Henry Dixon Cowell (/ˈkaʊəl/; March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher and the husband of Sidney...
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Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park is a state park of California, United States, preserving mainly forest and riparian areas in the watershed of the San...
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Tone cluster (section In the work of Henry Cowell)
1910s, two classical avant-gardists, composer-pianists Leo Ornstein and Henry Cowell, were recognized as making the first extensive explorations of the tone...
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Henry Cowell may refer to: Henry Cowell, an American classical music composer and pianist Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, a California State Park named...
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ethnomusicologist, collector of folk songs, and the wife of the composer Henry Cowell. She was born on June 2, 1903, in San Francisco, California, the daughter...
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is named for Henry Cowell and the Cowell family, who donated the land that UCSC is built upon, previously known as the Cowell Ranch. Cowell College features...
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hdl:10079/fa/music.mss.0014.1. Cowell, Henry; Cowell, Sidney (1975). Charles Ives and his Music. Oxford University Press. p. 99. Cowell, Henry; Cowell, Sidney (1975)...
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The Banshee (1925) is a piano composition by American composer Henry Cowell (1897–1965). It was the first piano piece ever written to be performed entirely...
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Cowell may refer to: Cowell (surname), surname origin, and people named Cowell Cowell College, California, United States Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park...
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George Gershwin (category Pupils of Henry Cowell)
studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody. He began his career as a song plugger but soon started...
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String piano is a term coined by American composer-theorist Henry Cowell (1897–1965) to collectively describe pianistic extended techniques in which sound...
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" While it was generally thought that Henry Cow took their name from 20th-century American composer Henry Cowell, this has been repeatedly denied by band...
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This is a list of compositions by Henry Cowell. Anger Dance (1914; orig. Mad Dance) Dynamic Motion (1916; frequently misdated 1914) Three Irish Legends...
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Morrow, he designed the Cowell House, commissioned by Olive Cowell and lived in by her and her son, composer Henry Cowell. The Cowell's hosted many concerts...
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musical instrument designed and built by Leon Theremin for composer Henry Cowell, intended to reveal connections between rhythms, pitches and the harmonic...
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John Cage (category Pupils of Henry Cowell)
Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives. Cage's teachers included Henry Cowell (1933) and Arnold Schoenberg (1933–35), both known for their radical...
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that lacked sufficient space for a percussion ensemble. Cage has cited Henry Cowell as an inspiration for developing piano extended techniques, involving...
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the practice of polytempic music has its roots in the music theory of Henry Cowell, and the early practices of Charles Ives. Later on, composer Elliott...
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Simon Phillip Cowell (/ˈkaʊəl/; born 7 October 1959) is an English television personality, entrepreneur, and record executive. He has judged on the British...
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phenomenon among redwoods. About 400 are known. They can be found in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, San Francisco Botanical...
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music was publicly recognized through the efforts of contemporaries like Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison, and he came to be regarded as an "American original"...
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the definition of what is meant by singing style. Along with composer Henry Cowell, ethnomusicologist George Herzog, Helen Heffron Roberts and Dorothy Lawton...
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The Tides of Manaunaun (category Compositions by Henry Cowell)
of Manaunaun is a short piano piece in B♭ minor by American composer Henry Cowell (1897–1965). It premiered publicly in 1917, serving as a prelude to a...
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Lou Harrison (category Pupils of Henry Cowell)
ultramodernist style similar to his former teacher and contemporary, Henry Cowell, but later moved toward incorporating elements of non-Western cultures...
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Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Vivian Fine, Carl Ruggles, Henry Cowell, Carlos Chávez, John J. Becker, Henry Brant, Lou Harrison, Wallingford Riegger, and Frank...
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a piano. Twentieth-century exponents of extended techniques include Henry Cowell (use of fists and arms on the keyboard, playing inside the piano), John...
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the concept back in time to include Charles Ives, Edgard Varèse, and Henry Cowell, as well as Cage, due to their focus on sound as such rather than compositional...
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into one ensemble timbre or sound mass. Explored by Charles Ives and Henry Cowell in the early part of the twentieth century, this technique also developed...
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of this group were Charles Ives, John J. Becker, Wallingford Riegger, Henry Cowell, and Carl Ruggles. Neoclassicism was a movement, especially prevalent...
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for a time was associate editor of the New Music Quarterly, founded by Henry Cowell, whom he had first met in 1928. He returned to teaching at Barat College...
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