Henry Cowell (sep 27, 1897 – may 22, 1965)
Description:
"The Banshee" (1925)Experimental composer and ultra-modernist (ultra-modernism was a movement in American music that focused on developing new musical resource)
Introduced piano tone clusters (literally, playing clusters of notes with your palm, fist, or forearm) in his work, The Tides of Manaunaun (1912)
Experimented with:
New playing techniques
New textures and procedures (e.g., give each voice a different subdivision of metre)
Wrote New Musical Approaches in 1930
Published a journal called New Music
Added to timeline:
Date:
sep 27, 1897
may 22, 1965
~ 67 years