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	Henry Cowell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cowell's endeavors with string piano techniques were the primary inspiration for John Cage's development of the prepared piano.
		Cowell pursued a radical compositional approach through the mid-1930s, with solo piano pieces remaining at the heart of his output—important works from this era include The Banshee (1925), requiring numerous playing methods such as pizzicato and longitudinal sweeping and scraping of the strings, and the manic, cluster-filled Tiger (1930), inspired by William Blake's famous poem.
		Cowell was the central figure in a circle of avant-garde composers that included his good friend Carl Ruggles, Leo Ornstein, John Becker, Colin McPhee, French expatriate Edgard Varèse, and Ruth Crawford, whom he convinced Charles Seeger to take on as a student (Crawford and Seeger would eventually marry).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Cowell (3119 words)

	The Tides of Manaunaun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The work is the most famous and widely played of Cowell's many tone cluster pieces, which he performed during tours of North America and Europe from the early 1920s through the mid-1930s.
		Cowell himself would record the original version at least twice--for Pleyel piano roll in the 1920s and for Folkways in the 1960s.
		The Harp of Life (1924), Cowell said, "is another in the suite based on the early Irish mythological opera," as, he explained, were The Voice of Lir (1920) and The Trumpet of Angus Og (1918–24).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Tides_of_Manaunaun (739 words)

	Who was Henry Cowell?
		In 1849 Henry Cowell and his brother John left their home town of Wrentham, Massachusetts when the lure of gold was drawing the adventurous to California.
		Henry Cowell bought the southwest quarter of Section 8 of the Felton Quadrangle, which was later to become the site of the barrel mill in the Fall Creek Area.
		Testimony to Cowell's success in the limestone industry lies in the fact that in 1886 he was reported to have the highest income in Santa Cruz county in addition to owning 6500 acres of land in the area.
	www.parks.ca.gov /?page_id=918 (889 words)

	NMIICowell.html
		Henry Cowell was born there (Menlo Park) on March 11, 1897 and lived there during his early years, moving in 1902 to San Francisco with his parents before Harry and Clara separated.
		Austin knew Henry Cowell 15 years ago in Carmel, she said, "as a boy, a little distrait, a little unusual, one of those descendants of the great Irish kings, who was destined for fame or for the insane asylum.
		Henry Cowell came to some of their meetings and after they had sung their hymns Henry said, "You ought not to be singing those hymns.
	www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~tebo/history/early/_CowellN.Mus./NewMusic/NMIICowell.html (1384 words)

	BMOP :: Henry Cowell
		Studies of the musical cultures of Africa, Java, and North and South India enabled Cowell to stretch and redefine Western notions of melody and rhythm; mastery of the gamelan and the theory of gamelan composition led to further explorations with exotic instruments and percussion.
		Cowell's influence is legion, counting among his students John Cage, Lou Harrison, and George Gershwin.
		Cowell taught at the New School for Social Research in New York and also held posts at the Peabody Conservatory and Columbia University.
	www.bmop.org /musicians/composer_bio.aspx?cid=112 (263 words)

	GUEST OPINION: The mystery of Henry Cowell's imprisonment explained (August 05, 1998)
		Cowell's international fame had brought unprecedented coverage to the case, even by the Hearst newspapers, for whom sex crimes among less prominent people were almost daily fare.
		Cowell would have almost no access to a piano and, with neither desk nor table in his cell, could compose only on score paper laid on a book.
		Cowell found himself immersed in music when he was transferred in order to work with the bandmaster in the prison's education department.
	www.almanacnews.com /morgue/1998/1998_08_05.gstopn05.html (773 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Henry Cowell Musical Autobiography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry tells us that “Set of Five” was composed for Anahid and Maro Ajemian, and the talks about the five movements, the unusual percussion, the strings of the piano, its use of ‘tone clusters’ and how this piece is different from a usual violin, piano & percussion piece.
		Henry tells us that it was his first symphony to be actually be performed, that symphonies 1-3 were still in their ‘virgin states’ & that #4 was written for the Boston Symphony.
		Henry Cowell announces himself and that we have just been listening to his “7 Symphony” as conducted by William Strickland with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and concludes the program and gives his thanks.
	www.archive.org /audio/audio-details-db.php?collectionid=HenryCowell&collection=other_minds (872 words)

	Wisconsin Folk Music 1937 — Sidney Robertson Cowell Collecting in Wisconsin
		She became engaged to American composer Henry Cowell while he was serving a sentence in San Quentin Penitentiary on sexual misconduct charges.
		Henry Cowell, she still made occasional song collecting trips with Henry, but most of her time was spent helping him with his publishing obligations.
		“Henry soon felt this was a waste of his time and handed me his pencil and notebooks saying, ‘You try!’”9 She did, and eventually found herself embroiled in helping Ives cull his memory and find his papers.
	csumc.wisc.edu /src/collector.htm (2136 words)

	Michael Hicks / Henry Cowell, Bohemian
		In this first full-length study of Henry Cowell, Michael Hicks shows how the maverick composer, writer, teacher, and performer built his career on the intellectual and aesthetic foundations of his parents, community, and teachers--and exemplified the essence of bohemian California.
		One of the first American composers to be celebrated for the novelty of his techniques, Cowell popularized a series of experimental piano-playing techniques that included pounding his fists and forearms on the keys and plucking the piano strings directly to achieve the exotic, dissonant sounds he desired.
		Henry Cowell, Bohemian traces the venerated experimentalist's radical ideas back to his teachers, including Charles Seeger, Samuel Seward, and E. Stricklen, the tightknit artistic communities in the San Francisco Bay area where he grew up and first started composing, and the immeasurable influence of his parents.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f02/hicks.html (357 words)

	The Music Library at The University of South Carolina
		Their home was a cottage in a rural area southeast of San Francisco; Henry Cowell was born there, and it remained his principal base until 1936.
		Cowell's formal début as a composer-pianist took place on 5 March 1914, in a concert promoted by the San Francisco Musical Club; included in the programme was Adventures in Harmony (1913).
		Cowell's efforts on behalf of other contemporary composers were many: he founded the New Music Society of California in 1925, and controlled the Pan American Association of Composers for much of its existence (1928-34).
	www.sc.edu /library/music/hc_bio.html (1534 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Cowell, Henry
		Aeolian Harp (1923) was one of Cowell's first pieces to require performers to manipulate the strings of a piano directly, a practice later associated with the "prepared piano" technique of Cowell's student, John Cage.
		Cowell was an untiring advocate of contemporary music and frequently acted as mentor to other composers.
		In 1941 Cowell married Sidney Hawkins Robertson, an ethnomusicologist who had lobbied for his release and with whom he was to collaborate on a study of Charles Ives.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/cowell_h.html (919 words)

	Henry Cowell - Dancing with Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cowell came up with the idea of using flexible musical forms, which maintained the integrity of the pieces while allowing the choreographer to invert, repeat and otherwise manipulate the musical material.
		Each of the pieces on the collection of "discoveries" is a delight and it would be pedantic to describe all of them, suffice it to say that Nicole Paiement and her troupe have dipped into a gold mine.
		Cowell, thanks mainly to his writings, is still one of the most influential of American composers and much of his music remains unheard.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Cowell1.html (477 words)

	The Rhythmicon
		Cowell used his rythmicon to accompany a set of violin movements which he had written for the occasion....
		Cowell wrote two works for the Rythmicon "Rythmicana" and "Music for Violin and Rythmicon" (a computer simulation of this work was reproduced in 1972).
		Cowell lost interest in the machine, transfering his interest to ethnic music and the machine was mothballed.
	www.obsolete.com /120_years/machines/rhythmicon (569 words)

	Art of the States: Exultation
		Composer, performer, teacher, and ethnomusicologist Henry Cowell (1897-1965) was a champion of new music in the first half of the 20th century.
		In 1936, Cowell was brought to court on a morals charge and sentenced to imprisonment at San Quentin State Prison; pressure from various sources, including fellow composers, led to his parole four years later.
		Cowell received many awards and honorary degrees and from 1951 to 1955 served as the president of the American Composers Association.
	artofthestates.org /cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=127 (762 words)

	Cowell
		Exactly when the world was hitting its modern stride, when speed was vital, Cowell was plunging listeners into the most dense piano music ever composed, even using the term cluster to describe how the piano ought to be played in his works.
		A self-taught pianist, Cowell created his own "tone clusters" by slamming his fists and forearms into the keyboard, and he introduced his innovations into early 20th century classical music by constructing compositions around them.
		Cowell provides copious resources -- percussive exuberance, rhythmic drive, melancholic and whimsical moods, mighty cluster crashes, complex counterpoints, and lilting Irish folk song melodies -- to inspire the musician, and when taken up in hands as gifted as these, they amaze and delight the listener.
	www.sarahcahill.com /recordings/Cowell/cowell.html (734 words)

	The Flying Inkpot -- Henry Cowell American Piano Concertos - Col Legno
		Henry Cowell (1897-1965) is often perceived to be a “one-trick pony”, whose sole claim to fame was the use of tone clusters (a term of his own creation) in his compositions.
		Besides tone clusters, Cowell was also responsible for starting the trend of playing on the piano strings directly, a technique that John Cage and George Crumb would later famously lay claim upon.
		Cowell orchestrated some of his piano pieces and the result is Four Irish Tales (1940) for piano and orchestra.
	inkpot.com /classical/legnocowell.html (877 words)

	Art of the States: Aeolian Harp
		After serving in the army for a year, Cowell began to attract attention as a performer, and in 1923 embarked on a series of five European tours which introduced him to many composers and musicians and gave him an international reputation.
		He was pardoned in 1942 by the governor of California at the request of the judge and prosecutor of the case.
		She is known for her performances of the cluster music of Henry Cowell, whose Concerto for Piano and Orchestra she premiered in 1978.
	www.artofthestates.org /cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=120 (866 words)

	S. H. Cowell -- Foundation History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		S. Cowell [1861-1955] lived in San Francisco where his father and uncle founded a drayage and storage business, and in Santa Cruz where his father established The Henry Cowell Lime and Cement Company.
		Cowell's sisters, Isabella and Helen Cowell, built the Lighthouse for the Blind building, donated a jade and art collection to the M. de Young Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and donated to a home for the aged.
		Cowell worked to conserve California coastal areas and gave land for the Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz.
	www.shcowell.org /about/foundhist.html (358 words)

	Bay Area Hiker: Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park
		Cowell is bigger than Muir Woods but smaller than Big Basin, and all three feature short and easy redwood promenades.
		But Henry Cowell's day use staging area and campground have separate auto access points, and no road travels through the park, so although the park gets busy, visitors are somewhat dispersed.
		Although Cowell is busiest in summer, that's a pleasant time of year to visit, particularly when there's a breeze blowing uphill from the ocean.
	www.bahiker.com /southbayhikes/henrycowell.html (2063 words)

	Henry Cowell as theorist and Critic
		If Cowell failed to fulfill his own potentials, it was because those potentials were too ambitious to be realized except by a succession of future generations.
		Cowell's ideas [in New Musical Resources] found their greatest resonance in the 1950s, the post-war era in which all aspects of music were being pervasively redefined.
		It is sad that, during these years, Cowell was largely ignored by the composers who were developing the ideas he had birthed, and given little credit for having anticipated so many post-war musical developments by over 30 years.
	home.earthlink.net /~kgann/Cowell.html (959 words)

	Henry Cowell - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bay Area native Henry Cowell (1897-1965) was a relentless innovator and musical explorer.
		The festival highlighted Cowell's influence on 20th century music with performances of works by Terry Riley, John Cage, Charles Ives, Lou Harrison, Meredith Monk, and others.
		Each song is a testament to Cowell's ability to meld his experimental compositional style with interesting and engaging music.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/henrycowell.html (373 words)

	Henry Cowell- Hymn and Fuguing Tune #18 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Among the works composed for me since 1932 Henry Cowell’s Hymn and Fuguing Tune #18 for Soprano and Contrabasso saxophones is unique.
		In the early ‘sixties both Henry Cowell and I taught during the summer session at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
		When after the concert Cowell signaled his amusement, I quipped "This might just be what you need for your next composition." That was on July 10, 1964.
	members.aol.com /tothefore2/cowell1.html (440 words)

	NM_notes.html
		Mary Austin assisted Cowell in the performance of The Banshee at that concert by holding down the damper pedal as Cowell played the piano strings.
		Armsby were on a list of sponsors for a Cowell recital on October 24, 1926 at the Fairmont Hotel ("Henry Cowell To Be Heard in Recital," San Francisco Chronicle, October 9, 1926).
		It was probably this flyer Olive Cowell had in mind when she reported to Cowell that 160 copies had been sent to local subscribers and critics, with 200 given to performers or composers involved in the concerts to distribute before the concert season.
	www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~tebo/history/early/_CowellN.Mus./NewMusic/NM_notes.html (1475 words)

	The American Music Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Henry Cowell Performance Incentive Fund is a partnership between the Henry Cowell Estate and the American Music Center.
		The purpose of the Fund is to support and encourage public performances and recordings of Henry Cowell’s music.
		A tireless musical explorer and inventor, Henry Cowell was born 11 March 1897 in Menlo Park, California, where he grew up surrounded by a wide variety of Asian musical traditions, his father's Irish folk heritage, and his mother's Midwestern folktunes.
	www.amc.net /resources/grants/cowell.html (849 words)

	classical music - andante - heady early modernism - chamber works by henry cowell
		Cowell was one of the first American composers to take a deep interest in Asian music, and many of his best pieces incorporate ideas he acquired in his study of non-western traditions.
		This recorded programme of Cowell's chamber music, one of two that the Naxos label has released simultaneously, gives a varied and well-performed overview of works composed throughout his career.
		Cowell the melodist is in prime form in the first movement of the sprightly Quartet for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and Harpsichord, composed for Sylvia Marlowe's influential ensemble.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25638 (946 words)

	The Cowell Family: The S.H. Cowell Years
		Cowell, it must be wonderful winning all these races.' He said, 'George, there's absolutely no honor in it.
		Cowell was a man that was wonderful with his employees...he never let a man go.
		The nature and locus of the Cowell family business had changed dramatically since the days when lime was brought down to Cowell wharf by huge ox-teams.
	www.santacruzpl.org /history/people/cowell5.shtml (1523 words)

	Henry Cowell Lime & Cement Co. v. State (1941) 18 C2d 169
		The question before the trial court was whether the Cowell Building encroaches on the Embarcadero to the extent of a narrow, triangular strip of land referred to as the "sliver" area, which is five feet wide at Market Street and tapers to nothing at Commercial Street.
		The land on which the Cowell Building is situated was acquired at the sale by the plaintiff's predecessors who went into possession in January, 1854, and erected a frame building on pilings, beneath which the tide ebbed and flowed.
		The easterly line of the frame building (which corresponds to the line of the Cowell Building fronting on the Embarcadero) then lay along an open area which {Page 18 Cal.2d 172} was used as a public street, and known as East Street.
	online.ceb.com /calcases/C2/18C2d169.htm (1288 words)

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