Cross Grainger experiments "Sea Song" Sketch with 3 Solovoxes played by Pianola roll
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1950
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Black and white photograph
Player Piano conceived as a Free Music experiment with notes by Percy Grainger
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Photograph of Free Music experiments with Grainger's Duo Art player piano, and types notes by Grainger describing the experiment
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1940s
Untitled (Codemaster)
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November 1951
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Watercolour, ink and graphite on paper, 14.2 x 27.9 cm
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Model for side-ridge clothes-line and scotch-tape-tin oscillator-player
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27 January 1952
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Watercolour and ink on paper, 27.9 x 21.6cm
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Untitled (Coloured drawing of plastic discs with explanatory account)
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25 April 1952
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Watercolour, ink and graphite on paper, 35.5 x 21.6cm
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Untitled (Free music machine process)
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n.d. (c.1952)
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Typescript, watercolour and ink on paper, 19.9 x 13.9 cm
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Example of swells (Estey reed tone-tool)
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Ink on paper
21.4 x 14.3 cm
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Grainger Museum display legend:
Free Music
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Ink, paper, wood, tape, glass
Grainger scored his compositions Free Music No.1 and Free Music No.2 (1936-7) for multiple theremins. These scores were reproduced by Grainger in this Free Music Legend which he made for the Grainger Museum’s official opening on 10 December 1938. The musical scores are like graphs: the y-axis indicates a pitch range from A sharp below middle C upwards for two octaves, and a volume range from ppp to fff; the x-axis indicates the flow of time. The scores were extremely difficult to perform accurately, and Grainger realised he would have to create his own instruments to bring his Free Music concept to reality.
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6 December 1938
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Oscillator-playing tone-tool, 3rd experiment, sketched 24 November 1951, copied 12 February 1952
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Watercolour and ink on paper.
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Sketched 24 November 1951, copied 12 February 1952
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