1. Henry Cowell - Biography Biography, works, selected discography, article, review.Category Arts Music Composition Composers C Cowell, Henry......Home Composers Henry cowell henry Cowell. updated 19 October 1999.Henry Cowell. A tireless musical explorer and inventor, Cowell http://www.schirmer.com/composers/cowell_bio.html

Home Composers Henry Cowell updated 19 October 1999 Henry Cowell A tireless musical explorer and inventor, Cowell was born 11 March 1897 in Menlo Park, California, where he grew up surrounded by a wide variety of Oriental musical traditions, his father's Irish folk heritage, and his mother's Midwestern folktunes. Already composing in his early teens, Cowell began formal training at age 16 with Charles Seeger at the University of California. Further studies focused primarily on world music cultures. His use of varied sound materials, experimental compositional procedures, and a rich palette colored by multiple non-European and folk influences revolutionized American music and popularized, most notably, the tone cluster as an element in compositional design. In addition to tone clusters evident in such works as Advertisement and Tiger , Cowell experimented with the "string piano" in works like The Aeolian Harp and The Banshee where strings are strummed or plucked inside the piano. Studies of the musical cultures of Africa, Java, and North and South India enabled Cowell to stretch and redefine Western notions of melody and rhythm; mastery of the gamelan and the theory of gamelan composition led to further explorations with exotic instruments and percussion. Later, Cowell developed the concept of indeterminancy or "elastic form" in works like the Mosaic Quartet (where performers determine the order and alternation of movements).

2. EMORY UNIVERSITY: 20th-Century Music:Henry Cowell Short biography, including a list of works.Category Arts Music Composition Composers C Cowell, Henry......HENRY COWELL(18971965). First to develop and utilize the tone clusteras a sonority, including use for non-programmatic purposes; http://www.emory.edu/MUSIC/ARNOLD/cowell_content.html

HENRY COWELL(1897-1965) First to develop and utilize the tone cluster as a sonority, including use for non-programmatic purposes Early experiments with noise, unfixed pitches, and open forms He pioneered playing and plucking the strings of the piano under the lid (as well as scratching and brushing the strings) One of the first to use indeterminate techniques in allowing the performers to choose the order of the movement of his Third String Quartet "Mosaic Quartet" in 1935 He also used Asian instruments in some of his compositions. He was an early and outspoken supporter of Charles Ives and followed in the Ivesian tradition of experimentalism. He was one of the teachers of John Cage. Founded the New Musical Quarterly in 1927. With Leon Theremin invented the Rhythmicon an instrument which produced 16 different rhythms correctly at the same time. Works Opera O'Higgins of Chile (1949) Choral The Thistle Flower [women's voices] (1928) Fire and Ice [male voices and band] (1942) American Muse (1943) To America (1946) The Road to Tomorrow (1947) Orchestra 20 Symphonies (1918-1965). . . [No. 11 "Seven Rites of Music"]

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Find: The Database Home Page < Couper,Monroe To the Index Cowell,Henry >> Covell,Grant Sex Male Comments Circus game kit Written Duration Comments Publisher American Music Center Inst. Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Trombone, Violin, Viola, Double Bass Grade Comments Four histories Written Duration Comments Publisher American Music Center Inst. Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet in Bb, Trombone, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass Grade Comments In der Nacht Written Duration Comments Text by Franz Kafka (1883-1924). Publisher American Music Center Inst. Clarinet in Bb, Bass Clarinet, Snare Drum, Baritone, Viola, Cello Grade Comments Sonnet with shadows Written Duration Comments Publisher American Music Center Inst. Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet in Bb, Trombone, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass Grade Comments Prepared on Thu Sep 5 21:13:16 2002

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COWELL henry - DANCING WITH HENRY dancing with henry: new discoveries in the music of henry cowell [mode] suite for small orchestra (1934); heroic dance (1931); sound form no.1 (1937); three ritournelles (1939); reel no.2 (1934); dance of sport (1931); suite for woodwind quintet (1934); four combinations for three instruments (1924); atlantis (1926) *the california parallele ensemble *cowell quintet * picasso ensemble - rec. 2000 Price: £14.99 Listing # cowell View Products Modern Classical Order Form Sound 323 323 Archway Road Highgate London

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9. Henry Cowell Henry Cowell. Henry Cowell (18871965) was a leading composer, critic andeducator who worked largely in the experimental vein of American music. http://www.mcphersonco.com/authors/cowell.html

Henry Cowell Henry Cowell (1887-1965) was a leading composer, critic and educator who worked largely in the experimental vein of American music. He was born in California and attended Stanford University. Throughout the 1950s he lived in New York City and upstate New York, and taught at the New School. Through his journal (New Music Quarterly), his concert promotions, and his WBAI-New York radio programs, he is credited with having “rediscovered” Charles Ives, published Carl Ruggles, and effectively promoted Edgard Varese. Aside from his famous book, New Musical Resources , however, Henry Cowell’s many essays, reviews, manifestos, and other writings have never been gathered and published in book form. In the thirty-five years since Cowell’s death, he has attained a significant position as a composer (there are over 130 CD recordings available); live concerts featuring Cowell works are no longer uncommon; and an authorized biography is being written. Poet, essayist, composer, performance artist and a founding member of Fluxus, Dick Higgins was a leading proponent of “Intermedia,” which he named. Through his publishing house, Something Else Press, he issued from 1964 to 1973 the Wrst “artist’s books,” including works by Emmett Williams, Claes Oldenburg, and Merce Cunningham, and reissued six books by Gertrude Stein (notably

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12. Henry Cowell - Wikipedia Henry Cowell. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Henry Cowell (March11, 1897 December 10, 1965) was an American composer and teacher. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cowell

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help Henry Cowell From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Henry Cowell March 11 December 10 ) was an American composer and teacher. He is considered one of the most influential of early 20th century American composers. Cowell was born in Menlo Park, California into a rural family. He was encouraged to study music by his parents, and played the violin from an early age. He began to compose in his teens, producing the piano piece The Tides of Manaunaun , which calls for the pianist to use his forearm to play many notes at once. This is one of the first uses of the cluster chord in music, and he continued to use it liberally in his later works. Despite his experimental leanings, he received no formal musical education (and little education of any kind) until he attended the University of California, Berkeley

13. Henry Cowell As Theorist And Critic the cynics claim of John Cage may be truer of henry cowell that he is more important for his writings and ideas than http://home.earthlink.net/~kgann/Cowell.html

Subversive Prophet: Henry Cowell as Theorist and Critic By Kyle Gann Excerpts from the article published in The Whole World of Music: A Henry Cowell Symposium , David Nicholls, editor (Harwood Academic Press, 1997) What the cynics claim of John Cage may be truer of Henry Cowell: that he is more important for his writings and ideas than for his music. In Cage's case, those of us deeply attached to Sonatas and Interludes , the 1950 String Quartet, Music of Changes Hymnkus Europeras I-V , and other beautiful and influential compositions find the cliche ludicrously unfounded. Applied to Cowell, though, the statement might hold water, if only because Cowell's compositional output has never become as well known or widely distributed as Cage's. Though often impressive, in the role of composer Cowell appears as a minor figure in the august company of Ives, Stravinsky, Varese, Schoenberg, and others of his time. As a musical thinker, however, and theorist of new musical possibilities, he is a giant in a virtual desert, towering above all his contemporaries with the possible exception of Schoenberg (and at present, Cowell's speculations look to be more prophetic and enduring than Schoenberg's, whose influence is no longer in the ascendant). It is not difficult to argue that Cowell was the least tradition-bound, most original musical thinker and theorist of his era. Much of what was best in Cowell's legacy can be found in his writings and publications: his theory books New Musical Resources and

14. HENRY COWELL BIOGRAPHY Glance at cowell's vital statistics, and access a discography of his works, including Ancient Desert Drone and Adagio for Cello and Thuderstick. henry cowell BIOGRAPHY. henry cowell. Born 11 March, 1887 Menlo Park, California http://www.eyeneer.com/CCM/Composers/Cowell/cowbio.html

HENRY COWELL BIOGRAPHY Henry Cowell Born: 11 March, 1887 - Menlo Park, California Died: 10 December, 1965 - New York City This section of Eyeneer Music Archives is currently under re-construction and will be active again on December 20, 1998. Return to COMPOSERS Eyeneer Music Archives.

15. M.L.A. Obituary Index--Cowell, Henry Obituary citations, dictionary citations.Category Arts Music Composition Composers C cowell, henry...... http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/music/mla/necrology/entries/1965/mainindx/0032

Cowell, Henry American composer, died 10 Dec 1965, in Shady, NY Obituary Citations Musical Times , Feb. (1966) p145 New York Herald Tribune , 11 Dec New York Times , 11 Dec Dictionary Citations AlgemenaMuziek-Encyclopedie Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1984 and after, 7th edition unless otherwise specified) Blom, Eric. Everyman's Dictionary of Music Grove, George Sir. Dictionary of Music and Musicians Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart Musik-Lexikon Sartori, Claudio. Enciclopedia della Musica (1963) Thompson, Oscar. International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1964) Information from 1966 M.L.A. Obituary Index

16. Henry Cowell's Musical Worlds henry cowell's Musical Worlds. updated 25 February 1997 henry cowell'sMusical Worlds Centennial Festival March 12 ISAM Symposium http://www.schirmer.com/news/mar97/cowell.html

Henry Cowell's Musical Worlds updated 25 February 1997 "Henry Cowell's Musical Worlds" Centennial Festival March 12 ISAM Symposium - The Many Worlds of Henry Cowell Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY March 13 CUNY Symposium - Ruth Crawford Seeger and Cowell's Legacy CUNY Graduate Center, New York City March 13 Concert: Merkin Concert Hall New York City March 14 Cowell Conference Sessions I and II: "Remembering Henry Cowell," Lou Harrison, keynote speaker Concert: Continuum Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library of the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, New York City March 15 Cowell Conference Sessions III and IV Concert: Colorado String Quartet, Musicians' Accord New School for Social Research, New York City March 16 Concert: World Music Institute Symphony Space, New York City March 18, 25 Concert: West Meets East Cooper Union; 92nd Street Y New York City G. Schirmer/AMP Home Page Back to March 1997 Schirmer News For perusal materials, please contact: G. Schirmer Promotion Department 257 Park Ave South, 20th floor

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FE Home New Releases Browse Catalog Info ... Index of Artists Browse by Artist: COWELL, HENRY Artist: COWELL, HENRY Title: Dancing With Henry Label: MODE Format: CD Price: Catalog #: MODE 101 "Some of the most revered compositions of the twentieth century arose from the collaboration of composers and choreographers. Henry Cowell sought solutions that would treat both art forms with equal respect. Works on this disc the majority of which are recorded for the first time, many from unpublished manuscripts were composed for Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman (Dance of Sport), Bonnie Bird, and Martha Graham (Heroic Dance and Suite for Woodwind Quintet)." Artist: COWELL, HENRY Title: Mosaic Label: MODE Format: Price: Catalog #: MODE 72 Collection of Cowell's chamber music, performed by the Musician's Accord and the Colorado String Quartet. "Included are the three famous early string quartets, the open-form '26 Simultaneous Mosaics' heard in 3 very different performances, the infamous 'Polyphonica' for 12 instruments, the baroque-influenced 'Quartet of 1962,' and the Asian influenced 'Return' for percussion ensemble." Artist: COWELL, HENRY

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