Author: Rita H. MeadPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Henry Cowell's New Music, 1925-1936
Author: Rita H. MeadPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Henry Cowell's new music, 1925-1936
Author: Rita H. MeadHenry Cowell
Author: Joel SachsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190227923
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music is the first complete biography of one of the most innovative figures in twentieth-century American music. It explores in detail the complexities and impact of his life, work, and teachings.
Henry Cowell
Author: Joel SachsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199939187
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
Joel Sachs offers the first complete biography of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American music. Henry Cowell, a major musical innovator of the first half of the century, left a rich body of compositions spanning a wide range of styles. But as Sachs shows, Cowell's legacy extends far beyond his music. He worked tirelessly to create organizations such as the highly influential New Music Quarterly, New Music Recordings, and the Pan-American Association of Composers, through which great talents like Ruth Crawford Seeger and Charles Ives first became known in the US and abroad. As one of the first Western advocates for World Music, he used lectures, articles, and recordings to bring other musical cultures to myriad listeners and students including John Cage and Lou Harrison, who attributed their life work to Cowell's influence. Finally, Sachs describes the tragedy of Cowell's life, being sentenced to fifteen years in San Quentin -- of which he served four -- after pleading guilty to a morals charge that even the prosecutor felt was trivial. Providing a wealth of insight into Cowell's ideas and philosophy, Joel Sachs lays out a much-needed perspective on one of the giants of twentieth-century American music.
Henry Cowell's Musical Worlds
Author: Carol J. OjaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
New Musical Resources
Author: Henry CowellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521499743
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
For this 1996 edition David Nicholls provides an explanatory essay and annotations to Henry Cowell's classic text.
The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell
Author: Jeremy S. BrownPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351239244
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell studies the compositions for wind band by twentieth-century composer Henry Cowell, a significant and prolific figure in American fine art music from 1914-1965. The composer is noteworthy and controversial because of his radical early works, his interest in non-Western musics, and his retrogressive mature style—along with notoriety for his imprisonment in San Quentin on a morals charge. Eleven chapters are organized both topically and chronologically. An introduction, conclusion, series of eight appendices, bibliography, and discography complete this comprehensive study, along with an audio playlist of representative works, hosted on the CMS website.
Charles Ives's Concord
Author: Kyle GannPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252099362
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
In 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords, complex rhythm, and a seemingly chaotic structure, the so-called Concord Sonata confounded the recipients, as did the accompanying book, Essays before a Sonata . Kyle Gann merges exhaustive research with his own experience as a composer to reveal the Concord Sonata and the essays in full. Diffracting the twinned works into their essential aspects, Gann lays out the historical context that produced Ives's masterpiece and illuminates the arguments Ives himself explored in the Essays . Gann also provides a movement-by-movement analysis of the work's harmonic structure and compositional technique; connects the sonata to Ives works that share parts of its material; and compares the 1921 version of the Concord with its 1947 revision to reveal important aspects of Ives's creative process. A tour de force of critical, theoretical, and historical thought, Charles Ives's Concord provides nothing less than the first comprehensive consideration of a work at the heart of twentieth century American music.
Sexual Borderlands
Author: Kathleen KennedyPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 9780814209271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Percussion
Author: Russell HartenbergerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107093457
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Timpani traditions and beyond