Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 600 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-575) and index. |
Contents |
Prologue : Of the three ladies, Henry, and some others -- 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. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965.
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Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965. |
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Composers -- United States -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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United States. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Sachs, Joel. Henry Cowell. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012 9780195108958 (DLC) 2011040686 (OCoLC)149136921 |
ISBN |
9780199976836 (electronic book) |
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019997683X (electronic book) |
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9781283740319 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283740311 (MyiLibrary) |
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9780195108958 |
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0195108957 |
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