New musical resources
by Henry Cowell · first published 1930
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Have a look at a book published in 1930 by the composer Henry Cowell New Musical Resources. He is imagining a future where composers can realise music directly without performers. Conlon Nancarrow realised part of Cowell's program by writing piano music note by note with a player roll punch.…
on “An Engineer Creates for Fun After a Lifetime of Workaday Rules” ↗…output. I could make a few small improvements. E.g., the proportions of tempos among the twelve voices in Study No. 37 are taken from a peculiar tuning system that apparently only appears in Cowell's New Musical Resources. Making that connection would tie in nicely to the previous section that mentions the influence of Cowell's book on Nancarrow. (I believe that connection is made in Kyle Gann's book in case anyone wants…
on “School vs. Wikipedia” ↗…organ. 1: and what are the proportions for the voices of that canon? You guessed it-- they're the ratios from a just intonation chromatic scale, which Nancarrow probably got from a book by Henry Cowell (New Musical Resources, IIRC). Edit: typos
on “The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass” ↗