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The towel clothes in the Grainger Museum are one of the highlights of the Costume Collection. Numbering 26 individual pieces or outfit, the towel clothes represent the Graingers’ innovative ideas and creativity in dress. Percy Grainger wrote about…

Pair of cream towelling breeches and matching jacket with red stripe trim and fringed hem, with matching leggings. Hand sewn using manufactured towels. Worn by Percy Grainger between 1910-1914 while teaching and composing.

Audiences were fascinated and amused and sometimes bemused by the novelty and adventurous nature of Grainger’s orchestration in performances of his radical compositions. The Brisbane Courier-Mail observed, after a concert in October 1934, how…

This heavily annotated cover of the singers’ parts for Tribute to Foster demonstrate the complexity of the performance arrangements, which included three conductors harnessing three sets of musicians, often playing to a different beat.

Tribute to Grainger conducted by Keith Humble, and tickets to the event, 1976

Grainger Museum Archive, HO1196

Tristram Cary in his electronic studio at Fressingfield, UK, early 1970s

Manuscript score, Rare Music, Special Collections, University of Melbourne

Divertimento is an example of British composer Tristram Cary’s combination of electronic compositional techniques, including recorded sound, electronic sounds, and…

Trios was essentially a musical game of chance, where three performers play a unique musical event, with content drawn from 16 ‘Events’ pre-created by Cary. The game is played by three players, one playing a VCS3, and the other two using DUAL…

This tuning fork was manufactured by Deagan. It is inscribed on the back ‘ J.C. Deagan. Official pitch of A.F. of M. 1917 Adopted by US Gov't. 1920’. J. C. Deagan, was a musician and expert in the science of acoustics. He wrote many papers on the…