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Henry Cowell : a man made of music / Joel Sachs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sachs, Joel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965.
- Cowell, Henry.
- Composers--United States--Biography.
- Composers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (619 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 a
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Child to man
- pt. 2. International ultramodernist virtuoso
- pt. 3. The frenetic years
- pt. 4. Four endless years
- pt. 5. Life resumes
- pt. 6. World traveler.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 565-575) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780199939183
- 0199939187
- 9780190268015
- 0190268018
- 9781283740319
- 1283740311
- 9780199976836
- 019997683X
- OCLC:
- 818851572
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