Jeremy Brown

The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 175mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780367592189
• ISBN-10: 0367592185
• Artikelnr.: 60068555

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Unpublished Band Works for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