The Grainger Journal is a twice-yearly publication devoted to the study of the music, life and cultural contribution of Percy Grainger. The Grainger Journal aims to promote Grainger scholarship and welcomes submissions from established academics, new entrants to the field, and those who simply admire the works of Percy Grainger. Notes for contributors are available here.
Print and digital copies of the journal are distributed free of charge to members of the Percy Grainger Society. Non-members may purchase individual print copies via our distributor, Lulu.com.
Digital copies of The Grainger Journal issued between 1978 and 2002 can be freely accessed in The Grainger Journal Archive. The history of The Grainger Journal is available here.
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Latest Issue
Volume 22, Number 1
July 2026
ISSN: 0141-5085
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Contents
Editorial
News from the Percy Grainger Society
News from the Grainger Museum
Reflections on the Approaches to Performance Grainger Symposium Percy Grainger’s Inner Fire
Teresa R. Balough
Remembered Deeds, Idealized Deeds: Musical Portraiture in Grainger’s “Horkstow Grange” from Lincolnshire Posy
Christopher Ramos
The Juba Triangle: Grainger, Dett, and Sousa
David Reynolds
Letting in the Jungle: Percy Grainger’s Kipling “Jungle Book” Cycle
Teresa R. Balough
The Folk Music and Free Music of Percy Grainger: Fruits of the Same Tree
Chalon Ragsdale
The Rainbow: The Genesis of a New “Grainger” Work
Allen Feinstein
Symposium Paper Abstracts
Symposium Concerts
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Volume 21, Number 2
January 2025
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Editorial News from the Percy Grainger Society News from the Grainger Museum Tribute to John Bird
An Interview with John Bird
Sarah Kirby Recording the Band and Orchestra Music of Percy Grainger on Mercury Records: Insights from Correspondence between Frederick Fennell and Percy Grainger (1955–1960)
Brian A. Silvey Impressions of Art in Europe
Percy Grainger
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Volume 21, Number 1
January 2025
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Editorial News from the Percy Grainger Society News from the Grainger Museum
A General Study of the Manifold Nature of Music
Percy Aldridge Grainger
Percy Grainger's Work for the Australian Broadcasting Commission after 1935: Memories, Hopes and Frustrations
Kathleen E. Nelson
12 Illustrated Lectures by Percy Grainger in Melbourne
Percy Aldridge Grainger
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Volume 20, Number 2
January 2025
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Editorial
News from the Percy Grainger Society
News from the Grainger Museum
Tracing Two Paintings by Jelka Delius
Andrew J. Boyle
Expanding the Grainger Library of Sampled Sounds (GLOSS) for Autistic and Neurodivergent People
Andrew Hugill
Grainger Amplified
Sarah Kirby and Heather Gaunt
Ten Grainger Museum Legends
Percy Aldridge Grainger
Book Review: The Life and Work of Percy Aldridge Grainger: Till Life Become Fire
Peter John Tregear
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Volume 20, Number 1
July 2024
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Editorial
News from the Percy Grainger Society
News from the Grainger Museum
The Love-Life of Helen and Paris
Percy Aldridge Grainger
Two Months with my Sweetheart
Ella Viola Ström
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Volume 19, Number 2
January 2024
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Editorial
News from the Percy Grainger Society
News from the Grainger Museum
A Historic Moment: The Last Pictures of Edvard Grieg
Tønnes H. Gundersen
Harriet Lanier v. Percy Grainger on Choral Music for New York, 1930: A Documentary Study
Malcolm Gillies and David Pear
Percy Grainger, Alfred Hill and the Construction of Museological Biography
Sarah Kirby
Chosen Gems for Wind: Grainger's Contribution to the Wind Band Literature in Early Music
Stephen G. Carpenter
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Volume 19, Number 1
July 2023
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Editorial
News from the Percy Grainger Society
Percy Grainger: How American was He?
Malcolm Gillies
Nordic English
Teresa Balough
What Effect is Jazz Likely to Have Upon the Music of the Future?
Percy Aldridge Grainger
Percy Grainger and Duke Ellington at NYU:
Grainger's Rather Odd Relationship with Jazz
Cora Sowa
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Volume 18, Number 2
January 2023
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Editorial
News from the Percy Grainger Society
Grainger's Contribution to The Etude Magazine 1915–1943
Barry Peter Ould
Sketch For an Article About My Music For BBC
Percy Aldridge Grainger
Personality in Art
Perch Aldridge Grainger
PG's Round Letters to Friends, Jan 18, 1943
Percy Aldridge Grainger
Tone-Cribs: An attempt to show how composers "lift" musical ideas from each other, & from themselves
Percy Aldridge Grainger
Free Music Machine Conservation
Paul Jackson, Anne Ocone, Kerith Koss Schrager
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Volume 18, Number 1
July 2022
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Editorial
News from the Percy Grainger Society
Grainger and Greatness
David Stanhope
The Art of Agony: A Voice Portrait of Percy Grainger
Robert Davidson
Percy Grainger's Aleatoric Adventures: Towards Random Round
Paul Jackson
Percy Grainger's Canadian Repertoire: R. Nathaniel Dett, Violet Archer and Godfrey Ridout
Glen Carruthers
Percy Grainger and the Schubert Choir of Brantford, Ontario: The Evolution of a Concert Program in Six Previously Unpublished Letters
Glen Carruthers
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Volume 17, Number 2
January 2022
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Editorial
News from the Percy Grainger Society
Burnett as We Saw Him
Teresa Balough
Natalie Curtis, Busoni, and Grainger
Cora Angier Sowa
Percy Grainger and the Intimate Saxophone
Paul Cohen
The Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne, Through the Lens of Tertiary Education and Research
Heather Gaunt, Anthony Lyons, Rochus Hinkel
CD Review: The Art of Agony: Australian Music for Two Pianists
Dana Paul Perna
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Volume 17, Number 1
July 2021
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Editorial
‘The Art of Agony’: Aspects of Negativity in Grainger’s Music
Peter Tregear
The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart: A Conductor’s Journey
Joanne Heaton
Reclaiming The Lads of Wamphray Ballad for a New Generation
Chalon Ragsdale
Grainger’s The Lads of Wamphray Ballad: Reimagining a Great Work to Work
Stephen Caldwell
The Power of Place: The Percy Grainger Home and Studio
Susan Edwards Colson
Folk-Songs and Their Singers
Percy Grainger
Book Review: Distant Dreams: The Correspondence of Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross 1946–60
Andrew Hugill
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