Henry banshee song
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His earliest known work for "string piano" alone, i.e. He would return to the city later as a student, and establish himself there as a lecturer, eventually settling down in his mature years between Shady, New York and Manhattan In fact, as he fondly recollected, at this time Henry was a frequent visitor to the New York Public Library. After his parents divorced when he was still a child Clarissa briefly made a go of it in the city with Henry in tow. By 1924 though he had certainly spent a fair amount of time in New York. Later in life Cowell worked extensively to promote the music of Ives while Ives gave him support in return.Ĭowell had been concertizing since at least 1914 but it took a while before he was given a platform as lofty as Carnegie Hall. It would appear that both Henry Cowell and the East Coast composer Charles Ives came up with the idea of translating these clusters to large groupings on the piano around the same time, although neither of them knew of each other’s work at this stage. Tone clusters are groups of neighboring semitones played at the same time to form dissonant chords. The score pairs a lyrical folk like melody in the right hand with a left hand accompaniment of tone clusters. Perhaps the most famous of these works is The Tides of Manaunaun which was written for a musical theatrical show envisioned by Varian entitled The Building of Banba and based on his poetry cycle of the same name. He was working with extended piano techniques and combining the sounds he created with poetic evocations of Irish folklore from John Varian. As a radical teenager in a radical environment by the mid 1910s Cowell was already moving in directions that would lead towards works like The Banshee. As Henry learned piano he also learned to compose, again not in a very formal manor at first.
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It was John Varian himself and not Henry’s father who instilled in the boy a fascination with Gaelic folklore. Amongst the eclectic group of acquaintances the growing Cowell befriended were the children of theosophist John Varian. He also heard Japanese music in the city. When the family bought a property in San Francisco the young boy was given rein to explore Chinatown where he recollects listening to Chinese music. Also from an early age Cowell showed a keen interest in folk music and the music of other cultures.