Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Prologue: Of the Three Ladies, Henry, and Some Others
• 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: Henry Goes to War
• Chapter 9: Marketing Henry
• Part II -- International Ultramodernist Virtuoso
• Chapter 10: The Trio
• Chapter 11: Conquering Europe, First Attempt (1923)
• Chapter 12: Attacking the American Market
• Chapter 13: Europe Again (1926)
• Chapter 14: Making It in America, Scene 2
• Chapter 15: Europe, Third Installment (1929)
• Chapter 16: New Musical Resources
• Chapter 17: New Projects and Old (1929-1931)
• Part III -- The Frenetic Years
• Chapter 18: Looking beyond Europe from Berlin
• Chapter 19: American Interlude
• Chapter 20: Berlin Again
• Chapter 21: The End of Virtuosity
• Chapter 22: The New Technologies
• Chapter 23: Collapsing Dreams
• Chapter 24: American Composition or Americanist Music
• Chapter 25: Surveying the Larger Musical World
• Chapter 26: Music and Politics
• Chapter 27: Henry and His Circle
• Chapter 28: A Doomed Romance
• Chapter 29: Compositions of 1929-1936
• Chapter 30: Thirty-Nine
• Part IV -- Four Endless Years
• Chapter 31: Life Stops
• Chapter 32: The Hearing
• Chapter 33: Arriving and Adjusting: The First Summer
• Chapter 34: The Second Day of Reckoning
• Chapter 35: Living With It
• Chapter 36: Living With It (continued)
• Chapter 37: The Melody Book and Other Ideas
• Chapter 38: Toward the Exit
• Part V - Life Resumes
• Chapter 39: The First Six Months
• Chapter 40: First Turning Point
• Chapter 41: Problem Solved
• Chapter 42: End of an Era
• Chapter 43: The War Effort
• Chapter 44: Old Friendships Renewed
• Chapter 45: Figs
• Chapter 46: A Settled Life
• Chapter 47: Simplicity
• Chapter 48: Collaborations and an Ives Biography
• Chapter 49: Europe Again
• Part VI -- World Traveler
• Chapter 50: The Big Trip
• Chapter 51: Iran, I
• Chapter 52: India
• Chapter 53: Iran, II
• Chapter 54: Change of Plans
• Chapter 55: A New Radicalism, 1957-1961
• Chapter 56: Asia Again
• Chapter 57: Years of Honor, 1961-63
• Chapter 58: The Cold War Again
• Chapter 59: Home Again, 1963-1964
• Chapter 60: Finale
• Chapter 61: Who Was Henry Cowell?
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Selective Bibliography
• Index