A Source Guide to the Music of Percy Grainger (biographical reminiscences, lists of works, and commentaries)
Biographical and musical essays, program notes to individual works are now on the Web
Thomas P. Lewis, in his Source Guide to the Music of Percy Grainger (Pro-Am Music Resources, White Plains, NY, 1991), produced a compendium of information about Grainger's life, work, and philosophy of music. Because of its comprehensive nature, Lewis' book deserves its own section on this Web site.
Lewis' book contains a catalog of Grainger's works, and lists of recordings and locations of scores, as they were known at the time of the book's publication.
In addition, the volume contains a variety of other materials about Grainger, including essays, both biographical and musicological, by a variety of musicians, critics, friends, and students. A section of "Program Notes" provides short discussions of individual works, drawing, in many cases, on Grainger's own words.
A bit at a time, we are putting this material online, or at least those chapters that stand the test of time. Discographies and lists of locations of scores can become outdated; those in this book are being superseded by more current and complete listings. Chapter 1, "Biographical/Artistic Vignettes," and Chapter 4, "Program Notes" can now be read on this Web site; click on the names to go there directly. (Chapter 4 is currently in a "text only" version; reproductions of scores and musical examples will be added later.)
Below, we reproduce the Table of Contents of the complete book.
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