The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell

ISBN-13: 9780367592189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 348 str.

Jeremy Brown

Opis

The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell studies the compositions for wind band by twentieth-century composer Henry Cowell, a significant and prolific figure in American fine art music from 1914-1965. The composer is noteworthy and controversial because of his radical early works, his interest in non-Western musics, and his retrogressive mature

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Destined to Compose for Wind Band  2. The Genesis of the Early Band Works  3. Celtic Set for Band: The Countless California Confluences  4. The Celtic Set Letters from Cowell to Grainger, 1937-1940  5. Celtic Set—Composed by Cowell, Edited by Grainger, Rescored by Goldman  6. Cowell on His Own: Sublime Wind Band Music  7. Unpublished Band Works for Friends and Fellow Prisoners, 1938-1940  8. On Parole: Compositions for Band  9. Works for Band, 1942-1950  10. "Simplification with Substance": 1950-1965  11. Conclusions

 

 

 

 

O autorze

Jeremy S. Brown is Professor of Music at the University of Calgary and the lead compiler of the Royal Conservatory of Music's inaugural Saxophone Series.