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Cowell, Henry

Year: 1928
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “Four Little Known Modern Composers.” Aesthete Magazine, August 1928, p. 1, 19-20.
Source: Magazine
VI. Topical Studies
E. Comparisons and Relationships with Other Composers, Artists, and Writers
Year: 1928
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “New Terms for New Music.” Modern Music 5/4 (May--June 1928): 21--27.
Notes:

Uses chords in <i>Premonitions </i>as examples of poly--harmonic succession.

Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
E. Comparisons and Relationships with Other Composers, Artists, and Writers
Year: 1929
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “Who Are the Composers in America.” Musvkai Revoliutsiia [Music and Revolution, Moscow] (1929).
Source: Journal
Reprints:

Cowell, Henry. “Who Are the Composers in America?” <i>Russkv <br></i><i>Golos New York </i>(February 23, 1930).

VI. Topical Studies
E. Comparisons and Relationships with Other Composers, Artists, and Writers
Year: 1930
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “Bericht aus Amerika. 2. Die beiden wirklichen Amerikaner: Ives and Ruggles.” Melos 9 (October 1930): 417-420.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
E. Comparisons and Relationships with Other Composers, Artists, and Writers
Year: 1930
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “Music: Three Native Composers.” New Freeman 1, May 3, 1930, 184-186.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
E. Comparisons and Relationships with Other Composers, Artists, and Writers
Year: 1930
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. New Musical Resources. New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf Co., 1930.
Source: Book
VI. Topical Studies
P. Ives Collaborators and Colleagues
Year: 1931
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “The Development of Modern Music.” Ohio State Uni-versity Bulletin 36/3 (September 15, 1931): 375--379.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
H. Ives, 20th Century Music, and Experimental Styles
Year: 1932
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “American Composers.” In Proceedings of the Ohio State Educational Conference: Twelfth Annual Session, April 7-9, 1932, 377-379.
Source: Chapter in Book
VI. Topical Studies
E. Comparisons and Relationships with Other Composers, Artists, and Writers
Year: 1932
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “Who Writes in the Idiom of America?” San Francisco Examiner. August 14, 1932, sec. E: 6.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
E. Comparisons and Relationships with Other Composers, Artists, and Writers
Year: 1933
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “Trends in American Music.” In American Composers on American Music, edited by Henry Cowell, 3-13. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1933.
Source: Chapter in Book
VI. Topical Studies
L. Ives and America
Year: 1933
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “Who is the Greatest Living Composer?” Northwest Musical Herald. January 1933: 55.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
E. Comparisons and Relationships with Other Composers, Artists, and Writers
Year: 1933
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “Toward Neo-Primitivism.” Modern Music X, 3 (March-April 1933): 150-153.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
H. Ives, 20th Century Music, and Experimental Styles
Year: 1933
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “Europe and America in Music Today.” Modern Music X, 2 (January-February 1933): 95.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
S. Reception Studies and Related Scholarship
Year: 1934
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “Recent Creative Tendencies in American Music.” Sovietskaya Muzyka [Soviet Music] VII (June 1934): 3-19.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
H. Ives, 20th Century Music, and Experimental Styles
Year: 1934
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “Music.” Americana Annual: An Encyclopedia of Current Events (1934): 393.
Source: Chapter in Book
VI. Topical Studies
E. Comparisons and Relationships with Other Composers, Artists, and Writers
Year: 1952
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “On Programming American Music.” Music Clubs Magazine 31/5 (May 1952): 23.
Source: Magazine
VI. Topical Studies
E. Comparisons and Relationships with Other Composers, Artists, and Writers
Year: 1954
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “The Music and Motives of Charles Ives." Center 1 (August-September 1954): 2-5.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
G. Music Theory Analyses
Year: 1963
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. “Homage to Charles Ives.” In Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, No. 13 (1963): 263.
Source: Chapter in Book
VI. Topical Studies
E. Comparisons and Relationships with Other Composers, Artists, and Writers
Year: 2001
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry. Essential Cowell: selected writings on music. Edited by Dick Higgins. Kingston, NY: Documentext, 2001.
Source: Book
VI. Topical Studies
E. Comparisons and Relationships with Other Composers, Artists, and Writers

Cowell, Henry and Sidney

Year: 1955
Complete Citation:
Cowell, Henry and Sidney. Charles Ives and His Music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1955.
Notes:

From 1969 Second Edition: Additions include “Some Corrections and Amplifications,” “List of Published Compositions,” “List of Re-corded Compositions,” and “Additional Entries” ap-pended to the bibliography. * From 1971 Spanish translation: Prologue by Juan Carlos Paz especially for this edition (p. 5-22) entitled “Charles E. Ives, un fenomeno musical. ... El musico creador mas potente y personal que haya surgido en America.” * From 1983 Third Edition: Includes a reprint of “Ivesiana: ‘More Than Something Just Usual’” as a Foreword, a “Supplementary List of Published Compositions,” a “Supplementary List of Recorded Compositions,” and a “Supplementary Bibliography.”

Source: Book
Reprints:

Cowell, Henry and Sidney. <i>Charles Ives and His Music</i>. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1966. * Cowell, Henry and Sidney. <i>Charles Ives and His Music</i>. Second Edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1969. * Cowell, Henry and Sidney. <i>Charles Ives and His Music </i>[Charles Ives y su musica]. Translated to Spanish by Floreal Mazia. Argentina: Rodolfo Alonso Editor, 1971. * Cowell, Henry and Sidney. <i>Charles Ives and His Music</i>. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1974. * Cowell, Henry and Sidney. <i>Charles Ives and His Music</i>. Translated to Polish by Andrzej Darowski. Krakow, Poland: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1982. * Cowell, Henry and Sidney. <i>Charles Ives and His Music</i>. New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1983.

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