New Musical ResourcesCambridge University Press, 28 mar 1996 - 177 páginas Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources has become recognised 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'. Cowell aimed to 'point out the influence the overtone series has exerted on music throughout its history, how many musical materials of all ages are related to it, and how ... a large palette of musical materials can be assembled'. In this respect Cowell was anticipating many of the ideas to be realized in electronic music by Stockhausen and others. For this 1996 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. |
Índice
TONE COMBINATIONS | 3 |
Polyharmony | 24 |
Tonequality | 32 |
Dissonant Counterpoint | 35 |
RHYTHM | 45 |
Time | 49 |
Metre | 66 |
Dynamics | 81 |
Metre and Time Combinations | 85 |
Tempo | 90 |
Scales of Rhythm | 98 |
CHORDFORMATION | 111 |
Toneclusters | 117 |
Notes on the text | 146 |
Henry Cowells New Musical Resources | 153 |
Form | 84 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
accented note acoustical applied Arnold Schoenberg base beats Charles Seeger chart chromatic cluster chords combination complex composers composition contemporary music contrapuntal corresponding dissonant counterpoint dotted notes dynamics eighth-notes element equal equivalent Experimental Music expression familiar fifth Folder four fourth fractions fundamental tone G major given groups Henry Cowell higher overtones instruments interval lowest tone major second Major seventh material measure melody ment method metre metrical ratio minor third moving clusters music examples Music of Henry Musical Resources ninth chords notation Note Series octave overtone relationships overtone series partials Perfect played polychord polyharmony possible practice principle produce quarter-notes Quartet reference result rhythm rhythmic rubrics Schoenberg Schönberg series of overtones seventh chord simultaneous single tone sixth sliding tones sound string succession suggested tempi theory third-note time-values tion tone of scale tone-clusters tone-quality triad unaccented notes undertone series units whole note