Henry Cowell

Author : Joel Sachs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199939183

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Henry Cowell by Joel Sachs Pdf

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.

Author : Jeremy S. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351239240

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The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell by Jeremy S. Brown Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Hicks
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Composers
ISBN : 0252027515

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Henry Cowell, Bohemian by Michael Hicks Pdf

In this first full-length study of Henry Cowell, Michael Hicks shows how the maverick composer, writer, teacher, and performer built his career on the intellectual and aesthetic foundations of his parents, community, and teachers--and exemplified the essence of bohemian California. Author of the highly influential New Musical Resources and a teacher of John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Burt Bacharach, Cowell is regarded as an innovator, a rebel, and a genius. One of the first American composers to be celebrated for the novelty of his techniques, Cowell popularized a series of experimental piano-playing techniques that included pounding his fists and forearms on the keys and plucking the piano strings directly to achieve the exotic, dissonant sounds he desired. Henry Cowell, Bohemian traces the venerated experimentalist's radical ideas back to his teachers, including Charles Seeger, Samuel Seward, and E. G. Stricklen, the tightknit artistic communities in the San Francisco Bay area where he grew up and first started composing, and the immeasurable influence of his parents. Mining the published and unpublished writings of his mother, a politically motivated novelist from the Midwest who carefully monitored the pulse of her son's creativity from birth, Hicks provides insight into the composer's heritage, artistic inclinations, and childhood.Focusing on Cowell's formative and most prolific years, from his birth in 1897 through his incarceration on a morals conviction in the 1930s, Hicks examines the philosophical fervor that fueled his whirlwind compositions, and the ways his irrepressible bohemian spirit helped foster an appreciation in the United States and Europe for a new brand of American music.

Author : Joel Sachs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190227920

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Henry Cowell by Joel Sachs Pdf

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.

Author : Henry Cowell,Sidney Robertson Cowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Composers
ISBN : MINN:31951001951928L

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Charles Ives and His Music by Henry Cowell,Sidney Robertson Cowell Pdf

Author : Rita H. Mead,Henry Cowell,New Music Society of California
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042380712

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Henry Cowell's New Music, 1925-1936 by Rita H. Mead,Henry Cowell,New Music Society of California Pdf

Author : Henry Cowell
Publisher : McPherson
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026630488

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Essential Cowell by Henry Cowell Pdf

Foreword Magazine "Book of the Year" 2002 Gold Medalion This volume presents for the first time a generous selection from the more than 200 essays and articles written by one of the most original American composers and musical theorists of the twentieth century. There are articles on harmony, melody, notation and music history; essays on vocal innovation, folk music, and the intersection of music with other arts; reviews of concerts and recordings by contemporaries; notes on several of his own works, and several pieces on his life and experiences as a composer. Henry Cowell may be best known as a creator of "tone cluster" compositions, which he began writing while in his early teens, but his influence has been far broader and much deeper. As founder in 1925 of the New Music Society, he became a concert impresario for works by, among others, Carl Ruggles, Arnold Schoenberg, Charles Ives and Leo Ornstein; and publisher from 1927 to 1958 of New Music: A Quarterly of Musical Compositions. His many students included George Gershwin, John Cage, and Lou Harrison, but his interests extended beyond western classical traditions, and his radio program, "Music of the World's Peoples," introduced a large audience to world music long before it was fashionable. Just as Cowell's groundbreaking book of 1930, New Musical Resources, continues to inspire successive generations of composers, Essential Cowell is key to understanding the origins and expanding dimensions of contemporary music.

Author : Carol J. Oja,Ray Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Composers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008699907

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Henry Cowell's Musical Worlds by Carol J. Oja,Ray Allen Pdf

Author : Deborah Osterberg
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467142953

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Historic Tales of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park: Big Trees Grove by Deborah Osterberg Pdf

Visiting the redwoods in nineteenth-century California meant coming to Big Trees Grove, now part of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. This forest of giants in the Santa Cruz Mountains attained fame through the 1846 exploits of explorer John Charles Frémont, whose namesake tree still stands. Saved from the logger's axe by Joseph Warren Welch in 1867, these were the first coastal redwoods preserved for public recreation. As a world-renowned resort for sixty years, Big Trees Grove hosted thousands of visitors--from picnickers to presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt. Join author Deborah Osterberg as she recounts the stories of those first visitors and the awe-inspiring landscape they preserved for future generations.

Author : Joan Brainard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000031895750

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Henry Cowell's Long Arm by Joan Brainard Pdf

Author : Martha L. Manion
Publisher : Brooklyn, N.Y. : Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015018077712

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Writings about Henry Cowell by Martha L. Manion Pdf

Author : Henry Cowell
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1633619516

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Three Irish Legends by Henry Cowell Pdf

Instrumentation: Solo Piano

Author : Leonora Saavedra
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691169484

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Carlos Chávez and His World by Leonora Saavedra Pdf

Carlos Chávez (1899–1978) is the central figure in Mexican music of the twentieth century and among the most eminent of all Latin American modernist composers. An enfant terrible in his own country, Chávez was an integral part of the emerging music scene in the United States in the 1920s. His highly individual style—diatonic, dissonant, contrapuntal—addressed both modernity and Mexico's indigenous past. Chávez was also a governmental arts administrator, founder of major Mexican cultural institutions, and conductor and founder of the Orquesta Sinfónica de México. Carlos Chávez and His World brings together an international roster of leading scholars to delve into not only Chávez’s music but also the history, art, and politics surrounding his life and work. Contributors explore Chávez’s vast body of compositions, including his piano music, symphonies, violin concerto, late compositions, and Indianist music. They look at his connections with such artistic greats as Aaron Copland, Miguel Covarrubias, Henry Cowell, Silvestre Revueltas, and Paul Strand. The essays examine New York’s modernist scene, Mexican symphonic music, portraits of Chávez by major Mexican artists of the period, including Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo, and Chávez’s impact on El Colegio Nacional. A quantum leap in understanding Carlos Chávez and his milieu, this collection will stimulate further work in Latin American music and culture. The contributors are Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Amy Bauer, Leon Botstein, David Brodbeck, Helen Delpar, Christina Taylor Gibson, Susana González Aktories, Anna Indych-López, Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus, James Krippner, Rebecca Levi, Ricardo Miranda, Julián Orbón, Howard Pollack, Leonora Saavedra, Antonio Saborit, Stephanie Stallings, and Luisa Vilar Payá. Bard Music Festival 2015: Carlos Chávez and His World Bard College August 7-9 and August 14-16, 2015

Author : Simon Cooper
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030351953

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Modernism and the Practice of Proletarian Literature by Simon Cooper Pdf

This book tests critical reassessments of US radical writing of the 1930s against recent developments in theories of modernism and the avant-garde. Multidisciplinary in approach, it considers poetry, fiction, classical music, commercial art, jazz, and popular contests (such as dance marathons and bingo). Relating close readings to social and economic contexts over the period 1856–1952, it centers in on a key author or text in each chapter, providing an unfolding, chronological narrative, while at the same time offering nuanced updates on existing debates. Part One focuses on the roots of the 1930s proletarian movement in poetry and music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Part Two analyzes the output of proletarian novelists, considered alongside contemporaneous works by established modernist authors as well as more mainstream, popular titles.

Author : W. Anthony Sheppard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190072728

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Extreme Exoticism by W. Anthony Sheppard Pdf

To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation for over 150 years. This perceived difference has inspired fantasies--of both desire and repulsion--through which Japanese culture has profoundly impacted the arts and industry of the U.S. While the influence of Japan on American and European painting, architecture, design, theater, and literature has been celebrated in numerous books and exhibitions, the role of music has been virtually ignored until now. W. Anthony Sheppard's Extreme Exoticism offers a detailed documentation and wide-ranging investigation of music's role in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life. Presenting numerous American encounters with and representations of Japanese music and Japan, this book reveals how music functions in exotic representation across a variety of genres and media, and how Japanese music has at various times served as a sign of modernist experimentation, a sounding board for defining American music, and a tool for reshaping conceptions of race and gender. From the Tin Pan Alley songs of the Russo-Japanese war period to Weezer's Pinkerton album, music has continued to inscribe Japan as the land of extreme exoticism.