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Author : Rita H. Mead
Release : 1981
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Henry Cowell's New Music, 1925-1936 by : Rita H. Mead
Download or read book Henry Cowell's New Music, 1925-1936 written by Rita H. Mead. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rita H. Mead
Release : 2002
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Book Synopsis Henry Cowell's new music, 1925-1936 by : Rita H. Mead
Download or read book Henry Cowell's new music, 1925-1936 written by Rita H. Mead. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel Sachs
Release : 2012-07-09
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Henry Cowell by : Joel Sachs
Download or read book Henry Cowell written by Joel Sachs. This book was released on 2012-07-09. 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 : Kyle Gann
Release : 2017-05-16
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 362/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Charles Ives's Concord by : Kyle Gann
Download or read book Charles Ives's Concord written by Kyle Gann. This book was released on 2017-05-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Kathleen Kennedy
Release : 2003
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 271/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sexual Borderlands by : Kathleen Kennedy
Download or read book Sexual Borderlands written by Kathleen Kennedy. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
