New Musical Resources
New Musical Resources
Author:
Henry Cowell
Published:
April 1996
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Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9780521496513
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Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources has become recognized as one of the few seminal technical studies to be written by a twentieth-century composer. In 1971, Virgil Thomson hailed it as "a classic." For this new edition, David Nicholls has provided an explanatory essay and annotations to Cowell's text. The essay traces the sources for the book and attempts to place Cowell's theories in the broader context of musical modernism.
- A classic text on contemporary music
- Written by one of America's most famous twentieth-century composers
- The centenary of Cowell's birth falls in 1997
Product details
April 1996Hardback
9780521496513
196 pages
217 × 142 × 21 mm
0.366kg
56 music examples
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Tone Combinations:
- 1. The influence of overtones in music
- 2. Polyharmony
- 3. Tone-quality
- 4. Dissonant counterpoint
- Part II. Rhythm:
- 1. Time
- 2. Metre
- 3. Dynamics
- 4. Form
- 5. Metre and time combinations
- 6. Tempo
- 7. Scales of rhythm
- Part III. Chord Formation:
- 1. Building chords from different intervals
- 2. Tone-clusters
- Notes on the text David Nicholls
- Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources David Nicholls.
