Percy Grainger

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Prefatory Notes by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
• Appreciaton by Leopold Stokowski
• Author's Preface
• 1 `Bubbles'
• 2 Doctors and Dustbin Lids
• 3 `Perks' joins the Frankfurt Gang
• 4 Saint and Sinner
• 5 Grettir the Strong Flexes his Muscles
• 6 `The years before the war were Hell'
• 7 The Twisted Genius and the Dinkum Aussie
• 8 Packed Houses and Zulu Warriors
• 9 `I am an Australian, not a Corsican'
• 10 Unto Brigg Fair
• 11 The Little Half-Viking
• 12 `Poor put-upon Percy'
• 13 `Adieu Old World! I would hail a New World'
• 14 `Your mad side has ruined us'
• 15 Beatless Music, Blue-Eyed English, and a Nordic Princess
• 16 `The measure of my artistic defeat'
• 17 `I shall go back to the joys of my teen-years'
• 18 `Your loving but defeated, Percy'
• Select Source List
• Appendix A. Catalogue of Grainger's Published Original Compositions and Arrangements
• Appendix B. Statements on `Free Music'
• Appendix C. Preface to Spoon River, American Folk-Music Setting No. 2
• Appendix D. Discography: Performances by Grainger
• Appendix E. Catalogue of Duo-Art Piano Rolls made by Grainger
• Appendix F. Select Bibliography: Performances of Grainger's Works by Others
• Index