Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I -- Child to Man
• Chapter 1: Clarissa and Harry
• Chapter 2: Henry
• Chapter 3: Years of Voyage
• Chapter 4: The Turning Point
• Chapter 5: The Expanding Circle
• Chapter 6: Bi-Coastal Life
• Chapter 6: Genesis of a Theoretical System
• Chapter 8: War
• Chapter 9: The Selling of Henry
• Part II -- International Ultramodernist Virtuoso
• Chapter 10: Henry at 25
• Olive
• Chapter 11: Conquering Europe, First Attempt (1923)
• Chapter 12: Attacking the American Market
• Chapter 13: Theories, Rationales, Defenses
• Chapter 14: Europe Again (1926)
• Chapter 15: Making It in America, II
• Chapter 16: Europe, Third Act (1929)
• Chapter 17: Delivering the Baby -- New Musical Resources
• Chapter 18: New Projects and old, 1929-1931
• Part III -- The Frenetic Years
• Chapter 19: Europe, IV
• Chapter 20: American Interlude
• Chapter 21: Europe, V
• Chapter 22: The End of Virtuosity
• Chapter 23: The New Technology -- the Rhythmicon
• Chapter 24: The New Technology -- Recording
• Chapter 25: The New Technology -- Radio
• Chapter 26: The New Technology -- Film
• Chapter 27: International Exchange Concerts
• Chapter 28: Death of the PAAC
• Chapter 29: Surveying American Music
• Chapter 30: Surveying the Larger Musical World
• Chapter 31: Dance
• Chapter 32: Propagating World Music
• Chapter 33: Music and Politics
• Chapter 34: Henry and his Colleagues
• Chapter 35: New Friends, Character Studies
• Chapter 36: Old Friends and a Doomed Romance
• Chapter 37: Fincancing a Life
• Chapter 38: Compositions
• Chapter 39: Henry at Thirty-Nine
• Part IV -- Four Endless Years
• Chapter 40: Life Stops
• Chapter 41: The Hearing
• Chapter 42: Arriving and Adjusting
• Chapter 43: Waiting
• Chapter 44: The Second Day of Reckoning
• Chapter 45: Living With It
• Chapter 46: Living With It (continued)
• Chapter 47: The Melody Book
• Chapter 48: More Ideas
• Chapter 49: Toward the Exit
• Part V - Life Resumes
• Chapter 50: The First Six Months
• Chapter 51: Turning Point
• Chapter 52: Problem Solved
• Chapter 53: A Job at Last
• Chapter 54: End of an Era
• Chapter 55: The War Effort
• Chapter 56: Old Friendships Renewed
• Chapter 57: Simplicity and Commentary
• Chapter 58: Figs
• Chapter 59: A Settled Life
• Chapter 60: Creations and Collaboration
• Chapter 61: Europe, VI
• Part VI -- World Traveler
• Chapter 62: The Big Trip, I
• Chapter 63: The Big Trip, II
• Chapter 64: Iran, I
• Chapter 65: India, I
• Chapter 66: Iran, II
• Chapter 67: Change of Plans
• Chapter 68: A New Radicalism
• Chapter 69: Asia Again
• Chapter 70: 1961-63
• Chapter 71: The Honored Citizen
• Chapter 72: The Cold War
• Chapter 73: Last Ideas
• Chapter 74: 1963-4
• Chapter 75: The Final Chapter
• Chapter 76: Who Was Henry?
• Postlude
• Notes
• Bibliography