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Percy Grainger (Oxford Studies of Composers) '92

Mellers, Wilfrid, Mellers. 　著

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価格 \7,796（税込）

発行年月	1992年09月
出版社／提供元	Oxford University Press
出版国	イギリス
言語	英語
媒体	冊子
装丁	paper
ページ数／巻数	176 p., 35 music examples
ジャンル	洋書
ISBN	9780198162704
商品コード	0202031809
本の性格	一般書
商品URL	https://kw.maruzen.co.jp/ims/itemDetail.html?itmCd=0202031809

内容

Grainger was a phenomenon, at once a legendary virtuoso pianist, acomposer of highly original music, an arranger and "disher up" of folk music,and a figure of some historical significance in relation to ethnomusicologyand music education. This book is a study of his music.

The importance of being Percy; Percy Puck and Peter Pan - "rippinglyboyish"; Percy's paradox - the lonely desert man and the hills themselves;dancing with the happy tribes - Grainger and the human body; singing with thehappy tribes - Grainger and the human voice; Grainger's guising - music asritual action and magic spell; old worlds for new - rambling and meanderingthrough four mini-masterpieces; presenting the past - the transcriptions andconcert-paraphrases; a "gifted child" looks back to the future - Grainger asinnovator and educator; Grainger as Green man. Appendices: Grainger as guiser- an anthropological note; Percy Grainger, William Barnes and blue-eyedEnglish.