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Author : Matthew Donald Hébert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources and Rhythm written by Matthew Donald Hébert and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel Sachs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199939187
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Henry Cowell written by Joel Sachs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521499743
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (997 download)
Download or read book New Musical Resources written by Henry Cowell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this 1996 edition David Nicholls provides an explanatory essay and annotations to Henry Cowell's classic text.
Author : Michael Hicks
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252027512
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Henry Cowell, Bohemian written by Michael Hicks and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Russell Hartenberger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108492924
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm written by Russell Hartenberger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of rhythm and the richness of musical time from the perspective of performers, composers, analysts, and listeners.
Author : Henry Cowell
Publisher : McPherson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essential Cowell written by Henry Cowell and published by McPherson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Nicholls
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134419538
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Whole World of Music written by David Nicholls and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ellie M. Hisama
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521028434
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Gendering Musical Modernism written by Ellie M. Hisama and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the work of three significant American women composers of the twentieth century: Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer and Miriam Gideon. It offers information on both their lives and music and skillfully interweaves history and musical analysis in ways that both the specialist and the more general reader will find compelling. Ellie Hisama suggests that recognising the impact of a composer's identity on the music itself imparts valuable ways of hearing and understanding these works and breaks important new ground towards constructing a feminist music theory.
Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521662567
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (625 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music written by Nicholas Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521789684
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to John Cage written by David Nicholls and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Russell Hartenberger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108604951
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm written by Russell Hartenberger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the defining aspects of music is that it exists in time. From clapping to dancing, toe-tapping to head-nodding, the responses of musicians and listeners alike capture the immediacy and significance of the musical beat. This Companion explores the richness of musical time through a variety of perspectives, surveying influential writings on the topic, incorporating the perspectives of listeners, analysts, composers, and performers, and considering the subject across a range of genres and cultures. It includes chapters on music perception, visualizing rhythmic notation, composers' writings on rhythm, rhythm in jazz, rock, and hip-hop. Taking a global approach, chapters also explore rhythmic styles in the music of India, Africa, Bali, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Indigenous music of North and South America. Readers will gain an understanding of musicians' approaches to performing complex rhythms of contemporary music, and revealing insights into the likely future of rhythm in music.
Author : Joel Sachs
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195108957
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Henry Cowell written by Joel Sachs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195162579
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Making Music Modern written by Carol J. Oja and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recreates an exciting and productive period in which creative artists felt they were witnessing the birth of a new age. Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, George Gershwin, Roy Harris, and Virgil Thomson all began their careers then, as did many of their less widely recognized compatriots. While the literature and painting of the 1920's have been amply chronicled, music has not received such treatment. Carol Oja's book sets the growth of American musical composition against parallel developments in American culture, provides a guide for the understanding of the music, and explores how the notion of the concert tradition, as inherited from Western Europe, was challenged and revitalized through contact with American popular song, jazz, and non-Western musics.
Author : Peter Alexander Thoegersen
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000631303
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music written by Peter Alexander Thoegersen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces polytempic polymicrotonality as a new musical aesthetic. It proposes music with more than one microtonal tuning system and discusses examples from the literature to give an historic framework showing that this tendency has been present throughout human musical history. Polytempo is a tool for which polymicrotonal structures can function in relief from its background, and it acts as a frame, or ground structure, that is multidimensional, akin to the advancement of perspective in Renaissance art. The book has historic significance as it is the only book of its category, or genre, in music that features polymicrotonality in music composition or production. It displays examples of music literature for musical precedence in this area, focusing on Charles Ives’s Universe Symphony, unfinished since 1925.
Author : Ton de Leeuw
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053567658
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Music of the Twentieth Century written by Ton de Leeuw and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. Now his renowned chronicle Music of the Twentieth Century is offered here in a newly revised English-language edition. Music of the Twentieth Century goes beyond a historical survey with its lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles, and terminologies of twentieth-century music. De Leeuw draws on his experience as a composer, teacher, and music scholar of non-European music traditions, including Indian, Indonesian, and Japanese music, to examine how musical innovations that developed during the twentieth century transformed musical theory, composition, and scholarly thought around the globe.
Author : Hugo Weisgall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Music of Henry Cowell written by Hugo Weisgall and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harald Krebs
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195169468
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Fantasy Pieces written by Harald Krebs and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a theory of metrical conflict and applies it to the music of Schumann, thereby placing the composer's distinctive metrical style in full focus. It describes the various categories of metrical conflict that characterize Schumann's work, investigates how states of conflict are introduced and then manipulated and resolved in his compositions, and studies the interaction of such metrical conflict with form, pitch structure, and text. Throughout the text, Krebs intersperses his own theoretical assertions with Schumannesque dialogues between Florestan and Eusebius, who comment on the theory at hand while also discussing and illustrating relevant aspects of "their" metrical practices.
