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  Percy Grainger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Percy Aldridge Grainger (8 July 1882 – 20 February 1961) was an Australian-born pianist, composer, and champion of the saxophone.
From 1901 to 1914 Grainger lived in London where he befriended and was influenced by Edvard Grieg, developing a particular interest in recording the folk songs of rural England.
Rose Grainger's health, however, both mental and physical, was in decline, and she committed suicide in 1922 by jumping from a tall building.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Percy_Grainger   (948 words)

  
 Grainger engl more
Grainger notated the song as she was singing, and she never knew that he had been present.
As Grainger felt his creative urges were tied to his sexual drive, when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, he initially refused treatment - surgical castration - because he felt this would quite literally remove his urge to compose.
Grainger assisted with the design and construction of his own museum at the University of Melbourne, one of the very few truly autobiographical museums in the world.
www.maurice-abravanel.com /grainger_engl_more.html   (5964 words)

  
 Gutsy Grainger Fights Back For Vassar Title
Grainger found her length, and now her drop shot to the front left corner was causing Perry problems.
Grainger took the third and when her opponent fell 0-5 behind in the fourth, it seemed that Perry was saving herself for the inevitable fifth game.
Grainger took the fifth and with it the title in a 7-9 5-9 9-3 9-2 9-1 scoreline.
www.wispa.net /nm/anmviewer.asp?a=108&z=1   (287 words)

  
 Percy Grainger
Grainger believed that folk songs were a good source for learning the history of certain communities.
In 1914, Grainger and his mother moved to the United States to escape World War I. When the United States entered the war in 1917, Grainger enlisted in the U.S. Army Band as a saxophone player.
Even though Grainger was best known for his compositions based on folk music, he was more interested in developing a form of music that was free from the tonal and rhythmic rules of Western art music.
www.sbgmusic.com /html/teacher/reference/composers/grainger.html   (484 words)

  
 USGenWeb - Grainger County Tennessee - Welcome to Free Genealogy Resources for Grainger County
Grainger County has a rich history dating back to its creation in 1796 from parts of Hawkins and Knox counties.
Grainger's current population is estimated at just over 21,000, with most living in owner occupied single family dwellings.
It's namesake was Mary Grainger, who married Governor William Blount and became First Lady of the Territory South of the River Ohio (which later became known as Tennessee).
www.graingertn.us   (568 words)

  
 THE GRAINGER EVENT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ella Grainger's paintings and her tile designs were also seen and some examples of Percy's bizarre but practical towelling clothes.
He emphasised Grainger's deep love and veneration for folk songs and dances and spoke about the similarities in outlook between Grieg, Delius and Grainger (and the other members of the Frankfurt Group) in their deep respect and interest in the genre and how they elevated the folk dance to the form of the symphonic dance.
Her subject was Grainger and 'The Jungle Book' and the enormous influence which Grainger's discovery of the works of Rudyard Kipling, as a young man of 16, had on the development of his musical style.
www.musicweb-international.com /grainger/graineve.html   (1474 words)

  
 Grainger, Percy Aldridge
Percy Aldridge Grainger was born on 8 July 1882 in Brighton, Victoria (Australia), to the renowned architect John H. Grainger.
Grainger also increasingly dedicated himself to the research and the publication of medieval music and the music of foreign cultures.
Percy Alridge Grainger died on 20 February 1961 in New York and was buried in his family’s grave in Adelaide, South Australia.
www.schott-music.com /autoren/KomponistenAZ/show,3510.html   (366 words)

  
 Grainger County Schools Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The mission of the Grainger County School District is to meet the academic, cultural, social, and individual needs of students in order to prepare them to make a meaningful contribution to a democratic society.
The Board of Education believes that the District mission can be best achieved through the uniform application of a standard of higher expectations in all areas for students, district employees, and parents of students.
The Grainger County Board of Education is an equal opportunity employer.
www.grainger.k12.tn.us   (229 words)

  
 Classical Net Review - Grainger - Songs for Baritone
Grainger expert and provider of the liner notes Barry Peter Ould, of the Percy Grainger Society, has realized or edited many of them for performance.
Second, Grainger pads the regular pulse with "extra" beats, to convey the rhythmic freedom of the rustic folk-singer - the basic meter may even be 5/8 (I've not seen the score).
Third, the accompaniment amounts to a study in bell sonorities, from light peals, to heavy tolling (as the true love dies), to triumphant ringing as the lovers meet in the hereafter (represented by a twining rose-bud and green brier).
www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/c/cha09503a.html   (1366 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Percy Grainger [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Percy Grainger (8 July 1882 – 20 February, 1961) was an Australian-born pianist, composer, and champion of the saxophone.
Rose Grainger's health, however, both mental and physical, was in decline, and she committed suicide in 1922.
Firstly, Grainger was an enthusiastic sado-masochist, a pastime perhaps picked up from his mother, an enthusiastic beater of both his father and himself.
encyclozine.com /Percy_Grainger   (665 words)

  
 GRAINGER v. THE STATE.
Grainger was setting off for home; Henson asked him to wait for Broach; Grainger replied he knew Broach, that he would not go till he chose, and declined waiting for him.
Grainger turned his horse suddenly away, and rode a short distance apart from Broach, saying to witness, Henson, "Take notice, I will make him pay for it." The quarrel and ill language continued for about five-eighths of a mile further, when they came to the corner of Rainey's fence, about forty yards from the house.
Grainger used all the means in his power to escape from an overbearing bully.
www.guncite.com /court/state/13tn459.html   (1354 words)

  
 Percy Grainger’s Work with Music Technology. : Melbourne Indymedia
Grainger’s first work with music technology was with recording technology, in the first decade of the 20th century, when he was one of the first composers to make field recordings of folk musicians.
Grainger and his co-workers were quick to seize on the musical possibilities of their machines, and again, were not just using them as simple reproduction devices.
It was either destroyed in transit to the Grainger Museum, or it was disassembled for repairs at the time of Grainger’s death, and the parts were thrown out by mistake, or it was disposed of by Grainger’s executors, who were not aware of its significance.
www.melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2005/02/87624.php   (3796 words)

  
 Grainger Museum - Percy Grainger's Background
Born George Percy Grainger, Grainger was born on 8 July 1882 at Brighton, Victoria.
Grainger, was a well-known architect whose designs included the Princes Bridge in Melbourne.
After the war, Grainger continued his hectic life of concert tours and lectures, including tours to Australia (during which, in the 1930s, he set up the Grainger Museum).
www.lib.unimelb.edu.au /collections/grainger/people/grainger.circle/percy.grainger/percy.grainger.html   (389 words)

  
 Classical Net Review - Grainger - Orchestral Works
Grainger seems finally to be coming into his own after years as, at best, a "pops" composer.
This may be the earliest piece in which we hear Grainger's mature voice (although he revised it as late as 1926, the version heard here), and he finished it before the age of twenty.
Grainger described it as a "free ramble" (rhapsody or fantasia) on the Bach tune known in English as "Sheep may safely graze." The piece impresses the ear almost immediately with its bell sounds, tuned in thirds.
www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/c/cha09493a.html   (1982 words)

  
 ECE News Headlines: Grainger Gifts Fund Programs to Explore Promising New Technologies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Grainger Program is unusual in that it will close the gap between federal funding, which often focuses on new ideas without requiring that their practical utility be demonstrated, and industrial support, which typically targets only proven technologies.
The Grainger Foundation was established by William W. Grainger, a 1919 electrical engineering graduate of the University of Illinois.
Grainger knew that electrical energy is central to the economy, to our nation’s growth.
www.ece.uiuc.edu /news/hl-grainger-gift.html   (992 words)

  
 Welcome to Grainger County Tennessee
Grainger County is the undiscovered gem of East Tennessee.
Grainger County has a long and colorful history.
However, today Grainger County is most famous for its delicious tomatoes, which are prized both near and far.
www.graingertn.com   (164 words)

  
 International Percy Grainger Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The International Percy Grainger Society is dedicated to preserving the musical legacy of Percy Grainger, with his many innovations in composition, in the recording of folk-song, and in the creating of original musical instruments.
Grainger scholars, composers, and aficionados are invited there to study Grainger's life and works.
Percy and Ella Grainger at the Hammond organ, 1950.
www.percygrainger.org   (1531 words)

  
 The Free Music Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Grainger a virtuoso Pianist and pupil of Busoni, had been developing his idea of "free music" since 1900: based on eighth tones and complete rhythmic freedom and unconventionally notated on graph paper.
Grainger had experimented using collections of Theremins and changing speeds of recorded sounds on phonograph disks and eventually developed his own instruments.
Graingers first experiments used a Pianola "player piano" controlling three Solovoxes by means of strings atached to the Pianola's keys, this combintaion was abandoned as it was not possible to create a continuous glissando effect from the Pianola.
www.obsolete.com /120_years/machines/free_music_machine/index.html   (1228 words)

  
 ERP woes cut Grainger profits - Computerworld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Grainger, a $4.3 billion company that sells manufacturing supplies and spare parts, today said its profits for the fourth quarter of last year could be as much as 45% below Wall Street's average expectation of about $50 million.
Grainger is one of several high-profile users that have had difficulties with new R/3-based systems in the past few months.
Grainger CEO Richard Keyser said in a statement that the company has taken steps to correct its transaction-processing problems and has now installed the ERP system at all of its six distribution centers and 370 branch offices.
www.computerworld.com /news/2000/story/0,11280,42976,00.html   (1029 words)

  
 Grainger House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The house which we know as the Percy Grainger house, at 7 Cromwell Place in White Plains, New York, was built in 1893 by the Cromwell family.
After Rose Grainger's death in 1922, Percy spent little time in the house, but in 1928 he married Ella Ström-Brandelius, and from then until his death in 1961, it was Percy and Ella's home.
Other features, like Grainger's exercise bar, lashed between the columns at the entrance to the living room, which he used to maintain his vaunted physical fitness, can be noted when touring the house.
www.percygrainger.org /grahouse.htm   (796 words)

  
 UVA DB Faculty -- Robert Grainger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Grainger, R.M., Mannion, J.E., Cook, T.L. and Zygar, C.A. Defining intermediate stages in cell determination: Acquisition of a lens-forming bias in head ectoderm during lens determination.Dev.
Saha, M.S., Miles, R.R. and Grainger, R.M. (1997) Dorsal-ventral patterning during neural induction in Xenopus: assessment of spinal cord regionalization with Xhum9, a marker for the motor neuron region.
Offield, M.F., Hirsch, N. and Grainger, R.M. (2000) The development of Xenopus tropicalis transgenic lines and their use in studying lens developmental timing in living embryos.
www.virginia.edu /biology/develbio/faculty/grainger.htm   (621 words)

  
 Welcome to the Grainger County Chamber of Commerce, Tennessee
The Grainger County Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1957 to promote business and industry within the county.
Information on these and other economic opportunities in Grainger County are available at Clinch Powell Enterprise Community and Southern Appalachian Economic Development Partnership.
Grainger County is home to Clinch Mountain, Cherokee Lake, and Clinch River.
www.graingerchamber.com   (292 words)

  
 Combs &c. Families of Grainger Co, Tennessee
Most, if not all, of the Combs of Grainger Co, TN, were descendants of the John and Sarah MABRY Combs Family of Guilford Co, North Carolina, Washington Co, VA, and Jefferson County, Tennessee (See Also The Carlton Combs Letter).
Combs was the s/o George Mabry and Agnes ORE Combs of Grainger Co, TN.
We John TALBOTT, John Combs all of Grainger County and State of Tennessee are bound unto William CARROLL Governor of said State in the sum of $1000.00 16 Aug 1830.
www.combs-families.org /combs/records/tn/grain.htm   (3741 words)

  
 Grainger Engineering Library Information Center - General Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Grainger Engineering Library patrons can make purchase suggestions by filling out a form at the reference desk or by contacting Bill Mischo or Mary Schlembach.
Grainger Engineering Library offers tours of the library by appointment only with 24 hours notice.
There are twelve group study rooms located on the west side of the fourth floor of Grainger.
web.library.uiuc.edu /grainger/services/geninfo.htm   (244 words)

  
 Grainger, Percy (1882 - 1961)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Australian pianist and composer Percy Grainger, an eccentric figure, may seem of marginal importance.
Grainger's original instrumental music includes the delightful Handel in the Strand, intended for piano trio, piano quartet or string orchestra, and Mock Morris, for either string sextet or violin and piano, or again in arrangements for string or full orchestra.
Grainger wrote some original songs and choral music as well as solo and choral arrangements of folk-songs.
www.naxos.com /composer/Grainger.htm   (263 words)

  
 Arthur D. Grainger - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Arthur D. Grainger earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Morgan State (1964) where he was part of the "famous trio" Barnes-Grainger-Williams under Clarence Stephens.
Grainger, Arthur D. Ultrafilters on the collection of finite subsets of an infinite set.
Grainger, Arthur D. Invariant subspaces for polynomially compact almost superdiagonal operators on $l(p\sb i)$.
www.math.buffalo.edu /mad/PEEPS/grainger_arthurd.html   (206 words)

  
 Charlie
The pioneer women were great providers and with the aid of two camp ovens and billies on an open log fire, three or four course spanking hot meals would be served, with all the trimmings too.
Charles Andrew Grainger on Chum - the horse he loved and broke in.
Father was chairman and secretary of the School Committee and when some special business had to be dealt with and it was necessary to have a quorum - 6 I think- he would get me to ride around after tea and literally drag the required number to the meeting.
familygalore.homestead.com /Charlie.html   (1442 words)

  
 Percy Grainger Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The majority of Grainger’s hitherto unpublished music is in the process of being brought into print by Bardic Edition in association with the Grainger Society and Estate.
The Society is active in encouraging and organising recordings of Grainger’s compositions as well as assisting with programme building for concerts and other Grainger activities in general.
The Significance of Percy Grainger - Timothy Reynish
www.bardic-music.com /grainger.htm   (1432 words)

  
 Grainger extended
Grainger, which supports manufacturing facilities in markets ranging from hydraulics to office supplies, has harnessed the Web to reach buyers and to monitor its 1,200 suppliers.
Grainger's goal is to make it easy for customers to find the products they need and get them quickly.
Grainger is moving from a location-based security model to a role-based security model.
www.networkworld.com /ee/2003/eesignoff.html   (1732 words)

  
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We are committed to being a leader when it comes to providing a solid home, built with quality, at a solid value for our customers.
Brian Grainger Construction is on the cutting edge of construction technology.
Brian Grainger Construction has chosen time and time again to be at the forefront.
www.graingerconstruction.com   (441 words)

  
 Grainger
Most Texas Farm Bureau members are aware of the organization's partnership with Grainger Industrial Supply, where TFB members are provided a substantial savings on a variety of industrial products, from air compressors, motors, hydraulics and power transmissions, to heating, cooling and ventilation products, to electrical and plumbing supplies, pumps and tools.
What most members are not aware of is that Grainger sells repair parts for the majority of the equipment the company sells (and even parts for products is doesn't sell) and that the same 10 percent discount applies.
First, Grainger Parts has 150 phone agents in two call centers that are especially trained to help you find what you need.
www.txfb.org /TexasAgriculture/2001/021601grainger.htm   (638 words)

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