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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Malcolm Williamson, Percy Grainger, Rolf de Heer, Paul Haslinger, Ron Grainer, Nic Cester, Bruce Smeaton, Rolf Harris, David Hirschfelder, Anne Boyd, Johnny Klimek, Rob Dougan, John Farnham, Tom Morgan, Peter Sculthorpe, Richard Tognetti, Arthur Benjamin, Laurence Henry Hicks, Peter Tahourdin. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Malcolm Williamson est un compositeur australien, né Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson à Sydney (Australie) le 21 novembre 1931, décédé à Cambridge (Angleterre) le 2 mars 2003. D'abord élève au Conservatoire de musique de Sidney (où il étudie le piano, le violon, le cor, ainsi que la composition avec Eugène Goossens) jusqu'en 1950, il s'établit définitivement cette année là en Angleterre, où il reçoit l'enseignement d'Elisabeth Lutyens (à partir de 1953) et d'Erwin Stein . En 1975, à la mort d'Arthur Bliss, il lui succède au poste de Maître de musique de la reine Elizabeth II, ce qui l'amène à écrire un certain nombre de compositions "officielles" dédiées à la famille royale, durant la période où il occupe ce poste, jusqu'à son décès en 2003. On lui doit notamment des pièces pour piano (dont quatre sonates) et pour orgue, de la musique de chambre, des œuvres pour orchestre (parmi elles, plusieurs concertos - dont quatre pour piano - et sept symphonies), des œuvres pour voix soliste(s) (dont plusieurs cycles de Songs) et/ou chorales (dont des messes), des musiques pour la scène (dont des ballets et opéras), ainsi que quelques musiques de films et pour la télévision. Sa musique est influencée dans un premier temps par Arnold Schönberg et la musique sérielle - au contact, en particulier, d'Elisabeth Lutyens -. Mais surtout, avec sa conversion au catholicisme en 1...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Percy Grainger, Bill Scott, Joe Watson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: George Percy Grainger (8 July 1882 20 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, and pianist, who worked under the stage name of Percy Aldridge Grainger. Percy Grainger was born in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. His father John Harry Grainger was a successful and talented architect who grew up in France and was educated in a monastery school in Yvetot. He emigrated from London, England in 1876. John Grainger's business partner and best friend was David Mitchell, the father of Nellie Melba. Her father was determined to prevent Nellie from taking up singing as a career and John Grainger is credited with encouraging her singing. He maintained a close friendship with Nellie and later designed her house "Coombe Cottage" in 1912. Percy Grainger's mother, Rose (née Rosa Annie Aldridge; 3 July 1861, Adelaide, South Australia 30 April 1922, New York City), was the daughter of George Aldridge and Sarah Jane Aldridge (née Brown), hoteliers from Adelaide, also of English immigrant stock. Graingers mother contracted syphilis, from her husband, early in the marriage and after the birth of Percy refused to touch him until he was five years old for fear of passing it on to him. When Grainger was aged 11, his father left to visit London and Rose took Percy to live with her parents in Adelaide. He returned to Adelaide but did not rejoin his family. In 1903, while he was touring New Zealand, Rose wrote to Grainger that his father had visited her in Adelaide and was travelling to Rotorua for treatment, warning him not to touch his father if they should meet. On a train to Rotorua, Grainger did run into his father and later wrote about the meeting to a friend. Grainge...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=254507 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on March 1, 1998. The length of the article is 5881 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Australian pianist Percy Grainger typifies the blend of discipline and active physicality represented in society during the early 1900s. The British Victorian culture, represented by self-control and endurance, was giving way to the body-oriented attentiveness of modern mores. Grainger incorporated both aspects, using discipline for music and physical attractiveness for performance.

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Title: Percy Grainger and manliness. (musician)(Australian Masculinities)
Author: David Pear
Publication: Journal of Australian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1998
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Issue: n56Page: p106(12)

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Chapters: Sabine Baring-Gould, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, Cecil Sharp, A. L. Lloyd, Peter Warlock, Lucy Broadwood, Ernest John Moeran, Joseph Ritson, Thomas Percy, George Butterworth, David Lewiston, William B. Sandys, Henry Balfour Gardiner, Frank Kidson, William Chappell, Kate Lee, Steve Roud. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 104. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ralph Vaughan Williams OM (pronounced ) (12 October 1872 26 August 1958) was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song which influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, containing many folk song arrangements set as hymn tunes, in addition to several original compositions. Ralph Vaughan Williams was born on 12 October 1872 in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, where his father, the Revd Arthur Vaughan Williams (the surname Vaughan Williams is an unhyphenated double-barrelled name), was vicar. Following his father's death in 1875 he was taken by his mother, Margaret Susan née Wedgwood (18431937), the great-granddaughter of the potter Josiah Wedgwood, to live with her family at Leith Hill Place, a Wedgwood family home in the North Downs. He was also related to the Darwins, Charles Darwin being a great-uncle. Though born into the privileged intellectual upper middle class, Vaughan Williams never took it for granted and worked all his life for the democratic and egalitarian ideals in which he believed. The Darwin-Wedgwood-Galton family tree, showing Vaughan Williams's relationships to Charles Darwin and Josiah WedgwoodAs a student he had studied piano, "which I never could play, and the violin, which was my musical salvation." After Charterhouse School he attended the Royal College of Mus...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=79448 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on September 1, 1996. The length of the article is 740 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961.
Author: Robert L. Ross
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1996
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v53Issue: n1Page: p75(2)

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7 pp. With notes on background and performance by Mr. Grainger, who set this English Morris Dance tune to piano as a birthday gift for his mother (for July 3, 1918). ... Read more

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Chapters: Peter Singer, Gough Whitlam, Ben Elton, Greg Egan, Germaine Greer, Percy Grainger, Tim Minchin, Paul Mcdermott, Clive James, Carmen Lawrence, Bob Brown, Phillip Adams, Mark Oliphant, Anna Bligh, Andrew Hansen, Chris Taylor, John Doyle, Bill Hayden, Fred Hollows, John Harsanyi, J. L. Mackie, Andrew Denton, Guy Pearce, Andrew Bartlett, Lyn Allison, Peter Cundall, Andrew Bolt, Alan Carpenter, Frederick Vosper, Montague Miller, Damien Broderick, Joseph Post, Sean Williams, Julian Morrow, Dorothy Hewett, Russell Blackford, David Marr, Man Bites God, Richard Carleton, Cameron Reilly, Kieran Galvin, Padraic Mcguinness, Eva Cox, Josh Thomas, Catherine Deveny, Ian Robinson, Robyn Williams, Jim Jeffries, Noel Counihan, Graham Oppy, Brian Wilshire, Terry Lane, Ian Hunter, Antony Loewenstein, Graeme Samuel, Jill Singer, Sue-Ann Post, Edward Woodward, Dick Gross. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 354. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (pronounced ), served as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975. He was dismissed as Prime Minister by the Governor-General Sir John Kerr at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis; he is the only Prime Minister to have his commission terminated in that manner. Whitlam entered Parliament in 1952, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). In 1960 he was elected deputy leader of the ALP and in 1967, after party leader Arthur Calwell retired, he assumed the leadership and became Leader of the Opposition. After narrowly losing the 1969 election, Whitlam led Labor to victory at the 1972 election after 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government. In his time in office, Whitlam and his government implemented a large number of new programs and policy chang...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12454 ... Read more

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Grainger's extraordinary work, subtitled "music to an imaginary ballet", was prompted by a request from the English conductor Thomas Beecham to compose a ballet score for the Diaghilev company. The commission never materialized, but Grainger nevertheless proceeded to create a his most adventuresome work to date - employing a large orchestra with an expanded percussion section and three pianos, requiring three conductors for coordination. The world premiere for the now imaginary ballet took place in December 1919, with the composer on a piano plus the Chicago Symphony conducted by Frederick Stock. The new, digitally-enhanced study score offered here has been reproduced from the "compressed full score" issued in 1926 under the composer's name by B. Schott's Sohne, Mainz. ... Read more

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22 pp. Soft cover measuring 12 inches by 9 inches. ... Read more