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Author Brown, Jeremy (Jeremy S.), author.

Title The wind band music of Henry Cowell / Jeremy Brown
Published New York : Routledge, 2018

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Contents Cover; Title; Untitled; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations: Facsimilies of Manuscripts and Printed Music, Photographs, and Poetic Texts; Tabular Information; Foreword: From the Series Editor; Preface: From the Author; Abbreviations for Sigla; Treatment of Titles; 1 Introduction: Destined to Compose for Wind Band; A Brief Overview of American Wind Band History; Details of Cowell's Arrest and Sentencing; Prison Composer and Musician; A Note on Dating Cowell's Compositions; Isolation from the Musical Mainstream; 2 The Genesis of the Early Band Works; San Quentin State Prison
A Conspiracy of BandsmenCowell and the San Quentin Concert Band; Sidney Robertson Cowell's Views of Cowell's Band Music; The Jute Mill Works; Hypothetical Questions; 3 Celtic Set for Band: The Countless California Confluences; Discovering ""Irishness"" with the Help of Percy Grainger; Chrysanthemums; Cowell's Devotion to Writing for the Wind Band; Making Contact: Expressions of Admiration; 4 The Celtic Set Letters from Cowell to Grainger, 1937-1940; The Dialogue Begins; A Summer of Unexpected Pleasures; Grainger's Band Shell Letter of 24 August 1939; A New Cellblock Routine
Parole and Release into the Custody of GraingerThe Final Weeks at San Quentin; 5 Celtic Setâ#x80;#x94;Composed by Cowell, Edited by Grainger, Rescored by Goldman; Origins; Early Performances; Reel"" (""Interlochen Camp Reel""); Caoine; Hornpipe; A Speculation; 6 Cowell on His Own: Sublime Wind Band Music; The Cowell Approach; Air for Band; Shoonthree; The Realization of the Wind Ensemble Concept; 7 Unpublished Band Works for Friends and Fellow Prisoners, 1938-1940; Herman's Wedding March; Quaint Minuet; Crystal Set"" and ""Quaint Minuet; Vox Humana; The Exuberant Mexican: Danza Latina for Band
Christ lag in TodesbandenPolonaise by Chopin; Symphony No. 3 for Band with Strings; Easter Music; Fire and Ice; 8 On Parole: Compositions for Band; Birthday Gifts for Grainger; Blarneying Lilt; Shipshape Overture; Little Concerto for Piano and Band; Festive Occasion; Coda; 9 Works for Band, 1942-1950; Animal Magic of the Alaskan Esquimo; Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 1; Grandma's Rhumba; A Pedagogiical Study in the Spirit of Grainger; A Curse and a Blessing; 10 ""Simplification with Substance"": 1950-1965; Fantasie; Singing Band; 11 Conclusions; An Original Wind Band Scoring
An American Work Ethic and Inspiration in AdversityCowell's Transethnic Aesthetic vs. the Eurocentric Mantra; The Spiritual Power of Music and the Absence of Rage; Bibliography: Suggested Further Reading; Discography: Recorded Performances; Appendix 1: The Wind Band Works of Cowell: A Classification; Appendix 2: The Unfinished Band Works of Cowell; Appendix 3: Inventory of Letters Consulted; Appendix 4: Grainger's Letter of Support for Cowell's Parole; Appendix 5: Scoring Comparison of the Four Versions of Celtic Set; Appendix 6: A Henry Cowell / Ben Weber Curiosity
Summary "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 style'"along with notoriety for his imprisonment in San Quentin on a morals charge. Eleven chapters are organized both topically and chronologically. An introduction, conclusion, series of eight appendices, bibliography, and discography complete this comprehensive study, along with an audio playlist of representative works, hosted on the CMS website."--Provided by publisher
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965. Band music.
SUBJECT Band music (Cowell, Henry) fast
Subject Band music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- General.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Band & Orchestra.
Band music
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017048229
ISBN 9781351239240
1351239244
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