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ISBN 10: 0195108957

ISBN 13: 9780195108958

Author: Joel Sachs

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 abroad. As one of the first Western advocates for World Music, he used lectures, articles, and recordings to bring other musical cultures to myriad listeners and students including John Cage and Lou Harrison, who attributed their life work to Cowell’s influence. Finally, Sachs describes the tragedy of Cowell’s life, being sentenced to fifteen years in San Quentin — of which he served four — after pleading guilty to a morals charge that even the prosecutor felt was trivial. Providing a wealth of insight into Cowell’s ideas and philosophy, Joel Sachs lays out a much-needed perspective on one of the giants of twentieth-century American music.

Henry Cowell a man made of music 1st Table of contents:

Part One Child to Man

1. Clarissa, Harry, and Their Child

2. Henry

3. Years of Voyage

4. The Turning Point

5. The Expanding Circle

6. Beginning Bi-coastal Life

7. Genesis of a Theoretical System

8. Henry Goes to War

9. Marketing Henry

Part Two International Ultramodernist Virtuoso

10. The Trio

11. Conquering Europe, First Attempt (1923)

12. Attacking the American Market

13. Europe Again (1926)

14. Making It in America, Scene 2

15. Europe, Third Installment (1929)

16. New Musical Resources

17. New Projects and Old (1929–1931)

Part Three the Frenetic Years

18. Looking beyond Europe from Berlin

19. American Interlude

20. Berlin Again

21. The End of Virtuosity

22. The New Technologies

23. Collapsing Dreams

24. American Composition or Americanist Music

25. Surveying the Larger Musical World

26. Music and Politics

27. Henry and His Circle

28. A Doomed Romance

29. Compositions of 1929–1936

30. Thirty-Nine

Part Four Four Endless Years

31. Life Stops

32. The Hearing

33. Arriving and Adjusting: The First Summer

34. The Second Day of Reckoning

35. Living with It

36. Living with It (Continued)

37. The Melody Book and Other Ideas

38. Toward the Exit

Part Five Life Resumes

39. The First Six Months

40. First Turning Point

41. Problem Solved

42. End of an Era

43. The War Effort

44. Old Friendships Renewed

45. Figs

46. A Settled Life

47. Simplicity

48. Collaborations and an Ives Biography

49. Europe Again

Part Six World Traveler

50. The Big Trip

51. Iran, I

52. India

53. Iran, II

54. Change of Plans

55. A New Radicalism, 1957–1961

56. Asia Again

57. Years of Honor, 1961–1963

58. The Cold War Again

59. Home Again, 1963–1964

60. Finale

61. Who Was Henry Cowell?

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