The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell

by Jeremy Brown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367592185
• ISBN13: 9780367592189
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.9"