Grainger on Music

Contents

• Chronology
• Introduction
• Part I: To 1914
• 1 A Recognition (c.1898-1900)
• 2 Theme as related to Form in Music (1901)
• 3 My Musical Outlook (1902-4)
• 4 Beatless-notation Machine (1902/03)
• 5 The Music of Cyril Scott (1912)
• Part II: 1915-21
• 6 The Impress of Personality on Unwritten Music (1915)
• 7 Modernism in Pianoforte Study (1915)
• 8 A Blossom Time in Pianoforte Literature (1915)
• 9 Modern and Universal Impulses in Music (1916)
• 10 The World Music of To-morrow (1916)
• 11 Richard Strauss: Seer and Idealist (1917)
• 12 The Unique Value of Natalie Curtis' Notations of American Negro Folksongs (1917/18)
• 13 Possibilities of the Concert Wind Band from the Standpoint of a Modern Composer (1918)
• 14 Let us Sit in Wait No Longer for the Advent of Great American Composers--They are with Us Already (1919)
• 15 The Influence of Anglo-Saxon Folk Music (1920)
• 16 The Value of Icelandic to an Anglo-Saxon (1920/21)
• 17 Nordic Characteristics in Music (1921)
• Part III: 1922-30
• 18 Guide to Virtuosity: Foreword to Students (1923)
• 19 What Effect is Jazz likely to have upon the Music of the Future? (1924)
• 20 To My Fellow-Composers (1924)
• 21 The Completion of the Percussion Family in the Orchestra (1926)
• 22 Sargent's Contributions to Music (1927)
• 23 The Orchestra for Australia
• 24 The Gregarious Art of Music
• 25 Music of Ensemble Players (1927)
• 26 Impressions of Art in Europe (1929)
• Part IV: 1931-39
• 27 Democracy in Music (1931)
• 28 A General Study of the Manifold Nature of Music (1932)
• 29 Arnold Dolmetsch: Musical Confucius (1933)
• 30 Can Music become a Universal Language? (1933)
• 31 Melody versus Rhythm (1932/3)
• 32 Characteristics of Nordic Music (1933)
• 33 Can Music be Debunked? (1933/4)
• 34 Sublime and Frivolous Elements in Music (1934)
• 35 Roger Quilter: The Greatest Songwriter of our Age (1936)
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• Part V: 1940 and After
• 37 The Culturing Possibilities of the Instrumentally Supplemented A Capella Choir (1942)
• 38 The Specialist and the All-round Man (1943)
• 39 Grieg: Nationalist and Cosmopolitan (1943)
• 40 English Pianism and Harold Bauer (1945)
• 41 How to Memorize Music (1948)
• 42 Music Heard in England (1949)
• 43 The Saxophone's Business in the Band (1949)
• 44 About Delius (1950-52)
• 45 Henry Balfour Gardiner: Champion of British Music (1951)
• 46 Questionnaire (1955)
• Appendix - List of Grainger's Writings
• Index