of notes B flat, A, C, B natural. ... Train Music is a piece of music for orchestra written by the Australian composer Percy Grainger. ... Portrait with oils of Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent, about 1889 (in the Paris Museum of Music) Gabriel Urbain Fauré (May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer. ...

Notes and references

1. ^ Official Percy Grainger website
2. ^ Portrait of Percy Grainger, (eds.) Malcolm Gillies and David Pear (Eastman Studies in Music), University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, 2002, pp.99-103)
3. ^ The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961, ed. Malcolm Gillies, David Pear, Oxford University Press, 1994, ISBN 0198163770.
4. ^ Percy Grainger, John Bird, Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0198166524

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