The author of "New Musical Resources", Henry Cowell's works include innovative single movement vocal or instrumental pieces, 20 symphonies, five string quartets, and 8 suites of various kinds. He was also innovative in his use of instruments from different cultures (jalatarang, dragonmouths, Japanese wind glasses, the shakuhachi flute) and in this book, Nicholls brings together a symposium of articles and reminiscences dealing exclusively with Cowell.
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"I have never deliberately concerned myself with developing a distinctive "personal" style, but only with the excitement and pleasure of writing music as beautifully, as warmly, and as interestingly as I can."
-Henry Cowell
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To musicians and music lovers familiar with the norms of Western art music, Henry Cowell must appear a bewildering figure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Associated Music Publishers, New Musical Resources, Henry Cowell, New York, San Quentin, Sidney Cowell, Peters Corporation, Musical Quarterly, San Francisco, Worlds of Ideas, Charles Ives, Quartet Romantic, United Quartet, John Cage, Mosaic Quartet, The Nature of Melody, United States, Lou Harrison, Simultaneous Mosaics, Stanford University, Thanksgiving Psalm, Dynamic Motion, Short Meter, The Southern Harmony, Charles Seeger New!
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To musicians and music lovers familiar with the norms of Western art music, Henry Cowell must appear a bewildering figure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
invention mentality, fuguing tune, cello recitative, fuging tune, surface rhythms, overtone series, tone clusters, elastic form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Associated Music Publishers, New Musical Resources, Henry Cowell, New York, San Quentin, Sidney Cowell, Peters Corporation, Musical Quarterly, San Francisco, Worlds of Ideas, Charles Ives, Quartet Romantic, United Quartet, John Cage, Mosaic Quartet, The Nature of Melody, United States, Lou Harrison, Simultaneous Mosaics, Stanford University, Thanksgiving Psalm, Dynamic Motion, Short Meter, The Southern Harmony, Charles Seeger New!
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- New Musical Resources by Henry Cowell on 17 pages
- Charles Ives and His Music, by Henry, Cowell on 4 pages
- Essays Before a Sonata, The Majority, and Other Writings by Charles Ives on page 176, page 215, and Back Matter
- A Theory of Evolving Tonality (Da Capo Press music reprint series) by Joseph Yasser on page 163, and Back Matter
- The Dead Sea Scrolls by Millar Burrows on page 116, and Back Matter
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- Locating East Asia in Western Art Music (Music Culture) by Yayoi Uno Everett in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Italian Opera Since 1945 (Contemporary Music Studies) by Raymond Fearn in Back Matter
- Henry Cowell, Bohemian (Music in American Life) by Michael Dustin Hicks in Back Matter
- Readings in Music and Artificial Intelligence (Contemporary Music Studies) by Eduardo Reck Miranda in Back Matter
- Jani Christou: The Works and Temperament of a Greek Composer (Contemporary Music Studies) by Anna M Lucciano in Back Matter
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