Percy Grainger

by Wilfrid Mellers

Book Overview

A man of extraordinary charisma, Percy Grainger was at once a legendary virtuoso pianist, a composer of highly original music, an arranger, and a "disher up" of folk music who pierced to the music's heart, and figure of some historical significance in relation to ethnomusicology and music education. A study of the music of this paradoxical figure, this book looks at the musical influence on his compositions of folk-song and of Grieg, and of those...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198162707
• ISBN13: 9780198162704
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"