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Cowell, Henry Dixon
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Henry Cowell Biography 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...Obituary citations, dictionary citations.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/dept.../entries/1965/mainindx/0032.html
Excerpts of article from The Whole World of Music: A Henry Cowell Symposium, David Nicholls, editor (Harwood Academic Press, 1997)
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Henry Cowell as theorist and Critic 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...A comparision of Cowell and Stockhausen, from "Karlheinz Stockhausen's New Morphology of Musical Time" by Christopher K. Koenigsberg
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Stockhausen's New Morphology of Musical Time, Comparison of Cowell with Stockhausen: C. Koenigsberg December 1991 Cowell discusses the overtone series at length. He applies the overtone series to set up scales of metre, duration, and tempo, which are, in his treatment, the three elements that make up rhythm It is difficult to find musical means...Musical biography showing both his self-teaching and formal instruction and noting his large, complex, innovative, and often unconventional output from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa.../learning/grove.html?record=2227
Listing of miscellaneous songs and cycles at recmusic.org, some with texts.
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Henry Dixon Cowell (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, Mélodies, Chansons and other Classical Vocal Music) Translators and other volunteers Contact Information Copyright Statement Partial Bibliography Emily's Homepage Emily's Amazon wishlist Please visit Artsconverge, a Lieder-related web-project on which I once did some work. Composer: Henry Dixon Cowell (1897-1965) Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning not...