17 10 337 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/093160fb487a0f0f986a73ccabf4d7bd.JPG e1549304c11335ae3a09b9b56ac1eb46 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/0559668440375136d203a6695a8ab136.JPG 3e1016a4cea08a4534b749aec00ea455 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Double reed box single tracker bar (incomplete) Subject The topic of the resource Free Music Description An account of the resource Wood, plastic, string, tape, metal, masonite This ‘reed box’ is designed somewhat like a giant mechanically-operated mouth organ. A large strip of paper (not present), like a pianola roll with holes cut at calculated points, was to be rolled steadily over the multi-coloured plastic fins, below which sit an array of accordion reeds tuned micro-tonally to approximate the effect of gliding tones when adjacent reeds are played. The machine was to be operated with a vacuum cleaner providing the necessary suction to draw air through the holes in the paper roll and then through the reeds. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Percy Aldridge Grainger and Burnett Cross Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1954 Type The nature or genre of the resource Experimental instruments Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 06.0034 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/a37cb6016a998cf2e8dc7bfc1ea779d3.jpg 4252b39dc215ee70f2bd89bd77c018ad https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/a6b03f339e6856552f0b90fb550c61dc.JPG e3eae76e53176f19ab654f987632b73c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free Music model Subject The topic of the resource Free Music Description An account of the resource Wood, cardboard tubes, paper, string, tape, nails Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Percy Aldridge Grainger and Burnett Cross Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1954 Type The nature or genre of the resource Experimental instruments Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 01.0001 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/b272d8bd42a115a92b5b88079bb6673d.tif 3c485d35f7862bd81e85d514c2189e42 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oscillator-playing tone tool, 1st experiment Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Percy Grainger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Sketch drawn 23 November 1951. Instrument made 25 October 1951 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Grainger Estate Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Watercolour and ink on paper, 27.9 x 21.9cm Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 04.0182 Description An account of the resource Watercolour, ink and graphite on paper. Illustration of instrument (a modified sewing machine) with handwritten explanations and instructions. 14.2 x 25.7cm Excerpt from Percy Grainger's daybooks 1944-1960: Thursday 25 October 1951 ‘Red Letter day for Free Music [red ink] Burnett brot $15 oscilator, having recorded 2-, 3- & 4-part trials with it at home. . . . I got sewing machine & drill to play oscilator [red ink]’ Burnett Cross: ‘The oscillator was a Morse code practice device with a continuously variable pitch produced by a loudspeaker (in the case). Its single vacuum tube operated on house current (110 vols). PG at once set to work to find out how its pitch-knob could be controlled.’ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sketch for ‘Sea Songs’ style Subject The topic of the resource Sketch for ‘Sea Songs’ style Description An account of the resource Percy Grainger, Sketch for ‘Sea Songs’ style, composed 1907, worked out beatless for pianola, 26 May 1922 Ink on paper Grainger Museum Archive, MG 3/79: 1,2 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Percy Grainger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1922 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Ink on paper https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/1ffa7b106853c3f636105c24a8058530.jpg 9cda72a01b5341e8efb3a73c5d802d3e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Manuscript for ‘Train Music’ by Percy Grainger, 1901–07 Subject The topic of the resource Objects of Fame: Nellie Melba and Percy Grainger Description An account of the resource Grainger was a compositional radical, a fact that was not well known to a public accustomed to compositions like ‘Country Gardens’. ‘Train Music’ shows Grainger’s experimentation with irregular metres. His note at the top indicates that the rhythms were suggested by the jerky movement of an Italian train. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Percy Grainger Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grainger Museum Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1901–07 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Grainger Museum Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Grainger Museum Collection, SLI MG3/94 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/793138634062f29703bddfaceb22f687.jpg e69923c71e21ab10238cd71a38d2c347 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource List of Sendings to Grainger Museum, 1940 Description An account of the resource Card, paper, ink. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Percy Grainger Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grainger Museum Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/11f179d321bb57c39810cfdc9ff62a32.TIF 0015910aae4b4ec4b2532b54430d7cb8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Towel Clothes legend written by Percy Grainger for the Grainger Museum display Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Percy Grainger Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grainger Museum Collection Description An account of the resource 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 the towel clothes for the display in his Museum in the following terms: “Towel clothes made by Rose Grainger, Percy Grainger and Ella Grainger. The artist is not (as so many so called “inartistic” people seem to like to believe) a being supernaturally gifted with skill for some branch of art. To sing, make music, paint, draw, carve and dance is natural to all humanity, and it is only a lopsided civilisation, made on “specialisation”, that scares the “tame cats” of humanity into abandoning their natural right to an allround manysided life. The artist-type is not quite so tam-cat-like and more easily avoids what Tennyson called “the falsehood of extremes”. So the artist tries to keep the balance between normality and the slavish modes and crazes of the moment. In a licentious age he is a puritan; in a puritanical age he is a hedonist; in a dirty age he strives to be clean; in a drab age he is colour-seeking. My mother was devoted to Lafcadio Hearn’s stories of Japan and she worshipped many aspects of Japanese civilisation – for instance its cleanliness. And she and I often discussed the filthiness of European clothes: men’s coast in which the sweat of years is allowed to gather, our shoes that bring the dirt of the streets into our homes. And around 1910 (after we both had been fired by the beauty of Maori and South Sea island clothes and fabrics seen in museum in New Zealand and Australia) my mother mooted the idea of clothes made of Turkish towels – cool in summer, warm in the winter, and washable at all times. I leaped at the idea, seeing therein a chance to return to something comparable with the garish brilliance of the “skyblue and scarlet” garments of our Saxon and Scandinavian forefathers. I resented very much that the darkness and dullness of more southerly European fashions (after the Norman Conquest) had ousted the bright colourfulness natural to the north of Europe (think of the clothes made of bird’s feathers described in Lady Gregory’s translations of old Irish Tales). The result of my mother’s and my teamwork is the field of towel-clothing is seen in [this Grainger Museum display]. Between 1910 and 1914 I wore these clothes while giving many of my lessons in London and continually during my composing holiday in Denmark. In 1932 and 1933 my wife and I took up again this idea of clothing made of towelling and when in Australia in 1934 and 1935 we were amazed by the beauty of the bath towels on sale in Australia – some imported from England, Chekoslovakia [sic] and America, but most of them (and amont them the most beautiful ones) manufactured in Australia. Here was a chance to show what could be done with the beauty born of machinery – a beauty as rich and subtle, in its own way, as anything made by hand or loom. The problem was to use the towels with as little cutting and swing as possible, and in this skill my wife shone.” https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/b2c1233bc045cbfde51bbec829002abd.tif 1b02ea9536c9da4c75c0ef1e6c3015d9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the London Music Room, display legend created by Percy Grainger for the Grainger Museum, March 1956 Description An account of the resource Printed card Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Percy Grainger Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grainger Museum Collection Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1956 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/361e380cfb8506282287103e798a5e42.JPG 722ee16ed40a5a976d279cc888115fc5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fawn and cream fringed towelling shorts Description An account of the resource he top of the shorts are made of a woven material and the fringing (which starts mid thigh) is layered in a striped pattern on the right and checked pattern on the left leg. No fastening at the waist. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Percy Grainger Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grainger Museum Collection Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1934 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grainger Museum Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 04.5229 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/5a2408c2a4032b1b2f5118523b73b04b.JPG d4a8ef16b4082869fb8df230c4cce6cf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jacket created by Percy Grainger Description An account of the resource Black and white towelling cropped jacket with three quarter sleeves and centre front opening. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Percy Grainger Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grainger Museum Collection Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1934 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 04.5233