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    Henry Dixon Cowell (/ˈkaʊəl/; March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher and the husband of Sidney...
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    Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park is a state park of California, United States, preserving mainly forest and riparian areas in the watershed of the San...
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  • 1910s, two classical avant-gardists, composer-pianists Leo Ornstein and Henry Cowell, were recognized as making the first extensive explorations of the tone...
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  • Henry Cowell may refer to: Henry Cowell, an American classical music composer and pianist Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, a California State Park named...
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    The Banshee (1925) is a piano composition by American composer Henry Cowell (1897–1965). It was the first piano piece ever written to be performed entirely...
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  • String piano is a term coined by American composer-theorist Henry Cowell (1897–1965) to collectively describe pianistic extended techniques in which sound...
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    phenomenon among redwoods. About 400 are known. They can be found in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, San Francisco Botanical...
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  • " While it was generally thought that Henry Cow took their name from 20th-century American composer Henry Cowell, this has been repeatedly denied by band...
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    hdl:10079/fa/music.mss.0014.1. Cowell, Henry; Cowell, Sidney (1975). Charles Ives and his Music. Oxford University Press. p. 99. Cowell, Henry; Cowell, Sidney (1975)...
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    is named for Henry Cowell and the Cowell family, who donated the land that UCSC is built upon, previously known as the Cowell Ranch. Cowell College features...
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  • Cowell may refer to: Cowell (surname), surname origin, and people named Cowell Cowell College, California, United States Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park...
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    ethnomusicologist, collector of folk songs, and the wife of the composer Henry Cowell. She was born on June 2, 1903, in San Francisco, California, the daughter...
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    George Gershwin (category Pupils of Henry Cowell)
    studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody. He began his career as a song plugger but soon started...
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    that lacked sufficient space for a percussion ensemble. Cage has cited Henry Cowell as an inspiration for developing piano extended techniques, involving...
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    John Cage (category Pupils of Henry Cowell)
    Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives. Cage's teachers included Henry Cowell (1933) and Arnold Schoenberg (1933–35), both known for their radical...
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  • Morrow, he designed the Cowell House, commissioned by Olive Cowell and lived in by her and her son, composer Henry Cowell. The Cowell's hosted many concerts...
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    musical instrument designed and built by Leon Theremin for composer Henry Cowell, intended to reveal connections between rhythms, pitches and the harmonic...
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    Simon Phillip Cowell (/ˈkaʊəl/; born 7 October 1959) is an English television personality, entrepreneur, and record executive. He has judged on the British...
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  • This is a list of compositions by Henry Cowell. Anger Dance (1914; orig. Mad Dance) Dynamic Motion (1916; frequently misdated 1914) Three Irish Legends...
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    Lou Harrison (category Pupils of Henry Cowell)
    ultramodernist style similar to his former teacher and contemporary, Henry Cowell, but later moved toward incorporating elements of non-Western cultures...
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    a piano. Twentieth-century exponents of extended techniques include Henry Cowell (use of fists and arms on the keyboard, playing inside the piano), John...
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  • compositions of American composer Charles Ives in the early 20th century. Henry Cowell adopted Ives's ideas during the 1930s, in works allowing players to arrange...
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    Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Vivian Fine, Carl Ruggles, Henry Cowell, Carlos Chávez, John J. Becker, Henry Brant, Lou Harrison, Wallingford Riegger, and Frank...
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    the definition of what is meant by singing style. Along with composer Henry Cowell, ethnomusicologist George Herzog, Helen Heffron Roberts and Dorothy Lawton...
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  • the concept back in time to include Charles Ives, Edgard Varèse, and Henry Cowell, as well as Cage, due to their focus on sound as such rather than compositional...
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    teacher's teachers Cage (1912–1992) studied with teachers including Henry Cowell, Lazare Lévy, and Arnold Schoenberg. Beth Anderson Dawn Avery George...
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    The Tides of Manaunaun (category Compositions by Henry Cowell)
    of Manaunaun is a short piano piece in B♭ minor by American composer Henry Cowell (1897–1965). It premiered publicly in 1917, serving as a prelude to a...
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    of this group were Charles Ives, John J. Becker, Wallingford Riegger, Henry Cowell, and Carl Ruggles. Neoclassicism was a movement, especially prevalent...
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  • Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williamson, Henry Cowell, Alfred Schnittke, William Bolcom, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Andrei Eshpai...
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    played in a bar. In the 1940s, composers John Cage, Virgil Thomson, Henry Cowell, and Lou Harrison, composed a set of pieces using this same process—writing...
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