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VCA Interactive Composition students in the Grainger Museum in the Living Instruments project 2019
The B.Music Interactive Composition students photographed here in the Grainger Museum are participating in the Living Instruments Project, an interdisciplinary collaboration that digitally preserves and transforms instruments in the Grainger Museum…
Recording and sampling Grainger's Staff Bells for the Living Instruments project 2019
This gallery in the Grainger Museum shows elements of the exhibition How it Plays: Innovations in Percussion. This exhibition has provided resources for The Living Instruments Project, an interdisciplinary collaboration that digitally preserves and…
"Hills and dales" air-blown-reeds tone-tool No. 1
watercolour, ink and graphite on paper
"Hills and dales" air-blown-reeds tone-tool No. 6
watercolour and ink on paper
Percy Grainger
Black and white photograph.
Photo: 14.3 x 10.3 cm
Photo and board: 16.4 x 10.8 cm
This portrait shows the young Percy Grainger dressed in a suit, vest and tie and looking to his right. The photograph has been mounted onto thick cardboard with…
Photo: 14.3 x 10.3 cm
Photo and board: 16.4 x 10.8 cm
This portrait shows the young Percy Grainger dressed in a suit, vest and tie and looking to his right. The photograph has been mounted onto thick cardboard with…
Percy Grainger, c.1885
Printing-out paper print. Photo: 14.3 x 10.1; Photo and board: 16.4 x 10.8
The photograph is mounted on board from the photography studio. An inscription on the mounting board, written by Percy Grainger in red ink, reads "PG Sent by Mididney, May…
The photograph is mounted on board from the photography studio. An inscription on the mounting board, written by Percy Grainger in red ink, reads "PG Sent by Mididney, May…
Percy Grainger
Silver gelatin print.
Photo: 20 x 14.5 cm
Photo and board: 22.8 x 16.4
This photograph is from a series of promotional photographs Grainger had made in London as his performing career progressed. The photograph was taken at Hana Studios, a…
Photo: 20 x 14.5 cm
Photo and board: 22.8 x 16.4
This photograph is from a series of promotional photographs Grainger had made in London as his performing career progressed. The photograph was taken at Hana Studios, a…
Tokugawa Iemasa (1884–1963)
Silver gelatine print.
Photo: 33.3 x 23.4 cm
Photo and board: 48.4 x 35.4 cm
In the late 1930s Harris & Ewing was the largest photographic studio in the United States, with five physical locations and approximately 120 employees. A very…
Photo: 33.3 x 23.4 cm
Photo and board: 48.4 x 35.4 cm
In the late 1930s Harris & Ewing was the largest photographic studio in the United States, with five physical locations and approximately 120 employees. A very…
Two metallophones, c.1910
Percy Grainger visited the musical halls of London in the decade before World War I, experiencing for the first time the sounds of the mallet percussion instruments used in jazz. To enrich his knowledge of these instruments, Grainger developed an…
Percy Grainger
Platinum print, hand-made paper.
Photo: 19.7 x 13.9 cm
Photo and paper: 37.8 x 26.2 cm
Helen Lohmann studied the violin but after a hand injury, turned to photography. The legendary Italian actress Eleanora Duse mentored Lohmann, and the…
Photo: 19.7 x 13.9 cm
Photo and paper: 37.8 x 26.2 cm
Helen Lohmann studied the violin but after a hand injury, turned to photography. The legendary Italian actress Eleanora Duse mentored Lohmann, and the…