ABSTRACT

J. Marshall Bevil,

"Grainger, George Percy (Percy Aldridge),"
in American National Biography

(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)

 

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            Percy Grainger (1882-1961), an Australian-born, German-trained pianist, composer, musical scholar, and musical experimenter, was a resident citizen of the U.S. from 1918 onward. Although he is best known for his compositions in traditional styles, Grainger is most important for his aleatoric works and for the precedent that he set for notational accuracy in ethnomusicological investigations. Grainger's personal, intellectual, and artistic idiosyncrasies have continued to limit the general estimation of his importance. However, an increase in both the amount and the quality of Grainger research since ca. 1980 has the potential for changing that situation. 

       

Dr. J. Marshall Bevil is a native of Houston, where he also currently lives. He is both a string music educator and a musicologist (B.Mus. with honors, Oklahoma Baptist University, 1970; M.Mus. - Musicology, University of North Texas, 1973; Ph.D. - Musicology, University of North Texas, 1984) with specialization in the history of bowed string instruments, oral-aural musical transmission, British and British-American folk music, and British academic music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His doctoral dissertation has been published by University Microfilms, International (UMI No. 8423854, "Dissertation Services"), and he has published post-doctoral studies in professional journals and presented papers in his areas of specialization at regional, national, and international academic convocations in both the United States and Great Britain. He also is the author of encyclopedia articles on John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Percy Aldridge Grainger; and he has published on the Internet. In addition to his pedagogic and academic pursuits, he is a performer on the Welsh crwth, a composer and arranger for string and vocal ensembles (publications on Sibelius.com, from December of 2004), and a forensic musicological consultant and expert witness  in copyright and intellectual property misappropriation disputes ( links:  1    2  ). 

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