Henry Cowell : a man made of music / by Sachs, Joel

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Henry Cowell, bohemian / by Hicks, Michael, 1956-

American composers on American music; a symposium. by Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965

Charles Ives and his music / by Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965

The American innovator

Table of Contents: “…Griffes (5:05) -- Playing for time / Milton Babbitt (3:01) -- Exultation / Henry Cowell (2:32) -- Prelude / Conlon Nancarrow (1:18) -- It takes twelve to tango / Milton Babbitt (2:31) -- Vestiges / Henry Cowell (4:02) -- Bacchanale / John Cage (8:55) -- Study no. 20 / Charles Ives (6:57) -- The fountain of Acqua Paola : op. 7, no. 3 / Charles T. …”

Composers' voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral history of American music / by Perlis, Vivian

Table of Contents: “…Leo Ornstein ; Edgard Varèse ; Carl Ruggles ; Dane Rudhyar ; Charles Seeger ; Henry Cowell -- On the jazz age and George Gershwin -- With a French accent: Nadia Boulanger -- From the Boulangerie. …”

Composers voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral history of American music / by Perlis, Vivian, Van Cleve, Libby

Table of Contents: “…Leo Ornstein ; Edgard Varèse ; Carl Ruggles ; Dane Rudhyar ; Charles Seeger ; Henry Cowell -- On the jazz age and George Gershwin -- With a French accent : Nadia Boulanger -- From the Boulangerie. …”
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12 x 11 : piano music in twentieth century America /

Table of Contents: “…Playing for time / Milton Babbitt -- Mobile / Leslie Bassett -- Variations for Agnes / Fred Coulter -- Dream images / George Crumb -- Prelude and fugue II (C minor) / David Diamond -- Souvenir / Richard Faith -- Medley / Ross Lee Finney -- Homage to Milhaud ; Reel : homage to Henry Cowell / Lou Harrison -- Three love songs / Nelson Keyes -- Notturno : Bellagio adagio / Halsey Stevens -- Four piano pieces / Bruce Wise.…”

American festival.

Table of Contents: “…Overture to Candide / Leonard Bernstein (4:27) -- Newsreel / William Schuman (7:06) -- The unanswered question / Charles Ives (5:39) -- If--then / Roger Ruggeri (3:30) -- Fanfare for the common man (3:52) ; Variations on a Shaker melody : from the ballet Appalachian spring (3:30) / Aaron Copland -- Adagio for strings / Samuel Barber (9:44) -- Saturday night at the firehouse / Henry Cowell (5:03) -- The circus band march / Charles Ives (2:05).…”

Charles Ives in the mirror : American histories of an iconic composer / by Paul, David C., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…: Ives and his first publics, 1921-1934 -- Songs of our fathers : the advocacy of Henry Cowell and the appeal of the American past, 1927-1947 -- Winning hearts and minds : Ives as Cold War icon, 1947-1965 -- The prison of culture : Ives, American studies, and intellectual history, 1965-1985 -- Musicology makes its mark : Ives and the history of style, 1965-1985 -- Ives at century's turn -- Postscript : "So what do you think about Ives?"…”
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Variations on America / by Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981, Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990, Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965, Ives, Charles, 1874-1954, Paulus, Stephen, Still, William Grant, 1895-1978

Table of Contents: “…Preamble (for a solemn occasion) / Aaron Copland (5:38) -- Variations on "America" : S 140 (8:57) ; Adeste fidelis : S 131 (4:15) ; Fugue, S 136 (5:09) ; Fugue, S 135 (3:36) / Charles Ives -- Hymn and fuguing tune : no. 14 / Henry Cowell (7:22) -- Reverie / William Grant Still (4:44) -- Prelude and fugue (8:23) ; Wondrous love : op. 34 (8:30) / Samuel Barber -- Triptych / Stephen Paulus (14:40).…”
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American composers of today : 23 piano pieces imparting appreciation of contemporary music.

Table of Contents: “…Duet / Milton Babbitt -- Intermezzo / Arthur Berger -- March of the puppets / Sol Berkowitz -- Game / Norman Cazden -- Toccatina / Henry Cowell -- Prelude / Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco -- Night song / Norman Dello Joio -- The small sad sparrow / Vivian Fine -- Walk / Miriam Gideon -- Little suite : for piano / Lou Harrison -- Lullaby / Alan Hovhaness -- Starscape / Robert Helps --Noel far from home / Jan Meyerowitz -- A child's daydream / Charles Mills -- A mood / Hall Overton -- Parade / Joseph Prostakoff -- Echo / Karol Rathaus --Waltz for Brenda ; Little piece / Roger Sessions -- Pastoral / Nicolas Slonimsky -- Above, below and between / Robert Starer -- Prelude / William Sydeman -- Lyric piece / Ben Weber.…”

Ralph Kirkpatrick : letters of the American harpsichordist and scholar / by Kirkpatrick, Ralph

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: "The Glowing of Such Fire"-A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick / [by Eliot Fisk] -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Family. 1 Selected Letters to Family -- Part Two: Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence; 2 Nadia Boulanger; 3 Alexander Mackay-Smith; 4 Wanda Landowska; 5 John Challis; 6 Serge Koussevitzky; 7 Oliver Strunk; 8 Roger Sessions; 9 Harold Spivacke; 10 Steinway & Sons; 11 New York Times; 12 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; 13 John Kirkpatrick; 14 Alexander Schneider; 15 Otto Luening; 16 Donald Boalch; 17 John Hamilton; 18 Thornton Wilder; 19 Lincoln Kirstein; 20 Arthur Mendel; 21 Edward Steuremann; 22 Frank Martin; 23 Olin Downes; 24 Albert Fuller; 25 Elliott Carter; 26 Quincy Porter; 27 Vincent Persichetti; 28 Henry Cowell; 29 Mel Powell; 30 Bengt Hambraeus; 31 Alec Hodson; 32 Paul Fromm; 33 Wolfgang Zuckermann; 34 Kenneth Gilbert; 35 Mr. and Mrs. …”
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Ralph Kirkpatrick : letters of the American harpsichordist and scholar / by Kirkpatrick, Ralph

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: "The Glowing of Such Fire"-A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick / [by Eliot Fisk] -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Family. 1 Selected Letters to Family -- Part Two: Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence; 2 Nadia Boulanger; 3 Alexander Mackay-Smith; 4 Wanda Landowska; 5 John Challis; 6 Serge Koussevitzky; 7 Oliver Strunk; 8 Roger Sessions; 9 Harold Spivacke; 10 Steinway & Sons; 11 New York Times; 12 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; 13 John Kirkpatrick; 14 Alexander Schneider; 15 Otto Luening; 16 Donald Boalch; 17 John Hamilton; 18 Thornton Wilder; 19 Lincoln Kirstein; 20 Arthur Mendel; 21 Edward Steuremann; 22 Frank Martin; 23 Olin Downes; 24 Albert Fuller; 25 Elliott Carter; 26 Quincy Porter; 27 Vincent Persichetti; 28 Henry Cowell; 29 Mel Powell; 30 Bengt Hambraeus; 31 Alec Hodson; 32 Paul Fromm; 33 Wolfgang Zuckermann; 34 Kenneth Gilbert; 35 Mr. and Mrs. …”
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Ralph Kirkpatrick : letters of the American harpsichordist and scholar / by Kirkpatrick, Ralph

Table of Contents: “…Vincent Persichetti ; 28. Henry Cowell ; 29. Mel Powell ; 30. Bengt Hambraeus ; 31. …”
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The great American piano marathon.

Table of Contents: “…Pastorale / Percy Grainger (11:47) -- Three Sonnets: I / Aaron Copland (1:55) -- Three Sonnets: II / Aaron Copland (2:30) -- Three Sonnets: III / Aaron Copland (3:29) -- Amiable Conversation / Henry Cowell (1:02) -- Valse pour les petits lectuers du Figaro / Igor Stravinsky (1:04) -- Sonata: Death of Machines: I / George Antheil (00:27) -- Sonata: Death of Machines: II / George Antheil (00:34) -- Sonata: Death of Machines: III / George Antheil (00:25) -- Sonata: Death of Machines: IV / George Antheil (00:47) -- Poems of the Sea: II. …”
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Sounds of war : music in the United States during World War II / by Fauser, Annegret

Ruth Crawford Seeger : a composer's search for American music / by Tick, Judith

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A Celebration of American music : words and music in honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock /

Table of Contents: “…Wiley's waltz / Robert Starer -- Soliloquy for organ / Dorothy Klotzman -- Roy Harris : the story of an Oklahoma composer who was born in a log cabin on Lincoln's birthday / Nicolas Slonimsky -- A conversation with Alfred Frankenstein about Henry Cowell's New music / Rita H. Mead --Virgil Thomson's Harvard years / Carol J. …”

Lou Harrison / by Miller, Leta E.

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