New Musical Resources
- Author: Henry Cowell
- Date Published: March 1996
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521499743
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Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources has become recognised 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'. Cowell aimed to 'point out the influence the overtone series has exerted on music throughout its history, how many musical materials of all ages are related to it, and how … a large palette of musical materials can be assembled'. In this respect Cowell was anticipating many of the ideas to be realized in electronic music by Stockhausen and others. For this 1996 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.
Read more- 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
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- Date Published: March 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521499743
- length: 196 pages
- dimensions: 208 x 144 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.366kg
- contains: 56 music examples
- availability: Available
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.
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