For permission to reproduce Grainger's essays we acknowledge the kind
agency of Stewart Manville (White Plains, New York) representing the
Estate of Percy Grainger. Oxford University Press has granted permis-
sion for the reprinting of Grainger's three articles which appeared in the
Music Quarterly (Essays 6, 29, and 37).

The texts of most essays found in this volume have been prepared from
materials held in the Grainger Museum at The University of Melbourne,
Australia. We are grateful to the Baillieu Librarian and successive curators
at the Grainger Museum for granting us access to archival holdings. Kay
Dreyfus and the late Rosemary Florrimell generously offered their advice
and research support, as, at various times, did Janice Whiteside, Helen
Reeves Lawrence, and Alessandro Servadei.

This project received financial assistance from the Danish Humanities
Research Council, the English Department and Humanities Faculty at
The University of Copenhagen and, in 1994-5, the Australian Research
Council. We express our debt to Bronwen Arthur, who was employed at
The University of Queensland as an ARC research assistant and greatly
assisted in the preparation of texts and the compilation of information for
annotations. To David Pear, we are indebted for specialist advice, assist-
ance with the Chronology, indexing, and preparation of the Appendix,
the first comprehensive List of Grainger's Writings.

We are also grateful to the following for assistance: Michael Atkinson,
Teresa Balough, John Bird, Colin Brumby, Sidsel Brun (granddaughter of
Grainger's agent in Trondheim), the late Burnett Cross, Jennifer Hill, Paul
Kildea, Neil Lovett, Sandra McColl, Andrew McCredie, Margit Müller,
Kathleen Nelson, the late K. K. Nygaard, Simon Perry, Svend Ravnkilde
(Danish Music Information Centre), Ronald Stevenson, the late Johannes
Tang Kristensen, Penelope Thwaites, David Walker, and colleagues from
The University of Copenhagen, including Ilda Hallas-Moller (Finnish
Library), Lene Άstermark-Johansen, Dennis Omϕ (English Department
Library), Chris. Sanders ( Arnemagnaean Institute) and Gunnar Syréhn
( Institute for Nordic Philology).

M. G.

B. C. R.

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