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Rose Grainger aged 18, 1879.
Printing-out paper print.
Photo: 9.2 x 5.7 cm
Phot and board: 10.2 x 6.2 cm
Portrait of Rose Grainger when she was a young lady. This photograph depicts her side profile and she is wearing a dark collar high necked dress with a row of buttons…
Photo: 9.2 x 5.7 cm
Phot and board: 10.2 x 6.2 cm
Portrait of Rose Grainger when she was a young lady. This photograph depicts her side profile and she is wearing a dark collar high necked dress with a row of buttons…
Rose Grainger aged 18
Printing-out paper print.
Photo: 9.2 x 5.7 cm
Photo and board: 10.2 x 6.2 cm
Portrait of Rose Grainger, mother of Percy Grainger, as a young women. This photograph depicts her side profile and she is wearing a dark collar high necked dress…
Photo: 9.2 x 5.7 cm
Photo and board: 10.2 x 6.2 cm
Portrait of Rose Grainger, mother of Percy Grainger, as a young women. This photograph depicts her side profile and she is wearing a dark collar high necked dress…
Rose Grainger
Silver gelatin print.
50.7 x 40.5 cm
Portrait of Rose Grainger showing her profile. She is wearing a dark coloured dress with lace trimmings near the collar. She is also wearing a metal necklace.
50.7 x 40.5 cm
Portrait of Rose Grainger showing her profile. She is wearing a dark coloured dress with lace trimmings near the collar. She is also wearing a metal necklace.
Rose Grainger
Printing-out paper print.
15.6 x 11.2 cm
Portrait of Rose Grainger in New Zealand. She is facing the camera and is wearing a large round brim hat with feathers and a v neck dress. Rose Grainger is captured here wearing a quintessential…
15.6 x 11.2 cm
Portrait of Rose Grainger in New Zealand. She is facing the camera and is wearing a large round brim hat with feathers and a v neck dress. Rose Grainger is captured here wearing a quintessential…
Roger Quilter, c.1904
Platinum print
Photo: 14.4 x 9.9 cm
Photo and board: 31.0 x 21.6 cm
This portrait of Roger Quilter shows him sitting in front of a piano. The inscription on the photo reads: With love from Roger. This photograph has been mounted on card.
Photo: 14.4 x 9.9 cm
Photo and board: 31.0 x 21.6 cm
This portrait of Roger Quilter shows him sitting in front of a piano. The inscription on the photo reads: With love from Roger. This photograph has been mounted on card.
Robe worn by Nellie Melba as Desdemona in Otello, c.1900
Melba’s star status was reflected in the high quality of her opera costumes. This sumptuous purple velvet robe was created by the House of Worth, the leaders of Parisian haute couture. Trimmed with ermine and lined with cream floral silk damask, this…
Reed box tone-tool
Steel, brass, wood, accordion reeds, blower fans, linear bearings.
In their original Reed box experiments, Grainger and
Cross approximated the effect of gliding musical
pitches by using closely-spaced microtones. They
detuned harmonium reeds to…
In their original Reed box experiments, Grainger and
Cross approximated the effect of gliding musical
pitches by using closely-spaced microtones. They
detuned harmonium reeds to…
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…
R. H. Mayland & Son, New York, USA (instrument makers)
Metal marimba, early twentieth century
Grainger used this marimba for performances of his Tribute to Foster, exploiting the design innovation that enabled single notes and resonators to be removed from the instrument for playing individually. Grainger wrote instructions, such as ‘violin…
Promotional page for Melba–Kubelik Transcontinental Tour with photograph of Nellie Melba and Jan Kubelik, Wheeling, West Virginia, 1913–14
Melba and Czech violinist, Jan Kubelik, undertook a joint concert tour of the United Kingdom in 1912–13, followed by this tour in the United States and Canada in 1913–14. The UK tour ran from October 1912 to August 1913 with Melba performing in two…