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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Percy Grainger; Malcolm Gillies; Bruce Clunies Ross |
| ISBN: | 0198166656 9780198166658 |
| OCLC Number: | 40347354 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xix, 396 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | A recognition -- Theme as related to form in music -- My musical outlook -- Beatless-notation machine -- The music of Cyril Scott -- The impress of personality in unwritten music -- Modernism in pianoforte study -- A blossom time in pianoforte literature -- Modern and universal impulses in music -- The world music of to-morrow -- Richard Strauss: seer and idealist -- The unique value of Natalie Curtis' notations of American Negro folksongs -- Possibilities of the concert wind band from the standpoint of a modern composer -- Let us sit in wait no longer for the advent of great American composers--they are with us already -- The influence of Anglo-Saxon folk music -- The value of Icelandic to an Anglo-Saxon -- Nordic characteristics in music Guide to virtuosity: foreword to students -- What effect is jazz likely to have upon the music of the future? -- To my fellow-composers -- The completion of the percussion family in the orchestra -- Sargent's contributions to music -- The orchestra for Australia -- The gregarious art of music -- Music for ensemble players -- Impressions of art in Europe -- Democracy in music -- A general study of the manifold nature of music -- Arnold Dolmetsch: musical Confucius -- Can music become a universal language? -- Melody versus rhythm -- Characteristics of Nordic music -- Can music be debunked? -- Sublime and frivolous elements in music -- Roger Quilter: the greatest songwriter of our age -- Free music The culturizing possibilities of the instrumentally supplemented A cappella choir -- The specialist and the all-round man -- Grieg: nationalist and cosmopolitan -- English pianism and Harold Bauer -- How to memorize music -- Music heard in England -- The saxophone's business in the band -- About Delius -- Henry Balfour Gardiner: champion of British music -- Questionnaire. |
| Other Titles: | Essays. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Malcolm Gillies and Bruce Clunies Ross ; with Bronwen Arthur and David Pear. |
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