Henry Cowell S Musical Worlds

Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134419463

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Whole World of Music by David Nicholls Pdf

It is impossible to contain Henry Cowell within the boundaries of the consistencies of forms, styles, ensembles, and genres of Western art music. John Cage once described Cowell as the open sesame for new music in America. Of the thousand or so works catalogued by William Lichtenwanger, the majority are formally innovative single movement vocal or instrumental pieces, although there are 20 symphonies, five string quartets, and 8 suites of various kinds. Cowell was also innovative in his use of instruments from different cultures (jalatarang, dragonmouths, Japanese wind glasses, the shakuhachi flute) and in this book, Lou Harrison writes of Cowell's adventurous promotion of automobile junkyards for the finding of new sounds. In addition, Cowell was a tireless advocate of new music in the West, and Musics from other cultures worldwide, as a teacher, lecturer, publisher, and performer. He founded New Music Quarterly in 1927, wrote the influential book Ne In this major book of articles

Author : Joel Sachs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Michael Hicks
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Rita H. Mead,Henry Cowell,New Music Society of California
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Joel Sachs
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195108958

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Henry Cowell by Joel Sachs Pdf

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.

Author : Carol J. Oja,Ray Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : David Nicholls
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134419531

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Whole World of Music by David Nicholls Pdf

It is impossible to contain Henry Cowell within the boundaries of the consistencies of forms, styles, ensembles, and genres of Western art music. John Cage once described Cowell as the open sesame for new music in America. Of the thousand or so works catalogued by William Lichtenwanger, the majority are formally innovative single movement vocal or instrumental pieces, although there are 20 symphonies, five string quartets, and 8 suites of various kinds. Cowell was also innovative in his use of instruments from different cultures (jalatarang, dragonmouths, Japanese wind glasses, the shakuhachi flute) and in this book, Lou Harrison writes of Cowell's adventurous promotion of automobile junkyards for the finding of new sounds. In addition, Cowell was a tireless advocate of new music in the West, and Musics from other cultures worldwide, as a teacher, lecturer, publisher, and performer. He founded New Music Quarterly in 1927, wrote the influential book Ne In this major book of articles

Author : Jeremy S. Brown
Publisher : CMS Sourcebooks in American Music
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Band music
ISBN : 0815375735

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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 [Publisher description].

Author : Henry Cowell
Publisher : McPherson
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Rita H. Mead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:633798826

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Henry Cowell's new music, 1925-1936 by Rita H. Mead Pdf

Author : Joel Sachs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : W. Anthony Sheppard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,5 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.

Author : Yayoi Uno Everett,Frederick Lau
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0819566624

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Locating East Asia in Western Art Music by Yayoi Uno Everett,Frederick Lau Pdf

How does a piece of music embody the sound of a different culture?

Author : Jeremy S. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Kyle Gann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520935934

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Music Downtown by Kyle Gann Pdf

This collection represents the cream of the more than five hundred articles written for the Village Voice by Kyle Gann, a leading authority on experimental American music of the late twentieth century. Charged with exploring every facet of cutting-edge music coming out of New York City in the 1980s and '90s, Gann writes about a wide array of timely issues that few critics have addressed, including computer music, multiculturalism and its thorny relation to music, music for the AIDS crisis, the brand-new art of electronic sampling and its legal implications, symphonies for electric guitars, operas based on talk shows, the death of twelve-tone music, and the various streams of music that flowed forth from minimalism. In these articles—including interviews with Yoko Ono, Philip Glass, Glenn Branca, and other leading musical figures—Gann paints a portrait of a bristling era in music history and defines the scruffy, vernacular field of Downtown music from which so much of the most fertile recent American music has come.