Henry Cowell

Henry Cowell

A Man Made of Music

Sachs, Joel (Professor of Music, The Juilliard School)

Oxford University Press Inc

09/2015

640

Mole

Inglês

9780190227920

15 a 20 dias

Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music is the first complete biography of one of the most innovative figures in twentieth-century American music. It explores in detail the complexities and impact of his life, work, and teachings.
Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Prologue: Of the Three Ladies, Henry, and Some Others ; Part I - Child to Man ; Chapter 1: Clarissa and Harry ; Chapter 2: Henry ; Chapter 3: Years of Voyage ; Chapter 4: The Turning Point ; Chapter 5: The Expanding Circle ; Chapter 6: Bi-Coastal Life ; Chapter 6: Genesis of a Theoretical System ; Chapter 8: Henry Goes to War ; Chapter 9: Marketing Henry ; Part II - International Ultramodernist Virtuoso ; Chapter 10: The Trio ; Chapter 11: Conquering Europe, First Attempt (1923) ; Chapter 12: Attacking the American Market ; Chapter 13: Europe Again (1926) ; Chapter 14: Making It in America, Scene 2 ; Chapter 15: Europe, Third Installment (1929) ; Chapter 16: New Musical Resources ; Chapter 17: New Projects and Old (1929-1931) ; Part III - The Frenetic Years ; Chapter 18: Looking beyond Europe from Berlin ; Chapter 19: American Interlude ; Chapter 20: Berlin Again ; Chapter 21: The End of Virtuosity ; Chapter 22: The New Technologies ; Chapter 23: Collapsing Dreams ; Chapter 24: American Composition or Americanist Music ; Chapter 25: Surveying the Larger Musical World ; Chapter 26: Music and Politics ; Chapter 27: Henry and His Circle ; Chapter 28: A Doomed Romance ; Chapter 29: Compositions of 1929-1936 ; Chapter 30: Thirty-Nine ; Part IV - Four Endless Years ; Chapter 31: Life Stops ; Chapter 32: The Hearing ; Chapter 33: Arriving and Adjusting: The First Summer ; Chapter 34: The Second Day of Reckoning ; Chapter 35: Living With It ; Chapter 36: Living With It (continued) ; Chapter 37: The Melody Book and Other Ideas ; Chapter 38: Toward the Exit ; Part V - Life Resumes ; Chapter 39: The First Six Months ; Chapter 40: First Turning Point ; Chapter 41: Problem Solved ; Chapter 42: End of an Era ; Chapter 43: The War Effort ; Chapter 44: Old Friendships Renewed ; Chapter 45: Figs ; Chapter 46: A Settled Life ; Chapter 47: Simplicity ; Chapter 48: Collaborations and an Ives Biography ; Chapter 49: Europe Again ; Part VI - World Traveler ; Chapter 50: The Big Trip ; Chapter 51: Iran, I ; Chapter 52: India ; Chapter 53: Iran, II ; Chapter 54: Change of Plans ; Chapter 55: A New Radicalism, 1957-1961 ; Chapter 56: Asia Again ; Chapter 57: Years of Honor, 1961-63 ; Chapter 58: The Cold War Again ; Chapter 59: Home Again, 1963-1964 ; Chapter 60: Finale ; Chapter 61: Who Was Henry Cowell? ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Selective Bibliography ; Index