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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.
		Rose Grainger's health, however, both mental and physical, was in decline, and she committed suicide in 1922 by jumping from a tall building.
		Percy Grainger died in New York City and he was buried in Adelaide, Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Percy_Grainger (980 words)

	Theremin Vox - Percy Grainger
		Percy Grainger (8 July 1882 - 20 February, 1961) was an Australian born pianist and composer.
		Percy Grainger moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918.
		Percy Grainger died in New York City and was buried in Adelaide, South Australia.
	www.thereminvox.com /article/articleview/52/1/8 (99 words)

	Percy Grainger- Spoon River (SATBBs)
		Percy Grainger's relationship with the saxophone was both joyous and far-reaching.
		Grainger was convinced of the ideal musical qualities of the saxophone from his very first encounter with the instrument.
		Grainger was especially interested in the sonority of instrumental families, and his particular favorite was the family of saxophones.
	members.aol.com /tothefore2/grainger9.html (486 words)

	Percy Grainger
		Percy Grainger was born July 8, 1882, in Melbourne, Australia.
		Grainger believed that folk songs were a good source for learning the history of certain communities.
		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)

	Classical Net Review - Percy Grainger
		Although Grainger's "inner weather" seemed to mix a boy's playroom with the Hellfire Club, his outward eccentricities and his adventures as concert pianist and brilliant inventor mark him as one of the few exceptions to the general rule.
		Grainger took the name we know him by - Percy Aldridge Grainger - at least in part as a reminder of his mother: Aldridge was her maiden name.
		Grainger practiced flagellation (both whipper and whippee), made nude photographs of himself after various sessions, and left an explanatory document with his lawyer in case his wife or he himself were found dead in strange circumstances.
	www.classical.net /music/books/reviews/0198166524a.html (1491 words)

	Collaborating with Percy Grainger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		I have the pleasure first of all of thanking the Dean [1], and the Grainger Committee, and all the people who are associated with it, for bringing me back again to where I have so many friends, and where it is such a pleasure to work once again for Percy.
		Percy came leaping down the stairs, two or three at a time, and said: "Now, you take this bar, you take this one, play a little more softly over here, you play louder"...
		But Percy was the kind of a man who, when he suggested something, you felt you ought to have a try at it.
	www.rainerlinz.net /NMA/repr/Collaborating.html (1628 words)

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		Percy Grainger was born in Melbourne, Australia on July 8, 1882 to John Harry Grainger, an architect, and Rose Annie Aldridge.
		Percy attended the Village Competition at the Brigg Festival where the newly introduced Folksong class was judged and prizes given to the best unpublished song performed by the locals.
		Percy was well aware of the historical and personal significance of his undertaking.
	members.aol.com /ComposerScott/essays/PAG.html (2526 words)

	Percy Grainger:
		Percy Grainger, made famous by 'Country Gardens', comes to loath it because no one pays attention to what he thought was his more important work.
		BARRY OULD, HISTORIAN: Grainger was one of the foremost concert pianists of the 20th century.
		Percy had heard her name called out in the passenger list and, of course, Percy was absolutely excited by anything to do with Scandinavia.
	www.abc.net.au /gnt/history/Transcripts/s1041034.htm (931 words)

	Biography Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
		Percy secretly nursed some bigoted feelings that were fostered by his mother's strong dislike of "brown-eyed and dark-haired people".
		Grainger did not believe in melting pots, because he valued so strongly the raw materials that were threatened with extinction therein".
		One year later the Grainger Museum was opened, but as it was essentially a museum for research purposes, it was not accessible to the general public.
	home.hetnet.nl /~percygrainger/biografie5-gb.htm (953 words)

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		Percy A. Grainger was born on July 8, 1882 in Brighton, Victoria.
		Grainger was considered to be a somewhat original music thinker for his time; he accomplished this with his focus medieval European music, and the music of other cultures.
		Grainger’s main focus was to express the elegance of these old songs, which he referred to as the “lasting testament to the spirit of mankind.” As an example of these "heartoutbursts," as Grainger called them, we have the lyrics to “Lord Melbourne.”;
	www.bsu.edu /web/kjgalligan/portfolio/grainger.html (1924 words)

	International Percy Grainger Society
		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.
		Percy and Ella Grainger at the Hammond organ, 1950.
		The International Percy Grainger Society was founded by Ella Grainger, who was its leading spirit until her death in 1979.
	www.percygrainger.org (1715 words)

	WO Chapter 6
		Was it his acquaintance with Grainger during the first decade of the century, and their joint devotion to Delius and his music.
		Grainger and Beecham must have met at the latest in 1908, at the London première of Brigg Fair; in his biography of Grainger, John Bird writes that Beecham invited Grainger to become his assistant conductor.
		One of the leading UK record companies, Chandos, is engaged in recording all of the music of Percy Grainger; two records have been issued by the RNCM Wind Orchestra of all of the original music for wind band and wind ensemble, listed here in order of composition.
	www.timreynish.com /wo_chapter_6.htm (1618 words)

	Grainger House
		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.
		Percy is wearing one of his famous Towel Suits, designed from striped toweling by Percy, made for him by Ella.
	www.percygrainger.org /grahouse.htm (796 words)

	The Jon Rose Web - Articles - Percy Grainger........a little background information
		For example, Grainger's The Warriors written in 1913 seems to predict Charles Ives with its use of offstage brass band, rhythmic complexities, masses of tuned percussion, use of two conductors and outbursts of spiky dissonance in basically a tonal piece.
		Grainger was also a pioneer of the 'found object'.
		His wish for his skeleton to be exhibited in The Grainger Museum was refused on grounds of public decency.
	www.jonroseweb.com /c_articles_grainger_notes.html (515 words)

	Nimbus Records, Grand Piano, NI 8809, Percy Grainger plays Grainger - Booklet Note
		Grainger loved with an exuberant passion folk music of every context and was convinced that European civilisation had become artistically too rarefied, having lost its earthiness and animal vitality.
		Percy, wary that his other compositions would be neglected, could be sarcastic about his ubiquitous piece, wrote, "The typical English country garden is not often used to grow flowers in, it is more likely to be a vegetable plot.
		Grainger's Ramble on Love is something of a throwback to the nineteenth-century pianist's paraphrases, and in it Grainger exhibits his shrewd use of piano textures.
	www.wyastone.co.uk /nrl/gpiano/8809c.html (4626 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)

	Passion Movie Preview - Percy Grainger - pianist, composer, eccentric, masochist - life story.
		Percy Grainger - pianist, composer, eccentric, masochist - was one of the most complex characters ever to come out of Australian culture.
		And, however good her accent was, if it sounded different from that of Roxburgh - who plays her son, the tortured musical genius Percy Grainger, in the film - then the movie wasn't going to work.
		Hershey knew, too, that Grainger was suspected of having an incestuous affair with his mother, Rose - the part she herself, aged considerably for the film, would be playing.
	www.preview-online.com /may_june/feature_articles/passion/passion_pg1.html (470 words)

	Percy Grainger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		It is, perhaps, particularly difficult to fit the life and professional activities of Percy Grainger into a neat 3-paragraph summary.
		In the latter part of Grainger's life he became obsessed with the notion of "free music"; that is, music which could be freed from the "tyranny" of the human performer.
		Grainger was also notable for his works for the theremin and his interest in the Hammond organ.
	ucsu.colorado.edu /~galem/percygrainger.html (202 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)

	The Free Music Machine
		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 (1228 words)

	Percy Grainger, Pleasant & Delightful: Percy Grainger Plays Folk Songs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Born in Victoria, Australia in 1882, Percy Grainger was a very influential folk-song collector, whose classical arrangements of the songs he found are still used and admired today.
		Though an accomplished pianist by the age of twelve, it was not until his family relocated to London and his friendship with composers such as Grieg and Delius developed, that he began to seriously investigate the traditional music of the UK and Europe.
		Then, of course, there is the aspect of "Hey, that's Percy Grainger actually playing the tunes he collected!" His style is very good, perhaps not in a classical sense and maybe with a few too many flourishes in places.
	www.greenmanreview.com /percy_grainger.html (719 words)

	Percy Grainger Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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.
		Membership details for the USA and Canada are available from: The International Percy Grainger Society, 7 Cromwell Place, White Plains, NY 10601 or via their new website.
		The Significance of Percy Grainger - Timothy Reynish
	www.bardic-music.com /grainger.htm (1344 words)

	Grainger, Percy (1882 - 1961) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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)

	Percy Grainger: The Pictorial Biography - Robert Simon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This pictorial biography is a living evocation of one of the foremost musicians of the twentieth century, Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961).
		Grainger was a composer whose contribution to the history of music has been made the subject of considerable reevauation over the past four decades by the Mercury recordings of Grainger's music by Frederick Fennell, the London recordings by Benjamin Britten, and the Australian recordings by John Hopkins.
		Grainger's life yielded a rich legacy of photographs and paintings which, once collected from all corners of the earth, as Robert Simon has done, could almost write itself as a narrative.
	www.giamusic.com /scstore/P-6583.html (246 words)

	Percy Grainger, Represented Composer, Australian Music Centre
		Grainger was a musician of unusual breadth of vision, a composer of a broad spectrum of works from the highly experimental to the overtly popular
		Percy Aldridge Grainger was born at Brighton, near Melbourne, in 1882 and from an early age showed a precocious musical talent, making his first public appearance at the age of ten.
		An energetic eccentric, Percy Grainger has gained a certain measure of affection and stature in the public mind as an Australian musical pioneer.
	www.amcoz.com.au /composers/composer.asp?id=243 (401 words)

	Percy Aldridge Grainger - Britannica Concise
		Grainger, Percy (Aldridge) - Australian-born American composer, pianist, and conductor who was also known for his work in collecting folk music.
		Percy, Walker - American novelist who wrote of the New South transformed by industry and technology.
		Percy, Thomas - English antiquarian and bishop whose collection of ballads, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), awakened widespread interest in English and Scottish traditional songs.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9365937 (310 words)

	Portrait of Percy Grainger , 1580460879 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Percy Grainger (1882-1961) was a pianist, composer, ethnographer, essayist, and much more.
		In an age of increasing specialisation Grainger held to a breathless all-roundedness.
		Family and friends, pupils, musical associates and chance acquaintances recall their experiences of Percy Grainger from his boyhood in colonial Australia, through his conservatorium years in Germany, on to his early professional years in London, and further to the zenith of his career and then years of decline in the United States.
	www.urpress.com /80460879.HTM (494 words)

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