New Musical Resources
by Henry Cowell
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Author: Henry CowellContributor: David Nicholls
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-04-26
ISBN: 0521499747
Number of pages: 196
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book Review: Important book for composers and others interested in new music
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is important in its own rights AND as a source for the John Cage-oriented composer and an origin to the more famous theory texts by Karlheinz Stockhausen (who never mentioned this influence, as far as I know!). It's amazing how advanced a vision the young Cowell had - he began writing the texts in 1916 at the age of 17! Maybe Stockhausen used the theories artistically more satisfying and Cage became more famous, but read the book anyway and - by the way - listen to Cowells music!
Summary of New Musical Resources
Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources has become recognized 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." For this new 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.General Books
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