Free Music Machine Drawings of Percy Grainger, The
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Author: Simon Cutts (ed)
This book presents all the drawings by Percy Grainger for the Free Music Machines he developed with Burnett Cross towards the end of his musical life. They were mostly drawn between 1951 and 1953. This is the first time many of these drawings have been seen, and their improvisational notation and sense of invention make them or recurrent interest to both composers, writers and artists working in wider fields. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. At the same time the book attempts to be the album in which to present them, and in which they can be viewed at a suitably large and readable scale. The book and drawings are introduced by an authoritative contextual essay by musicologist Wilfred Mellers written for this publication. It has been thirty five years in gestation and finally, production, represents one of the prime Coracle achievements, along with Kurt Schwitters' "I Build My Time", of 2001, and Jonathan Williams "Portrait Photographs of 1979".
ISBN 9780906630501. Coracle Books. hb. 72 pages. full colour. 30 x 22.5 cm.
out of print
This book presents all the drawings by Percy Grainger for the Free Music Machines he developed with Burnett Cross towards the end of his musical life. They were mostly drawn between 1951 and 1953. This is the first time many of these drawings have been seen, and their improvisational notation and sense of invention make them or recurrent interest to both composers, writers and artists working in wider fields. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. At the same time the book attempts to be the album in which to present them, and in which they can be viewed at a suitably large and readable scale. The book and drawings are introduced by an authoritative contextual essay by musicologist Wilfred Mellers written for this publication. It has been thirty five years in gestation and finally, production, represents one of the prime Coracle achievements, along with Kurt Schwitters' "I Build My Time", of 2001, and Jonathan Williams "Portrait Photographs of 1979".
ISBN 9780906630501. Coracle Books. hb. 72 pages. full colour. 30 x 22.5 cm.
out of print