Henry Cowell, The Great Experimenter: Uncovering the Catalysts that Generated a Composer’s Ultramodernist Piano Techniques

In the scholarship surrounding piano repertoire, Henry Cowell is seen as a kind of “one-hit-experimental-wonder,” being know mostly for his astonishingly progressive piece The Banshee. However, Cowell was an enigmatic composer, a diverse scholar, an influential proponent new music, as well as a musi...

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Main Author: Wathen, Chessa Catherine
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2016
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/859
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1873&context=scripps_theses