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Definition of Percy grainger
1. Noun. United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961).
Generic synonyms: Composer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percy Grainger
Literary usage of Percy grainger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Pianists on Piano Playing: Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos by James Francis Cooke (1917)
"... percy grainger NEW EFFORTS WITH OLD MEANS JUST at the moment when the musical
pessimists were declaring that pianistic resources were coming to an end, ..."
2. Richard Strauss, the Man and His Works by Henry Theophilus Finck (1917)
"RICHARD STRAUSS: SEER AND IDEALIST BY percy grainger AMONG the great composers
of our era, Richard Strauss seems to me to stand forth as a type of the ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Bellman 22:299 Mr 17 '17 percy grainger startles the musical world with a
masterpiece, por Cur Opinion 63:96 Ag '17 Play hoy grows up. ..."
4. The New Music Review and Church Music Review by American Guild of Organists (1906)
"If there is a lull in the operations of passionate workers in North American
Indian, or Negro fields, Mr. percy grainger comes with much talk about the ..."
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